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Phishing: Fraudulent bid to gain user names, passwords, and other sensitive information by appearing as a trusted source, usually in e-mails or instant messages. Spear-phishing: Customized version of phishing directed at specific people, such as senior executives in companies. It might be a fake e-mail sent in the name of a boss to an associate….
.. cyberespionage to help do that,” says Greg Garcia, assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the Department (ODCI) … nonprofit venture capital firm funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. The new cyberwarfare has become complex enough … At least three US oil companies were the target of a series of previously undisclosed cyberattacks that may have…
Page 2 of 2 Drone surge: Today, tomorrow and 2047 By Nick Turse As a start, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, the Pentagon’s blue skies research outfit, is already looking into radically improving on Gorgon Stare with an “Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance-Infrared (ARGUS-IR) System”. In the obtuse language of military research…
Page 1 of 2 Drone surge: Today, tomorrow and 2047 (Used by permission Tomdispatch) Asia Times contributor Nick Turse One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same increasingly…
CIA Deploys a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany? Prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to Al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month…