How Spy Agencies Hacked into Israeli Military Drones to Collect Live Video Feeds

--- Featured Image Only. See Original leaked images below. In a joint surveillance program, the US intelligence agency NSA National Security Agency and the British intelligence agency GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters hacked into, decrypted, and tracked live video feeds of Israeli...

HARMAN AMX Deliberate Backdoor SEC Consult

AMX, a provider of audio-visual conferencing gear used in sensitive government and military locations, has removed a “deliberate” backdoor in one of its central controller system products. New firmware for the AMX NX-1200 was made available Thursday, removing an administrative account that was...

US releases Iranian Hacker as part of Prisoner Exchange Program

The United States has freed 4 Iranian nationals including one Hacker and reduced the sentences of 3 others in exchange for the release of 5 Americans formerly held by Iran as part of a prisoner swap or Prisoner Exchange Program. The Iranian citizens released from the United States custody through...

Lt Gen David Deptula on Desert Storm and Islamic State

This weekend Vago Muradian interviewed Lt Gen ret David Deptula, most famous for his involvement as a key planner for the Desert Storm air campaign. I recommend watching the entire video, which is less than 8 minutes long. Three aspects caught my attention. I will share them here. First, Lt Gen...

Why a War Studies PhD?

When I begin receiving multiple questions on a topic, it's a signal that I should write a blog post. Several of you have asked me about my experience as a PhD candidate in the King's College London Department of War Studies. In this post I will try to answer your questions by explaining how I got...

2014-2015 Professional Reading Round-Up

At an earlier point in my career, I used to read a lot of technical security books. From 2006 to 2012 I published a series of Best Book Bejtlich Read posts. Beginning in 2013 I became much more interested in military-derived strategy and history, dating back to my studies at the Air Force Academy...

militaryonesource.mil XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.militaryonesource.mil/pls/psgprod/f?p=PMM:5:0::::url:type=external|url=http%3A//www.vuln.org%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=pr\u006fmp\u0074%28/XSSPOSED/%29// Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 03.02.2016 Latest check for patch:| 03.02.2016 20:17 GMT Vulnerabilit...

militaryinstallations.dod.mil XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.militaryinstallations.dod.mil/MOS/f?p=MI:5:0::::url:type=external|url=http%3A//www.xssposed.org%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=pr\u006fmp\u0074%28/XSSPOSED/%29// Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 03.02.2016 Latest check for patch:| 03.02.2016 20:12 GMT...

Not So Fast! Boyd OODA Looping Is More Than Speed

The name "John Boyd" and the term "OODA Loop" are probably familiar to many of the readers of this blog. I've mentioned one or the other in 2006, 2007, 2009 twice, and 2014. Boyd was a fighter pilot in the Korean war and revolutionized thinking on topics like fighter design and military strategy...

South Korea Signs Up to Cyber Theft Pledge

On Friday the Obama administration secured its second win toward establishing a new norm in cyberspace. The Joint Fact Sheet published by the White House includes the following language: "no country should conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, trade secrets, o...

ISIS Hacker who Passed U.S. Military Data to Terrorists Arrested in Malaysia

Malaysian authorities have arrested a Kosovo citizen in Kuala Lumpur on Computer hacking charges and allegedly providing personal data about United States military members to the Islamic State Terrorists group also known as ISIS or ISIL. According to the US Department of Justice DOJ and the FBI,...

This Computer Chip Self-Destructs in 10 Seconds (On Command) to keep Secrets Safe

The Secret Messages are often designed to be destroyed without a trace. In Spy thriller movie “Mission Impossible”, every time Tom Cruise receives a secret message, the last words state - “This Tape message will self-destruct in 5 seconds”...and BOOM! There’s a sudden explosion, and smoke comes o...

Russian Hackers Hijack Satellite To Steal Data from Thousands of Hacked Computers

A group of Russian hackers, most notably the Turla APT Advanced Persistent Threat is hijacking commercial satellites to hide command-and-control operations, a security firm said today. Turla APT group, which was named after its notorious software Epic Turla, is abusing satellite-based Internet...

Ashley Madison Hackers Finally Released All the Stolen Data Online

Well, Cheaters are about to have a very Bad Night Today! Hackers who claimed to have stolen customers' data from Ashley Madison, the popular online casual sex and cheating website with a tagline "Life is short. Have an affair," recently leaked nearly 10GB of its users' personal data online. The...

United Airlines Hacked by Sophisticated Hacking Group

A group of China-backed hackers believed to be responsible for high-profile data breaches, including the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the insurance giant Anthem, has now hit another high-profile target – United Airlines. United detected a cyber attack into its computer systems in May o...

U.S. and Japan to Cooperate on Cybersecurity, Information Sharing

The United States and Japan have agreed to cooperate more closely on cybersecurity and information sharing initiatives as a way to help both countries defend against future threats and attacks. The new initiative will include a variety of components, most notably cooperation during serious...

Naval Academy Cadets Win NSA Hacking Contest

Midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy in have won the National Security Agency’s Cyber Defense Exercise CDX for the third time. Between April 13 and 17, the CDX pits the U.S. Naval, Air Force, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine and Military Academy and the Royal Military College of Canada...

‘DarkLeaks’ Black Market — Anonymously Selling Secrets for Bitcoins

An all new anonymous online underground black market website, DarkLeaks, has been introduced on the Internet where Whistleblowers, blackmailers, hackers and any individual can trade/sell sensitive and valuable data/secrets anonymously in exchange for Bitcoin payments. DarkLeaks is a decentralized...

US Central Command Social Media Accounts Hacked by ISIS Supporters

The official Twitter and YouTube accounts for the US military's Central Command CENTCOM that oversees operations in Central Asia and the Middle East were hacked on Monday by a hacker group claiming association with Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS. The hacker group, appears to cal...

Russian APT28 Group Linked to NATO, Political Attacks

A Russian APT group tied to ongoing attacks against military and political targets in Eastern Europe and against NATO could also have ties to the MiniDuke espionage campaign uncovered more than a year ago. Dubbed APT28 by FireEye in a report published last night, the Russian hackers have targeted...