The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
US lacks serious cyber intelligence Study says US government, business need to kick network security up a notch Michael Cooney Network World, 12 September 2011 There is an urgent need for businesses and our government to develop high-level cyber intelligence as a way to combat the unacceptable levels of online security threats because the current …
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The new normal, era persistent conflict. A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Americans live in an era of endless war Gregg Jaffe Washington Post, September 5, 2011, p. 1 Video: The attacks of September 11, 2001 forced Americans to reevaluate their views on the nation’s security. A decade later, is the country stronger and better …
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Operation Shady Rat. Sustained, silent, IP theft from 70 organizations across 14 countries. More. What we have witnessed over the past five to six years has been nothing short of a historically unprecedented transfer of wealth — closely guarded national secrets (including from classified government networks), source code, bug databases, email archives, negotiation plans and exploration details …
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Cofer Black Says Threat Posed by Hackers Same as Pre-9/11 Terrorism Public Intelligence Net, 4 August 2011 not to be confused with Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog Ex-CIA official sounds alarm about hackers’ next targets (CNN): The former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center raised concerns Wednesday about an impending “code war” in …
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We generally say this approach is the same as a sucking chest wound….. Cyberwar Plan Has New Focus on Deterrence By JULIAN E. BARNES and SIOBHAN GORMAN Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2011 The military must move from defending against major cyberattacks to deterring assaults by letting enemies know the U.S. is willing to retaliate …
Strike One was posted by Marcus Aurelius, on Petraeus and torture as an option. Here is Strike Two. East-Asia-Intel.com, July 6, 2011 CIA Director-designate Gen. David Petraeus told Congress last week that he is going to focus heavily on cyber threats to U.S. security, a focus that will likely mean greater intelligence-gathering efforts against China, …
Lawmakers slash budget for Defense Department’s information ops By Walter Pincus Congress is slowly but surely trying to get the Pentagon to cut back on its overseas information operations, most of which end up being done by contractors. The latest hint has come from the House Appropriations Committee, which has sliced about $125 million from …
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