Technology makes all secrets more difficult to keep --- not just our personal secrets but the government's as well. Again and again over the past dozen years, the methods, mistakes and misdeeds of the world's most powerful government have been unmasked by "lowly" employees convinced that what they have witnessed is wrong. From the photos at Abu Ghraib prison to the avalanche of WikiLeaks documents to the Snowden disclosures, large caches of data have been loaded onto thumb drives or burned onto wafer-thin discs --- then spread around the globe in the blink of an eye. Though the computer culprits may be prosecuted, the facts they reveal cannot be recalled or repressed. This, ultimately, may prove to be our strongest protection against the rise of the surveillance state. The same tools that strengthen it strengthen those who protest against it. Privacy is not the only illusion in the "new age" of data. Government secrecy is too. Big Brother might be watching, but he is also being watched. The question still remains --- How well is the United States prepared to repel "cyber-attacks"? You be the judge.
Gonna work out a cyber code of conduct... U.S., Chinese officials meet on cyber security issues: White House Sat Sep 12, 2015 | WASHINGTON - Senior U.S. and Chinese officials concluded four days of meetings on Saturday on cyber security and other issues, ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington later this month, the White House said.
Uncle Ferd forgot to pay the light bill an' when the power went out Granny thought the jihadis was at the doorstep... Could IS Turn Next to Cyber War? December 18, 2015 - The power is out. Gas stations are out of gas. Factories are going haywire. See also: Bangladesh Muslim Leaders Move to Counter Islamist Militants December 18, 2015 — Police in Bangladesh are tapping Islamic scholars and clerics to combat the rise of Islamist militancy in the country. The religious leaders are drafting a fatwa, or edict, condemning the activities of the Islamic State and Bangladeshi Islamist militant groups as "un-Islamic."
Good News: China Was Hacking and Reading U.S. Government Email When Hillary Was Using Unsecure, Private Server..... Good news, everyone. According to a new report from NBC, Chinese cyber attackers were hacking and reading email belonging to U.S. government officials between 2010 and 2014 (and that's just what we know about) under the code name "dancing Panda." Hillary Clinton, who was Secretary of State between 2009 and 2013, made their efforts really easy through her use of a private, unsecure email server at the time. Keep in mind, the FBI is currently conducting a criminal investigation into whether Clinton sent or received classified information on her private system. Clinton was certainly sending highly sensitive government information through her private account and the Chinese likely read it all. China's cyber spies have accessed the private emails of "many" top Obama administration officials, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official and a top secret document obtained by NBC News, and have been doing so since at least April 2010. The email grab -- first codenamed "Dancing Panda" by U.S. officials, and then "Legion Amethyst" -- was detected in April 2010, according to a top secret NSA briefing from 2014. The intrusion into personal emails was still active at the time of the briefing and, according to the senior official, is still going on.....snip~ http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiep...hillary-used-unsecure-private-server-n2037224 Gets easier when someone lets them in the door. Like Hillary and her people did.
Marines lookin' fer a few good geeks... Marines Forming New Cyberwarrior Unit Mar 29, 2016 | The Marine Corps is standing up a new unit of cyberwarriors as the global battlefield evolves to include more and more computer networks.
US Cyber command gets into the mix against ISIS... Cyber Command Gets 'First Wartime Assignment' in Fight against ISIS Apr 05, 2016 | The U.S. Defense Department's relatively new Cyber Command has received its "first wartime assignment" in the fight against the Islamic State, the Pentagon's top civilian said.
What happened to Anonymous.....I thought they said they were going to give Daesh some fits in a Cyber War?
I think they are too busy with Donald Trump, or is it white supremacist politicians...I forget. They are always going after someone...They change targets as often as Elon Musk changes his focus
I did notice they gave up real fast on the Drug Cartels.....you may be Right with them going after Trump. I wonder how they will feel should Trump.....not become the Nominee. All that time wasted if Trumps not the nominee.
Since Trump doesn't yet do fundraising other than selling Trump junk on his site and has no big campaign organization, I assume they have discovered that a denial of service attack on the shopping cart of his website really hasn't been noticed. They will move onto somebody else.
I'm sure for some money they can be bought to set Hillary out. Put out a couple of her Wall Street speeches out there and watch her go into major meltdown mode.
