Archive for the 'War' Category
Louisiana: Two Sheriff’s Deputies Dead, Two Others Wounded In Shootouts; Five People in Custody
August 16th, 20127 Arrested in Probe of Louisiana Shootings that Left 2 Deputies Dead, 2 Wounded Via: AP / Washington Post: A man accused of making threatening comments about law officers in Nebraska was one of seven people arrested in connection with the shootings of four Louisiana sheriff’s deputies, including two who were killed, state police said […]
Unblinking Surveillance Stare: Army’s 7-Story Flying Football Field-Sized Blimp
August 15th, 2012Via: Network World: The U.S. Army has a 7-story flying football field-sized blimp with a 21-day unblinking surveillance stare. The LEMV, described as a “Revolutionary ISR Weapon System” completed a successful 90-minute test flight directly over New Jersey where the fiery Hindenburg disaster happened. … The high tech blimp’s “skin” is made from “a blend […]
Israeli Soldier, Who Killed Two Women Fleeing Fighting Under White Flag, Sentenced to 45 Days in Jail
August 14th, 2012Via: Los Angeles Times: An Israeli soldier who was indicted two years ago in the fatal shooting of two Gaza Strip women during the 22-day military offensive Operation Cast Lead has agreed to a plea bargain in which he will serve 45 days in jail for illegal use of a weapon, Israeli Army Radio reported […]
Kaspersky Asks for Help with Decrypting Gauss Payload
August 14th, 2012Via: Kaspersky Lab – SecureList: There are many remaining mysteries in the Gauss and Flame stories. For instance, how do people get infected with the malware? Or, what is the purpose of the uniquely named “Palida Narrow” font that Gauss installs? Perhaps the most interesting mystery is Gauss’ encrypted warhead. Gauss contains a module named […]
America’s Secret Drone War in Africa
August 13th, 2012Via: Wired: More secret bases. More and better unmanned warplanes. More frequent and deadly robotic attacks. Some five years after a U.S. Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flew the type’s first mission over lawless Somalia, the shadowy American-led drone campaign in the Horn of Africa is targeting Islamic militants more ruthlessly than ever. Thanks to media […]
AntiLeaks Group Claim Responsibility for WikiLeaks Attacks
August 11th, 2012Operational Mirror as of 12 August 01:30 NZ time. Via: Register: The WikiLeaks website has been under a major DDoS attack over the last few days and a group calling itself AntiLeaks has claimed responsibility. “We are young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with […]
Gauss: Another Cyber-Espionage Toolkit Based on Flame Platform
August 9th, 2012Via: Kaspersky Lab: While analyzing the Flame malware that we detected in May 2012, Kaspersky Lab experts identified some distinguishing features of Flame’s modules. Based on those features, we discovered that in 2009, the first variant of the Stuxnet worm included a module that was created based on the Flame platform. This indicates that there […]
Kamikaze Drones
August 9th, 2012Via: Army Technology: From the earliest days of military bomb-disposal robotics, their very purpose embraced the possibility that they may be damaged or destroyed during their mission, while protecting the lives of humans who would otherwise be doing the job. But the great expense involved in their development and production meant that every precaution possible […]
DARPA Receiver Hits 0.85 Terahertz
August 5th, 2012Via: U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: DARPA researchers have created the world’s first solid state receiver to demonstrate gain at 0.85 terahertz (THz). This is the latest breakthrough in the DARPA THz Electronics program in its quest for transistor-based electronics that will enable electronic capabilities at THz frequencies. This represents progress toward the second […]
‘And who wouldn’t want to be at the forefront of that?’
August 3rd, 2012Business is booming for terminator drone pilots. Via: Guardian: The electronic cavern is dark, save for the glow of consoles, and Lt Col Mike Weaver surveys his apprentice warriors with satisfaction as they project American might halfway around the world. One crew – two young men in flight suits seated before half a dozen screens […]
