Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years
August 17th, 2020Via: Krebs on Security: A security flaw in the way Microsoft Windows guards users against malicious files was actively exploited in malware attacks for two years before last week, when Microsoft finally issued a software update to correct the problem. One of the 120 security holes Microsoft fixed on Aug. 11’s Patch Tuesday was CVE-2020-1464, […]
ShadowGate
August 15th, 2020Under normal circumstances, before posting this, I probably would have sifted through it for a couple of days to try to verify the main points. But… Millie Weaver, the independent reporter who produced and directed the film, has just been indicted and arrested in Ohio: According to the information I obtained through my investigative inquiries […]
Who Owned the Chemicals That Blew up Beirut?
August 14th, 2020Via: Reuters: In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear — no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it. There are many unanswered questions surrounding last week’s huge, deadly blast in the Lebanese capital, but ownership should be […]
Former Military Officers Suggest Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Remove Trump by Force if He Refuses to Leave White House After Election Loss
August 12th, 2020Again, I don’t see how the U.S. can emerge from the November election without chaos. With both parties corrupt beyond imagination, and the mindless supporters of each viewing the others as mortal enemies, I think the U.S. (and the rest of the world) could be in for some serious trouble; with a generous splash of […]
Shipments of Nearly 20,000 Fake Driver’s Licenses Seized at Chicago Airport
August 10th, 2020Via: Fox: Advances in technology may have made counterfeiting more difficult but crooks keep finding a way to stay in business. In fact, federal customs officers have seized 1,513 shipments from overseas containing fraudulent documents—19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses—just at Chicago O’Hare International Airport this year through the end of June. Most of the shipments […]
Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put Over a Billion Android Phones at Risk
August 9th, 2020Via: Ars Technica: A billion or more Android devices are vulnerable to hacks that can turn them into spying tools by exploiting more than 400 vulnerabilities in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip, researchers reported this week. The vulnerabilities can be exploited when a target downloads a video or other content that’s rendered by the chip. Targets can […]
U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones
August 7th, 2020Via: Wall Street Journal: A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Anomaly Six LLC a Virginia-based […]
Saudi Hit Squad Was Sent to Toronto to Try to Kill Former Intel Official, Lawsuit Alleges
August 6th, 2020Via: TheStar: The Saudi men arrived at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on a fall day. Among them were DNA forensic experts, a senior military officer and a member of Saudi Arabia’s ministry of foreign affairs. Holding tourist visas, they approached different customs kiosks. When questioned by border officers, they said they were not together. In […]
Bill Binney: There Was No Russian Hack
August 2nd, 2020Via: Schiller Institute: Transcript
Nimbus Data ExaDrive: 100TB Capacity in 3.5 Inch Form Factor, Costs $40,000
July 31st, 2020Send a few trucksloads over. And keep’em coming. Utah Data Center: The Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. […]
