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...

#ParisAttacks — Anonymous declares War on ISIS: 'We will Hunt you Down!'

Following the bloody terror attacks in Paris where over 130 people were killed, the hacktivist collective Anonymous has declared total war against the Islamic State IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL. Anonymous released a video message, posted in French, on YouTube Sunday announcing the beginning of OpParis,...

British-born ISIS Hacker Killed in US Drone Strike in Syria

Remember Team Poison? The hackers group that was active in 2012, and was known for gaining access to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair's address book and then publishing information from it. The British hacker who actually obtained the Prime Minister's address book and was jailed for six month...

IC3 Releases Alert on Web Site Defacements

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert addressing recently perpetrated Web site defacements. The defacements advertise themselves as associated with the Islamic State in the Levant ISIL a.k.a. Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams ISIS. However, FBI assesses that the perpetrator...

Sony PlayStation Network Back Online Following DDoS

Sony Corporation took its online gaming platform, the PlayStation Network PSN, offline over the weekend in the face of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. As of Sunday, the company said the PSN is back online and that game play can resume. Sony is saying that it has seen no evidence of a...