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Emphasis mine: U.S. immigration officials said on Wednesday they had arrested 55 illegal immigrants who were working at a construction site in the secure area at Dulles International Airport.
Dr. Hamre’s comments in Federal Times. The kicker: To date, most investments in new technology have not produced major productivity improvements because we have introduced new technology into unchanging organizations with inflexible operational concepts. Computers simply streamlined obsolete business practices. True productivity will come only when we break free of the current structure and let…
Incomprehensibly, there are reports that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has decided to oust fellow Rep. Jane Harman of California in January as the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Mrs. Pelosi intends to replace Mrs. Harman in her Intelligence Committee leadership role with Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida, who, depending…
Spooky86 sends out a Warning Report: From today’s Financial Times comes word that North Korea may be planning a test-launch of its Tapeo Dong 2 (TD-2) missile from a test site along its northeastern coast. A test launch of the missile’s medium-range predecessor (designated the TD-1) created an international incident in 1998, when the missile…
WaPo associated editor Robert Kaiser tries to justify the publication of secrets. The gem: Labeling something “classified” or important to “national security” does not make it so. The government overclassifies with abandon. And the definition of “national security” is elusive. Some politicians act as though revealing any classified information threatens our nation’s security, but that…
Via Powerline: All that paper, all those hard drives, all those unanswered questions, so little time . . . What’s that you say? The war is over? This is just history? The war is approaching the 30-year mark with no sign of respite as long as we keep deluding ourselves that martial victory in a…
Real insecure: The Department of Homeland Security allowed a man to enter its headquarters last week using a fake Matricula Consular card as identification, despite federal rules that say the Mexican-issued card is not valid ID at government buildings. Bruce DeCell, a retired New York City police officer, used his phony card — which lists…
A computer hacker got into the U.S. agency that guards the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile and stole the personal records of at least 1,500 employees and contractors, a senior U.S. lawmaker said on Friday. The target of the hacker, the National Nuclear Safety Administration, is the latest agency to reveal that sensitive private information about…
Military officials insist their case [in 2003] for attacking Zarqawi¹s operation [a terrorist camp in Iraq] was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam. Al-Qaida in Iraq before the war. Iraq, that place run by Saddam, the guy who would never work with…
[…] what the Americans had always lacked was someone from inside Mr. Zarqawi’s network, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, who would betray … According to a Pentagon official, the Americans finally got one. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the raid are classified, said that an Iraqi informant inside Al Qaeda…
A former FBI agent who once faced up to 15 years in federal prison for allegedly tipping off a family friend that he was suspected of spying for the Chinese pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor offense Wednesday. By all public accounts the PRC CI squad is if f’ed up beyond repair, but a year…
Actually, it was going on well before the late Mr. Z got into the game but that’s OK; they’re trying to pay attention and it is better late than never.
I never met a secret squirel (sic) that didn’t think the sky was falling. Can’t you enjoy the success? After long, hard, and expensive struggle we’ve managed to kill a man responsible for the deaths of countless innocents. He was valuable to the insurgency, but like a Hydra there are plenty more where he came…
After the cake is gone and everyone has left the garbage behind, get your context here. In other words: don’t start packing your bags just yet.
GroupIntel Forum members are reminded to check out the site and help predict Iranian bomb developments. If you are not a Forum member please think about joining. Aliases are fine, the important thing is a more diverse set of minds. We don’t keep or track your personal info (that’s another agency’s job). 😉
Taiwan has reported a large Chinese air force incursion into its air defense zone for the second day in a row. The United States just approved the potential sale of $619m in weapons to the island nation, including high-tech missiles for Taiwan’s F-16 fighter jets. A total of 21 Chinese combat planes flew into the…
Over half of Argentina has no power after a fire affected the national electricity grid. Buenos Aires, multiple major cities and large portions of the countryside are left wholly or partially without power. The fire started in open fields and affected crucial power lines in the coastal zone. A nuclear power station was also put…
Microsoft has unveiled a new AI language model called Kosmos-1. It is designed to comprehend the visual world and its relationship with language, allowing it to understand and generate more nuanced conversations than other models. The model uses an architecture based on Transformers, which is a type of deep learning technology. It also incorporates additional…
A train crash occurred in central Greece on Tuesday night causing train carriages to overturn and be engulfed in flames. At least 36 people died in the crash and dozens more were injured. The trains collided head-on near the city of Larissa. The passenger train was traveling from Athens to the city of Thessaloniki when…
Those who have been impacted by the MoralKombat ransomware variant can now restore their systems using a new decryption key released by security firm Bitdefender earlier this week. The firm has been monitoring MortalKombat since it first appeared in January of this year. MortalKombat typically spreads via phishing emails and also delivers the Laplas Clipper…
CrowdStrike released its 2023 Global Threat Report on Tuesday, revealing that the company is now tracking roughly 200 adversaries after identifying almost three dozen new threat actors and campaigns in 2022. The security firm stated that 14 of the 33 discoveries were actually brand new adversaries of activity, while the rest are linked to activity…
Security experts have warned that remote workers in London, England are being targeted by cyberattacks after a honeypot attracted 2,000 attacks per minute. According to the researchers, 91 million threats were identified over a 28-day period in January. Insurer Coalition erected a series of honeypots in collaboration with the Cyber Resilience Centre for London in…
Drew Wade, the chief of the Marshals Service public affairs office announced Monday evening that the US Marshals Service had reportedly suffered from a ransomware attack targeting a computer system containing sensitive information. The cyber incident also affected personal information belonging to investigation targets. The US Marshals Service discovered the breach on February 17 and…
In 2022, security researchers identified nearly 200,000 new mobile banking Trojan installers, far surpassing the figure identified in 2021. Kaspersky shared its findings via a company report published earlier this week. The company wrote that the surge in banking Trojans was alarming and the highest ever reported in the past six years. The uptick in…
Opposition parties have called the presidential election in Nigeria a sham and are calling for it to be scrapped. The Labor Party and the Peoples Democratic Party claim the results of the poll have been manipulated and are compromised. The ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu is currently in the lead with more than 44% of…
Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine will become a member of the Nato alliance in the future, but it needs to remain independent during Russia’s invasion. Ukraine has been attempting to join the military alliance for years and asked that their request be fast-tracked after Russia invaded. Ukraine also applied for EU membership after the…
The US Marshals Service has suffered a major ransomware attack, which compromised sensitive information, including personal data of employees and individuals under federal investigation. The attack impacted a “stand-alone” system and was discovered on February 17. The Department of Justice initiated a forensic investigation, and the affected system was disconnected. The breach was deemed a…
This article reports on a project in which an early warning radar system is being developed to detect the emergence of new pandemics before they become widespread. The proposed system would use data from sources like air travel, climate and weather patterns, and public health monitoring to identify potential pandemic outbreaks as soon as they…
Last Tuesday, news outlet TechCrunch reported that the US Department of Defense had secured a server that was formerly unprotected and had been leaking internal US military emails. The emails were accessible to those who knew where to look for them, according to TechCrunch. The server was reportedly hosted on Microsoft Azure and was part…
On Thursday, the European Commission published a blog post announcing that it has banned the use of TikTok, a popular video-sharing platform, on its corporate and personal devices enrolled in the Commission’s mobile device service. The new measures aim to protect the Commission agains the cybersecurity threats posed by the application. The Commission stated that…
According to security researchers at Menlo Security, an unknown threat actor is currently targeting APAC and North American governments with the malicious information stealing malware known as PureCrypter. The group leveraging the malware starts their attacks with a phishing email containing a malicious Discord link. The link points to a password-protected zip file that downloads…
At just over two minutes to go before SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was due to launch a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station early on Monday, the mission was scrubbed due to an issue with igniter fluid. NASA’s Crew-6 mission had been due to take off at 1:45 am ET from Launch…
Aliksandr Azarov, leader of the Belarusian anti-government organization BYPOL says a Russian military plane has been damaged in a drone attack near the capital of Minsk. Azarov claimed responsibility for the attack. A Beriev A-50 early warning aircraft was hit with multiple blasts near the Machulischy airbase. The strikes damaged front and central parts of…
The European Union has sanctioned the subsidiary of Russia’s Wagner Group in Sudan, Meroe Gold, for facilitating the exploitation of Sudan’s gold wealth. The sanctions came after a CNN investigation into the group’s activities last July. A Russian national, Mikhail Potepkin was named in the sanctions along with Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group subsidiary Meroe Gold. …
The HardBit ransomware group has allegedly offered to set ransom demands based on victims’ cyberinsurance coverage. The ransomware emerged in October 2022, and security researchers state that the threat actors behind the malware launched version 2.0 a month later, in November 2022. Organizations who have been targeted by HardBit ransomware typically have their files encrypted.…
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