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Journal: Denial of Service Attacks on Humanitarian Sites

DDoS Attacks Continue to Plague Human Rights Sites By: Chloe Albanesius PC Magazine, 12.22.2010 WikiLeaks and Operation Payback have put distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the news recently, but independent media and human rights Web sites have been battling these attacks on a consistent basis with no easy solution in sight, according to …

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Journal: CIA WikiLeaks Task Force (aka WTF, One Down From REMF)

CIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. cables’ exposure by WikiLeaks By Greg Miller Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 12:24 AM The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task …

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Reference: Logistics Oversight as an Information Operations (IO) Mission

David Isenberg Posted: December 21, 2010 11:59 PM Huffington Post Can’t Anyone at DoD Do Oversight? Anyone at All? The perennial issue regarding private military security contractors is the degree to which they are subject to effective oversight. In that regard there is only one item in today’s news worth looking at. That is the …

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Journal: NSA Assumes It Has Been Compromised…Correct!

U.S. Code-Cracking Agency Works As If Compromised. The U.S. government’s main code-making and code-cracking agency now works on the assumption that foes may have pierced even the most sensitive national security computer networks under its guard. “There’s no such thing as ‘secure’ any more,” Debora Plunkett of the National Security Agency said on Thursday amid …

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Undersea Cables: The Achilles Heel of our Economies

Franz-Stefan Gady Foreign policy analyst, EastWest Institute Huffington Post, Posted: December 21, 2010 02:20 PM In December 2008 within milliseconds, Egypt lost 70 percent of its connection to the outside Internet. In far away India, 50 to 60 percent of online connectivity similarly was lost. In Pakistan, 12 million people were knocked offline suddenly, and …

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Journal: Understanding Iran…and the future of IO

Stakelbeck on Terror | Inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guards CBN (Christian Broadcast Network), 14 December 2010 On this week’s special edition of Stakelbeck on Terror, CBN News goes inside Iran’s fearsome Revolutionary Guards Corps with Reza Khalili, a former member who worked undercover for the CIA to bring down the Iranian regime. The Revolutionary Guards Corps …

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