Dec. 13, 2012 – 11:23AM | By ARAM ROSTON | Gen. Stanley McChrystal is on the strategic advisory board of Knowledge International LLC. (Defense Department) From an office park a few miles south of Washington’s Reagan National Airport, a little-known… Read More ›
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Hacker ruined Australian military security in 3 Minutes
Author : Mohit Kumar on 12/12/2012 06:25:00 AM Some 22,300 purported student and staff records held by the Australian Defence Force Academy were stolen and published online last month. A member of the Anonymous group, known as Darwinaire, is claiming responsibility… Read More ›
For North Korea, next step is a nuclear test
Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:09 GMT Reuters By David Chance SEOUL, Dec 13 (Reuters) – North Korea rattled the world on Wednesday by putting a satellite into orbit using the kind of technology that appears to demonstrate it can develop… Read More ›
Nuclear submariner jailed for eight years for trying to pass on naval secrets to men he believed were Russian spies
Edward Devenney was told he had betrayed his country and his colleagues John Hall Wednesday, 12 December 2012 A nuclear submariner caught trying to pass on naval secrets to Russian spies has been jailed for eight years. Communications engineer Edward… Read More ›
GhostShell hackers release 1.6 million NASA, FBI, ESA accounts
Hacktivist crew signs off for Christmas By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 11th December 2012 01:19 GMT Free whitepaper – Enabling Datacenter and Cloud Service Management for Mid-Tier Enterprises The hacking collecting GhostShell has announced it has finished… Read More ›
Serbia: ambassador to NATO commits suicide
05 December, 13:31 (ANSAmed) – BELGRADE, DECEMBER 5 – Serbia’s ambassador to NATO, Branislav Milinkovic, 52, committed suicide last night at the Zaventem airport in Brussels, Serbia’s diplomatic delegation confirmed to ANSA. The sources did not indicate the… Read More ›
US and UK spooks alerted over massive Swiss data leak
Rogue IT admin plundered state secrets By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 4th December 2012 19:25 GMT Free whitepaper – A private Cloud-based approach The Swiss intelligence agency (NDB) has been warning its US and UK counterparts that… Read More ›
Kissinger and the secret spy network of old Nazis and German aristocrats ‘who plotted to overthrow West German goverment’
‘The Little Service’ was made up of many former Gestapo and S.S. men as well as titled barons and counts Kissnger even discussed with them the possibility of a coup to overthrow the government of Chancellor Willy Brandt The Little … Read More ›
Are U.S. Defense Experts Getting China Wrong? Yes on Everything
Dec. 1, 2012 – 12:56PM | By WENDELL MINNICK | TAIPEI — Are Western experts on China’s military modernization efforts misreading and downplaying the level of ambition, sophistication and just plain guts the Chinese are showing in the country’s quest… Read More ›
North Korea preparing for missile launch: Japanese media
News On Japan via Channel NewsAsia — Nov 24 US satellites have picked up signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a long-range missile, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday. North Korea moved missile parts from its military factory… Read More ›
Supporters Wail as Judge Denies Bail to Hactivist : The hack that exposed the private information of 860,000 Stratfor clients
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge refused release to one of the men accused of helping Anonymous and others hack various media, government and private-spy websites last year. Jeremy Hammond was one of five so-called hacktivists arrested… Read More ›
Report: French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy’s computers
By Julian Pecquet – 11/20/12 05:59 PM ET The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyberwarfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l’Express. The magazine reported late… Read More ›
China Challenges West for Arms Trade: ” Over the past 10 years, China has been funneling weapons to some African countries in an effort to secure oil rights “
New, Better Products on Display at Zhuhai Show Nov. 19, 2012 – 09:17AM | By WENDELL MINNICK | Comments Officers of China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) watch planes performing Nov. 13 during the ninth China International Aviation and Aerospace… Read More ›
Bomb materials, weapons found in Ridgewood home : A 60-year-old doctor with ties to the Occupy Wall Street movement
Bomb materials, weapons found in Ridgewood home Saturday, November 17, 2012 Last updated: Sunday November 18, 2012, 9:51 AM BY JEFF GREEN STAFF WRITER The Record RIDGEWOOD — A 60-year-old doctor with ties to the Occupy Wall Street movement… Read More ›
Wife of jailed SAS hero appeals to Prime Minister for help
The wife of an SAS sergeant jailed for possessing a war trophy has called on the Prime Minister to help secure her husband’s freedom. Sgt Danny Nightingale with his family By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent 9:00PM GMT 17 Nov 2012… Read More ›
Petraeus and Allen ‘asked’ Jill Kelley to wade into diplomatic row over Hulk Hogan sex tape husband’s threat to deep fry a Koran
By James Nye PUBLISHED:02:18 EST, 17 November 2012| UPDATED:09:13 EST, 17 November 2012 As far as degrees of separation go, it is safe to assume that David Petraeus, the disgraced former director of the CIA never in his life thought… Read More ›
Egypt’s Mursi to avoid Coptic ceremony, dismays Christians
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi will not attend the installation ceremony of the new Coptic pope, the church said on Friday, to the dismay of Christians who fear being sidelined in the new Islamist-led Egypt. Pope Tawadros II, will be installed… Read More ›
Low police commissioner vote turnout ‘a concern for democracy’
PCC elections condemned as ‘complete shambles’ and ‘comedy of errors’, with ‘worst turnout ever’ A poor turnout and spoilt ballot papers have left the police and crime commissioner elections in “complete shambles”, Labour have said, as David Cameron is forced… Read More ›
Petraeus tells Congress that ‘Obama administration altered CIA talking points’ on Benghazi
By Associated Press Reporter and Toby Harnden In Washington PUBLISHED:08:56 EST, 16 November 2012| UPDATED:13:09 EST, 16 November 2012 Former CIA Director David Petraeus has told Congress that the CIA believed almost immediately that al-Qaeda-linked terrorists were behind the September… Read More ›
Pressure on Cameron to block EU army HQ plans: “creation of a new European Union military command”
David Cameron faces a looming political battle to defend Britain’s veto over defence policy after France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland urged the creation of a new European Union military command “structure”. Prime Minister David Cameron gives a press conference… Read More ›
The US mounting its military presence in China’s “soft belly”
Boris Volkhonsky Nov 16, 2012 16:31 Moscow Time Photo: EPA This weekend and the beginning of the next week will witness an unprecedented rise in US diplomatic activity in the region which until lately was a “black spot” in Washington’s… Read More ›
Ancient vulnerability sparks world-wide hypegasm: “One simple trick could disable a city’s 4G phone network”.
Radio signal jamming + hint of terror threat = lots of column inches By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author Posted in Security, 16th November 2012 05:13 GMT Free whitepaper – Nemertes Research: Mobile Security Challenge Emerges A… Read More ›
NASA breach update: Stolen laptop had data on 10,000 users
Breached unencrypted laptop puts personal data of NASA employees and contractors at risk, spokesman says Jaikumar Vijayan November 15, 2012 (Computerworld) Personally identifiable information of “at least” 10,000 NASA employees and contractors remains at risk of compromise following last month’s… Read More ›
Major Data Breach in State Tax System : 3.6 million people and 650,000 businesses may have been compromised
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN CHICAGO (CN) -South Carolina’s cyber-security contractor, Trustwave, let hackers into the state tax system, compromising the personal information of 3.6 million South Carolinians, taxpayers claim in a federal class action. Lead plaintiff Amber Strautins sued Trustwave Corp…. Read More ›
China proposes a united anti-Japanese front
Irina Ivanova Nov 15, 2012 20:40 Moscow Time © Collage “The Voice of Russia” A prominent Chinese expert has called upon Moscow and Seoul, which like China have territorial disputes with Tokyo, to form a united anti-Japanese front. This front… Read More ›
Russia loses space contact
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 8:27 AM Russia on Wednesday lost the ability to send basic commands to most of its satellites and segment of the International Space Station following a vital cable failure near Moscow. The Roscosmos space agency attributed… Read More ›
Obama signs secret directive to help thwart cyberattacks
By Ellen Nakashima, Wednesday, November 14, 7:27 AM President Obama has signed a secret directive that effectively enables the military to act more aggressively to thwart cyberattacks on the nation’s web of government and private computer networks. Presidential Policy… Read More ›
Jane Harman and Israeli Spying : NSA wiretap in 2005 had picked up Harman promising a suspected Israeli agent that she would aid people indicted for espionage on behalf of Israel
Possible New CIA Director Already Politically Compromised Jane Harman and Israeli Spying by ALISON WEIR It is astounding to find that one of the handful of prospects being floated to become CIA director following the fall of General David Petraeus… Read More ›
NASA Suffers “Large” Data Breach Affecting Employees, Contractors, and Others
POSTED BY: Robert N. Charette / Wed, November 14, 2012 Yesterday, NASA sent a message to all NASA employees informing them of a data breach involving an agency stolen laptop. According to the NASA message posted at SpaceRef.com, “On October… Read More ›
David Petraeus affair: Florida twins courted generals and racked up millions in debt
Twin Florida socialites Jill Kelley and Natalie Khawam have emerged at the centre of the David Petraeus affair. Jon Swaine investigates their high-rolling lifestyles and access to America’s elite. Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday. Photo:… Read More ›
Petraeus sex’n’menaces webmail trail leads to NATO A’stan General, Spook, soldier, G-man embroiled with adulterous minx duo (Broadwell’s computer, had secret documents)
By John Leyden Posted in Security, 13th November 2012 16:37 GMT Free whitepaper – Nemertes Research: Mobile Security Challenge Emerges The top US Army commander in Afghanistan has been dragged into an investigation that led to the resignation of former… Read More ›
Gen. John Allen investigated for emails to Petraeus friend
latimes.com The top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is under investigation for alleged “inappropriate communications” with a woman who is said to have received threatening emails from Paula Broadwell, the woman with whom Petraeus had an extramarital affair…. Read More ›
$2 billion ‘theft’ of Zimbabwe’s diamonds
Allies of President Robert Mugabe have carried out the “biggest single plunder of diamonds” since the days of Cecil Rhodes, stealing Zimbabwean gems worth $2 billion (£1.26 billion) over the last four years, according to a new study. Zimbabwe’s Marange… Read More ›
Eric Holder ‘knew of David Petraeus affair’ for months but kept it secret until the day of the American election?
The crisis over General David Petraeus’s resignation reached President Barack Obama’s cabinet for the first time on Monday as it was alleged that the US attorney general knew about the affair for months but kept it secret until the day… Read More ›
Did Petraeus mistress reveal new Benghazi details?
Engineering Evil: Initial video used by the FP was removed. We had to find a duplicate: Prisoner detail begins at about 1:17 Posted By Blake Hounshell Sunday, November 11, 2012 – 9:56 PM So here is a bizarre twist in the David… Read More ›
CIA denies claim from Petraeus’ girlfriend that Benghazi annex held Libyan prisoners
Posted By Neil Munro On 2:12 AM 11/12/2012 @ 2:12 AM In DC Exclusives,DC Exclusives – Blurb,Featured,Politics,World | The Central Intelligence Agency denied charges Sunday that its annex in Benghazi, Libya secretly held a few jihadi prisoners until it was… Read More ›
The Hack on Stratfor / from Jan 2012 with video
Reposted in regards to the david petraeus affair January 11, 2012 | 1400 GMT By George Friedman In early December I received a call from Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice president of intelligence. He told me he had received information… Read More ›
The former chief of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement South Florida gets nearly 6 years in prison over child porn
Broward Sheriff’s Office Anthony V. Mangione is shown in a booking photo. By NBCMiami.com MIAMI — The former chief of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement South Florida office has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison on a… Read More ›
HSBC and Goldman Sachs held $335m of Libyan state oil money ( Gaddafi’s Billions? )
Reposted at request in regards to the HSBC Jersey offshore account scandal 26th May 2011 Update: Global Witness publishes the Libyan Investment Authority financial position as of September 2010 Read BBC Business Editor Robert Peston’s analysis of this story Listen to… Read More ›
A huge database containing the personal details of around eight million schoolchildren is being created without parents’ knowledge, it emerged today.
Warning over secret database featuring 8m children A new database created by Capita features the personal details of 8m schoolchildren, it has emerged. Photo: PA <!– remove the whitespace added by escenic before end of tag –> By Graeme Paton,… Read More ›
The Sins Of General David Petraeus
Engineering Evil: Need second confirmation on article data. Petraeus seduced America. We should never have trusted him. Michael Hastings BuzzFeed Staff posted a few minutes ago Posted Nov 11, 2012 5:43pm EST The fraud that General David Petraeus perpetrated… Read More ›
Petraeus ‘flew mistress to Paris for a trip that was funded by the government’ after he was named CIA chief
By Hayley Peterson and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:00:00 EST, 11 November 2012| UPDATED:20:26 EST, 11 November 2012 David Petreaus took his mistress with him on a government funded trip to Paris after he was named director of the Central … Read More ›
Jill Kelley, State Dept. liaison, is mystery woman Paula Broadwell harassed via email leading to FBI probe: AP
Another person who knows Kelley and David Petraeus confirmed their friendship and said she saw him often, according to The Associated Press Sunday, November 11, 2012, 3:04 PM A senior U.S. military official says the author who had an affair… Read More ›
David Petraeus: Did FBI Compromise National Security for Obama Re-election?
Broadwell was embedded with soldiers in Afghanistan for a year By Geetha Pillai: Subscribe to Geetha’s RSS feed November 11, 2012 5:59 AM GMT David Petraeus resigns as CIA director. Image: Twitter The FBI withheld the information that former director… Read More ›
Yet more security concerns emerge about Paula Broadwell’s access to Petraeus:” disregarded normal CIA security procedures”
Yet more security concerns emerge about Paula Broadwell’s access to Petraeus By Max Fisher , Updated: November 10, 2012 CIA Director David Petraeus (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Newly reported information about CIA Director David Petraeus’s alleged affair with Paula… Read More ›
Jimmy Savile abuse inquiry: third man arrested: “a former BBC producer, Wilfred De’Ath”
Jimmy Savile abuse inquiry: third man arrested Man in his 70s from Cambridgeshire, reported to be former BBC producer, arrested on suspicion of sexual offences and bailed Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk, Sunday 11 November 2012 11.04 EST Jimmy Savile is… Read More ›
Anonymous Hackers may have hacked Former CIA Director David Petraeus
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/10/2012 10:55:00 PM | CIA Director was uncovered when a woman described as close to him received harassing emails and complained to authorities. The FBI traced the emails and found that they had been sent… Read More ›
Why China seems to be fanning the flames of its row with Japan in the East China Sea
Blunt words and keen swords Nov 10th 2012 | from the print edition DESPITE a third round of talks this week, China and Japan seem no closer to ending their stand-off over the tiny, uninhabited islands known to China as… Read More ›
Paedophile scandal: Convicted North Wales care home boss is working in family-friendly hotel
10 Nov 2012 22:25 John Allen was accused of the sexual abuse of dozens of vulnerable children when he was head of a multi-million-pound care home company Pervert: In 1995 Allen was jailed for six years ©VIEWFINDER PIX-CHESTER A… Read More ›
An SAS hero has been jailed for possessing a “war trophy” pistol presented to him by the Iraqi Army for outstanding service
SAS war hero jailed after ‘betrayal’ Sgt Danny Nightingale with his wife Sally on their wedding day and, right, on duty Photo: WARREN SMITH By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent 9:00PM GMT 10 Nov 2012 Sgt Danny Nightingale, a special forces… Read More ›
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