U.S. Dept Of Defense: Access to requests and approvals via /█████ allows sensitive information gathering

Summary: An adversary is able to view/modify requests and approvals via ████████/████████. Step-by-step Reproduction Instructions 1. Browse to █████ and create an account or sign in. 2. Browse to ███████/██████████. You can now view current/past requests. 3. Clicking on these requests seems to...

Classified U.S. Defense Network Outage Hits Air Force’s Secret Drone Operations

U.S. drones are again in news for killing innocent people. The Air Force is investigating the connection between the failure of its classified network, dubbed SIPRNet, at Creech Air Force Base and a series of high-profile airstrikes that went terribly wrong in September this year. Creech Air Forc...

GAO: The DoD's Plan To Unify Cyber Defenses Looks Like Swiss Cheese

A new report out from the Government Accountability Office GAO warns that the U.S. Department of Defense’s efforts to unify its cyber security operations has serious gaps and that the Department is “unprepared to meet the current threat” of cyber attack. The report, issued on Monday, is an...

Wikileaks

As lore and Bradley Manning’s own accounts have it, the one-time Intelligence analyst and recently demoted Pfc. walked into a forward operating base near Baghdad with a blank disc that he had cleverly disguised as a Lady Gaga CD and proceeded to download a treasure trove of diplomatic cables of...

Pentagon tightens computer security in wake of WikiLeaks breach !

Top defense and intelligence officials reiterated their commitment to information-sharing at a Senate hearing Thursday, even as they outlined new safeguards to prevent a repeat of the WikiLeaks breach that has led to the release of thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables. T...

PFC Bradley Manning (U.S. Army)

Bradley Manning’s is the face that launched a hundred thousand leaks. The 22 year-old intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division was stationed in Iraq when, allegedly, he downloaded hundreds of thousands of classified documents and video from SIPRnet,...