We really hadn’t discussed exercises that were carried out by South Koreatoward the “Northern Limit Line”, a virtual dividing line between North and South Korea. The North warned that if a South Korean weapon “strayed” from its course and hit any properties near the North, that it would retaliate with force 1,000 times worse. Well, [...]
Breaking late this afternoon is information that Anonymous has been (or is) attacking Greece Government websites and is threatening to wipe out all Greek Citizens Debt off of official rolls. Knowing that financial systems have backup plans in place, this is an idle threat of sorts. But, in another manner – it might not be. [...]
Violent pirate attacks have occurred with increasing frequency off the coast of Nigeria, including three times last week. Yesterday an attack against a bulk carrier ended with the killing of the vessel’s captain and chief engineer. Last week pirates hijacked a tanker off[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe to continue.]
The issue is as old as creative content itself. How does the person or company or institution that creates some form of intellectual property defend against those who would appropriate that content with paying the creator? You write a song and anybody can sing it, listen to it and perform it. How does one keep [...]
An employee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York walked out with a hard drive containing propriety code worth about $10M. The software was used to track billions of dollars transferred on the[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe to continue.]
Almost 1000 incidents of cargo theft were reported in 2011, an all-time high. However, the average value stolen dropped from previous years to $319,000 per incident. This is likely indicative[This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe to continue.]
We picked this up in a Georgia (the nation) press piece buried within a Russian media source. Military personnel stationed in one of the front-most Russian military bases in Armenia have reportedly sent their families back to Russia – because they are concerned about conflict erupting in the region. Realize that this would suggest that [...]
Last week we wrote about a Facebook virus that was spreading itself among users’ friends and had infectedaround 50,000 users. New information has come to light that sets the total infectedat closer to 800,000. The virus was able to create fake user [This content is for MEMBERS ONLY. Please Subscribe to continue.]
Hacker groups inside Israel and Saudi Arabia are in a battle of sorts in what analysts are calling a “retaliation cycle” set of cyber-attacks. These attacks have thus far been aimed at just providing denial of service attacks (interruption of service) on major, prominent sites such as the Israeli airport El Al, Israeli banks, and [...]
Several Israeli companies have come under hacking attacks in the past two weeks from pro-Palestinian hackers, and yesterday Hamas called for an escalation of the attacks. Last week a Saudi Arabian hacker started releasing thousands of Israeli credit card numbers online, and yesterday the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange website and El Al Israel Airlines’ website [...]
