Cole Allen Charged With Attempting to Assassinate Trump

The suspected shooter at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner faces three felony charges. He remains in custody following Monday’s hearing...

Israel Hacked Traffic Cameras in Iran

Multiple news outlets are reporting on Israel's hacking of Iranian traffic cameras and how they assisted with the killing of that country's leadership. The New York Times has an article on the intelligence operation more generally...

Personal data revealed in released JFK files

Over 60,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy were released as part of President Donald Trump’s directive on March 17, 2025, and while readers will not find a conclusive answer to the main question—nor will the files put an end to surrounding conspiracy...

Israel’s Pager Attacks and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

Israel's brazen attacks on Hezbollah last week, in which hundreds of pagers and two-way radios exploded and killed at least 37 people, graphically illustrated a threat that cybersecurity experts have been warning about for years: Our international supply chains for computerized equipment leave us...

Remotely Exploding Pagers

Wow. It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered. Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger a thermal runaway remotely? Supply chain attack? Malicious code update, or natural vulnerability? I have no idea, but I expect we will...

Hacked YouTube Channels Use Trump Assassination News to Push Crypto Scam

Cybercriminals exploit Trumps assassination attempt to lure victims into a crypto doubling scam using deepfake Elon Musk videos…...

A New Surveillance Tool Invades Border Towns

Plus: An assassination plot, an AI security bill, a Project Nimbus revelation, and more of the week’s top security news...

Exploding USB Sticks

In case you dont have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives--actual ones--in USB sticks: In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV station received an envelope containing a pen drive which exploded when he inserted it into a computer, his...

Threat Source newsletter (July 21, 2022) — No topic is safe from being targeted by fake news and disinformation

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I could spend time in this newsletter every week talking about fake news. There are always so many ridiculous memes, headlines, misleading stories, viral Facebook posts and manipulated media that I see come across my...

Drones Carrying Explosives

Weve now had an unsuccessful assassination attempt by explosive-laden drones...

More on Crypto AG

One follow-on to the story of Crypto AG being owned by the CIA: this interview with a Washington Post reporter. The whole thing is worth reading or listening to, but I was struck by these two quotes at the end: ...in South America, for instance, many of the governments that were using Crypto...

Saudi Prince Allegedly Hacked World's Richest Man Jeff Bezos Using WhatsApp

The iPhone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, was reportedly hacked in May 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal account of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Guardian newspaper revealed today. Citing unnamed sources familiar with digital forensic...

How Iran's Hackers Might Strike Back After Soleimani's Assassination

From data-destroying wipers to industrial control system hacking, Iran has a potent arsenal of cyberattacks at its disposal...

Canadian Man Gets 9 Months Detention for Serial Swattings, Bomb Threats

A 19-year-old Canadian man was found guilty of making almost three dozen fraudulent calls to emergency services across North America in 2013 and 2014. The false alarms, two of which targeted this author -- involved phoning in phony bomb threats and multiple attempts at "swatting" -- a dangerous...

NSA’s Top-Secret SKYNET May Be Killing Thousands of Innocent Civilians

So what do you expect from an Artificially intelligent program run by the government intelligence agency? Possibly killing innocent people. The real-life SKYNET, the fictional malevolent artificial intelligence in the Terminator movies, run by the US National Security Agency NSA is a surveillance...

Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey 远程代码执行漏洞(CVE-2013-1722)

BUGTRAQ ID: 62460 CVECAN ID: CVE-2013-1722 Firefox是一款非常流行的开源WEB浏览器。Thunderbird是一个邮件客户端，支持IMAP、POP邮件协议以及HTML邮件格式。 Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird的Animation Manager中，函数nsAnimationManager::BuildAnimations存在释放后重用漏洞，远程攻击者可通过样式表克隆方法，利用此漏洞执行任意代码或造成拒绝服务。 0 Mozilla Firefox 24.0 Mozilla Thunderbird...

Stuxnet was planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick

Stuxnet was planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick The Stuxnet computer worm used to sabotage Iran's nuclear program was planted by a double agent working for Israel. The agent used a booby-trapped memory stick to infect machines deep inside the Natanz nuclear facility, according to a...

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet?

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet ? Initially After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version o...

U.S. Secret Service Investigating Fox News Hack after Obama Messages

HED: U.S. Secret Service investigating Fox News Hack after Obama assassination messages posted DEK: The U.S. Secret Service said it is investigating the July 4 account hijack of a twitter account belonging to Fox News after messages reporting the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama were...

Identity Theft Used By Hamas Assassin Suspects

An Israel-resident British IT worker has reacted with horror to news that a suspected member of an alleged hit squad used a passport with his details to enter Dubai, before allegedly participating in the assassination of a prominent Hamas official. He’s not alone. Read the full article. The Regis...