With all the talk of “Internal Technical Issues”, by the NYSE, the fact remains that the day before the Stock Market crashes for 3 hours and all United Airline flights were grounded, this post on twitter by “Anonymous.” Now I am not a IT geek or Cyber-Gandolf by any stretch, but like Jimmy the Greek,…
Category: Cyber-Warfare
Amazon Spying on Reviewers? No!!
Amazon Is Analyzing the Personal Relationships of Its Reviewers This is an interesting story of a reviewer who had her reviewer deleted because Amazon believed she knew the author personally. Leaving completely aside the ethics of friends reviewing friends’ books, what is Amazon doing conducting this kind of investigative surveillance? Do reviewers know that Amazon…
Being a “Criminal” in a Mass Surveillance World
I want to warn you ahead of time, this article is extremely long and sometimes, dense. But Please, don’t give up on it! Read it all the way through, and then re-read it. After that, you will never look at cyber-security and cyber-surveillance “aka Big Brother” the same way again, I ASSURE YOU! Pay Close…
Email Security 101
Taken from the article: How to prevent the NSA from reading your Email by Raj Sabhlok It always seems to take some sort of major meltdown for people to bother to think seriously about security and privacy. Whether you’re afraid of being erroneously targeted for typing the word “bomb” one too many times or you just don’t want…
Can you Identify these Weapons of WW3?
Part of a contest you can find HERE. BTW, not a bad time to study up on types of UAV’s currently in use, since you might be seeing one in your neck of the woods soon. Just for kicks, I will list my guesses tomorrow. Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
De-Constructing Hybrid Warfare
Hybrid war- does it even exist? (Original Article in NATO Review) The recent Russian intervention in Ukraine has generated much debate about the use and effectiveness of hybrid warfare, a type of warfare widely understood to blend conventional/unconventional, regular/irregular, and information and cyber warfare. An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a…
Why the Average Civilian should study Asymmetrical Warfare
From the Archives, 2015. I got asked this question the other day by a close friend and it occurred to me that I had never really plainly answered that question on this blog, even though I talk about the subject frequently. I think the best way to approach this subject is through historical precedent. It…
Defeating Drones: How to Build a Thermal Evasion Suit
Posted on June 16, 2015 by Brandon Smith This article was written by Brandon Smith and the included video was a joint project between Oath Keepers and Alt-Market Asymmetric tactics rely on the idea of fighting smarter, rather than fighting directly, against a larger or more technologically advanced aggressor. It means turning your opponent’s strengths into…
Cyber-Spook Tradecraft
Originally titled Spyfiles 4 on WikLeaks, this very revealing article reveals some very nasty programs that governments around the world use to spy on their citizens. (Please be careful if you choose to download any of the files on that LINK, as the page warns, even though they have been renamed and compressed, they are still…
Beware the Ransomware!
You know, as we steadily progress into the 21st Century, I for one am seeing a lot of criminal behavior CHANGING; or should I say, EVOLVING into something much more devious and utterly mind-blowing than anyone, especially me, could have ever imagined 20 years ago. Now, you don’t need a gun and a mask to rob…