Information Operations Newsletter V 13 N 09

PDF  (45 Pages):  ARSTRAT_IO_Newsletter_v13_no_09 1. British Cops Admit They Monitor Facebook, Twitter 2. Hacking for Change – Could Revealing Cyber Capabilities Prevent Cyber War? 3. Anonymous vs. Los Zetas: The Revenge of the Hacktivists 4. Taiwan a ‘Testing Ground’ for Chinese Cyber Army 5. U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans 6. House …

Berto Jongman: Seven Hour Al Qaeda Conference Call — NSA Missed It

Exclusive: Courier Led U.S. to al Qaeda Internet Conference by Eli Lake, Josh Rogin The Daily Beast, Aug 20, 2013 1:25 PM EDT U.S. officials followed the Internet trail of an al Qaeda courier to learn the details of an electronic conference between more than 20 of the organization’s top officials. Prior to the worldwide …

Berto Jongman: US Military SATCOM Vulnerabilities

The Future of MILSATCOM This report argues that the US’s military satellite communication systems (MILSATCOM) are becoming increasingly vulnerable to physical, electronic and cyber-attacks by those who reject the idea that space should be a conflict-free domain. Given these threats and the specter of reduced budgets, the report thus suggests that the US might want …

Review: Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation

William C. Hannas (Author), James Mulvenon (Author), Anna B. Puglisi (Author) 4.0 out of 5 stars Valuable but not first…., August 12, 2013 See first Chinese Intelligence Operations, and also War by Other Means: Economic Espionage in America as well as a plethora of articles and chapters over the past twenty years. The Chinese are …

Berto Jongman: NSA, Snowden, Suspended Beliefs (Pun), and the Sad Spectacle of Michael Hayden

Jennifer Hoelzer’s Insider’s View Of The Administration’s Response To NSA Surveillance Leaks from the and-also-the-favorites-of-the-week dept In a bit of fortuitous timing, this week we had asked former deputy chief of staff for Ron Wyden, Jennifer Hoelzer, to do our weekly “Techdirt Favorites of the Week” post, in which we have someone from the wider …

Chuck Spinney: White House Blows Iran — Again….

The Washington Jerkocracy Strikes Again by Rami G. Khouri Agence-Global, 07 Aug 2013 Rami G. Khouri is Editor-at-large of The Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. You can follow him @ramikhouri.   BEIRUT — I would love …