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Cyber-Warfare Update: iPhone Weaknesses Made Apparent by Israeli “Digital Arms” Company

Posted on 26 August 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Apple boosts iPhone security after Israeli spyware reveals startling weaknesses (click on above link to be re-directed to source page)   Leave it to a bunch of retired Mossad Cyber-Spies to start up a “Digital Arms” Company and wreak havok on the most “secure phone on the planet”. The Silicon “Wadi” not Valley, Strikes Again!…

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Surveillance State: Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You

Posted on 25 August 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You (click on above link to be re-directed) Overall, not surprising news by a long shot but you may be shocked at the WAYS in which it can spy on you, specifically, programs like Wi-Key. Like all Technology in the tight hands tools like this could…

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Espionage Files: Brit Spies Used URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents

Posted on 29 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

A shadowy unit of the British intelligence agency GCHQ tried to influence online activists during the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests and the 2011 democratic uprisings largely known as the Arab Spring, as new evidence gathered from documents leaked by Edward Snowden shows. The GCHQ’s special unit, known as the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group…

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Understanding 4th Generation Warfare: The Real Paranoia Inducing Purpose of Russian Hacks

Posted on 28 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

For six months, starting in the fall of 2014, I investigated a shadowy online Russian propaganda operation called the Internet Research Agency. The agency has been widely reported in Russian media to be the brainchild of Evgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch and ally of Vladimir Putin. At the time, it employed hundreds of Russians in a…

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Examining Terrorist Tactics: The Jihadist Comms Toolkit

Posted on 25 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

A new report documents how extremist groups’ use of secure digital tools software has evolved. “I don’t think that there are too many [makers of encrypted communication tools who] can say that bad guys don’t use their stuff, accurately,” NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett said during the recent Defense One Tech Summit, describing ISIS’ use…

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The Surveillance State: Drones and The End of Society

Posted on 23 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The human race is on the brink of momentous and dire change. It is a change that potentially smashes our institutions and warps our society beyond recognition. It is also a change to which almost no one is paying attention. I’m talking about the coming obsolescence of the gun-wielding human infantryman as a weapon of…

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OPSEC Tradecraft: Modern Clandestine Groups Face New Challenges

Posted on 12 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

There were no mobile phones or recording devices allowed at this bizarre encounter. The digital era is perceived as posing new threats to the security of terror groups in Ireland in terms of their being tracked and covertly recorded.  Source: The Guardian Bottom Line Up Front Compartmentation via unlinking Strict anti forensic practices to mitigate…

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Deconstructing Terrorism: World-Check Terrorism Database Exposed

Posted on 30 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

A financial crime database used by banks has been “leaked” on to the net. World-Check Risk Screening contains details about people and organisations suspected of being involved in terrorism, organised crime and money laundering, among other offences. Access is supposed to be restricted under European privacy laws. The database’s creator, Thomson Reuters, has confirmed an…

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Espionage Files: Surveillance For Hire In Africa

Posted on 24 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

In July 2012, one year after the Arab Spring shook Arab regimes around the world, an email appeared in the inbox of Mamfakinch, a Moroccan online publication critical of the government. Under the subject line “dénonciation” — French for “denunciation” — was a single sentence. “Please don’t use my name or anything else, I don’t want any trouble.” And…

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Espionage Files: South Korean Intelligence Warns Of ISIS Threat To U.S. Bases

Posted on 22 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Link this article with a recent article from John Schindler at XX Committee stating that ISIS’ Cyber Arm is indeed Russian Intelligence and you have quite a different story.-SF South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a statement release on June 19 that ISIS, through its hacking network called United Cyber Caliphate, has collected…

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