Cynthia Chung: Treason in America: An Overview of the FBI, CIA and Matters of ‘National Security’

Treason in America: An Overview of the FBI, CIA and Matters of ‘National Security’  When the matter of truth is depicted as a possible threat to those that govern a country, you no longer have a democratic state. True, not everything can be disclosed to the public in real time, but we are sitting on …

Stephen E. Arnold: SolarWinds Cyber-Security Bugs Proliferating?

Does This Mean Bad Actors Are Now Riding in 10,000 SolarWinds Powered Digital Sailboats? I read “Hackers Breaking into Networks without SolarWinds, CISA Says.” The write up states that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency offered: “Specifically, we are investigating incidents in which activity indicating abuse of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens consistent with …

Stephen E. Arnold: Unprofessional Irresponsibility: AI, Cyber-Security, & Algorithms Gone Wild . . .

Cyber Security: An Oxymoron Maybe? AI neural networks are only as smart as they are programmed and the technology is still in its infancy. In other words, AI neural networks are biased and make mistakes. This is not a problem now, especially when many AI neural networks are in the experimental stage; however, as the …

Answers on OSINT for India 24 – Does Open Source Information Sharing by Secret Agencies Have Security Downsides?

Sir, as we know info sharing is the strategy in OSINT. I observed that info is majorly multi-domain i.e. whatever we collect has security implications in major domains. For example, if a SIGINT operator pounces upon some piece of grey lit that has one portion concerning diplomacy then the same part needs to be conveyed …

Evan Ellis: Chinese Security Engagement in Latin America

Chinese Security Engagement in Latin America This work looks at the range of strategic benefits to the PRC of that expanding security engagement in the hemisphere, from supporting near-term PRC goals of supporting its global commercial engagement, to utility in a possible (if undesired by all) future war. The work further examines patterns across the …