Penguin: Top LulzSec hacker an FBI informant

Top LulzSec hacker was FBI informant Leader of Anonymous-linked group helped investigators to identify fellow hackers, as five others charged in New York. Read full story. Phi Beta Iota:  The “estimates” of damages continue to be grotesquely inflated.  The various governments continue to focus on enforcing archaic laws rather than demanding the upgrade of archaic …

DefDog: NASA lost ‘full control’ to hackers, pwned 13 times last year

NASA lost ‘full control’ to hackers, pwned 13 times last year Houston still has a problem with security By John Leyden The Register, 5 March 2012 Cybercrooks broke into NASA’s computer systems 13 times last year gaining “full functional control” of important systems in the worse cases, according to the testimony before the US Congress …

DefDog: $15 Billion for Cyber-Command, Zero for Actual Needs + Meta-RECAP

The myths behind the spending — disavowed by true subject-matter experts, manipulated by the military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) to spend more on vaporware…. RSA Conference: On the Subject of Cyber War and Industrial Espionage Talk of an impending ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is not an uncommon image evoked during discussions of cyber threats to the critical infrastructure …

2013: The Evolving Craft of Intelligence 3.6 As Published

The Evolving Craft of Intelligence [Version 3.1] Robert David Steele There is little desire in the developed intelligence nations to see the craft of intelligence evolve in line with the revolutions in information technology and globalization. Indeed, it can safely be said that most leaders with access to intelligence services do not value them—they are …

Berto Jongman: Anonymous Takes Down CIA Website + RECAP

This refers to the external publicity site, not to any analytic or operational system. Anonymous Takes Down CIA Website Hacker group Anonymous on Friday took down the website of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), online publication PC Magazine reported. The website is still offline. “CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous,” the @YourAnonNews feed tweeted. Anonymous did …