Discovering the Dimensions of a New Cold War

The United States’ plan for dealing with Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China remains ill-defined among a shifting global order. That must change...

Malicious code in 391free-cold-war-codes-xbox (npm)

The package 391free-cold-war-codes-xbox was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-7004 Malicious code in 391free-cold-war-codes-xbox (npm)

The package 391free-cold-war-codes-xbox was found to contain malicious code...

Whale Song Code

During the Cold War, the US Navy tried to make a secret code out of whale song. The basic plan was to develop coded messages from recordings of whales, dolphins, sea lions, and seals. The submarine would broadcast the noises and a computer--the Combo Signal Recognizer CSR--would detect the specif...

The Chinese Spy Balloon Shows the Downsides of Spy Balloons

A popular military tool during the Cold War, spy balloons have since fallen out of favor—for good reason...

Donald Trump Could Still Launch Nuclear Weapons at Any Time

The president's responsibility for the US nuclear arsenal is a Cold War anachronism. The Trump era shows why it needs reform...

Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG

Previously I have written about the Swedish-owned Swiss-based cryptographic hardware company: Crypto AG. It was a CIA-owned Cold War operation for decades. Today it is called Crypto International, still based in Switzerland but owned by a Swedish company. Its back in the news: Late last week,...

Story of Gus Weiss

This is a long and fascinating article about Gus Weiss, who masterminded a long campaign to feed technical disinformation to the Soviet Union, which may or may not have caused a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia in the 1980s, if in fact there even was a massive pipeline explosion...

The Doomsday Clock Moves Closer Than Ever to Midnight

Since the advent of the clock—even during the peak years of the Cold War—the minute hand has never advanced past the 11:58 mark...

Cold War Analogies are Warping Tech Policy

Opinion: Politicians and pundits' fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech...

History of the US Army Security Agency

Interesting history.pdf of the US Army Security Agency in the early years of Cold War Germany...

Radio Station Broadcast Cold War Era Messages Despite Being Non-operational

By Carolina Now, this is one such creepy news that has all This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Radio Station Broadcast Cold War Era Messages Despite Being Non-operational...

Insecure Magazine : Issue 28 available for Download !

Insecure Magazine : Issue 28 available for Download ! Database protocol exploits explained Review: MXI M700 Bio Measuring web application security coverage Inside backup and storage: The expert's view Combating the changing nature of online fraud Successful data security programs encompass...

Oh wow ! WikiLeaks data stored in Cold War-era bunker in Sweden !

Confidential files of the website WikiLeaks have been stored into a nuclear bunker in Stockholm, Sweden early this week. In particular, WikiLeaks servers are moved to the "Pionen" White Mountains data center, 30 meters below the ground after being dumped by Amazon. According to the Norwegian news...

Alleged Mega-D Botnet Controller Pleads Not Guilty

The man accused of running the Mega-D spam-spewing botnet has pleaded not guilty to charges that he was using the botnet to send millions of spam messages a day, some of them laden with malware. Oleg Nikolaenko was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin on Friday on charges that he violate...