Take thousands of young folks, throw in a smart public relations mind with a vendetta against the United States, add in the ability to rile up foreign anti-American sentiment, and you get the makings for a war that nobody will be able remember as to why it started. Here’s the situation: the capture of Dzhokhar [...]
All American Airlines flights in the U.S. were grounded until at least 5 p.m. eastern today due to a computer problem with the airline’s reservation system. Depending on how long it takes to fix the issue, flights could be grounded even longer. The FAA ordered AA to ground all flights at the request of the [...]
North Korea threatened the United States again, saying that it would use a “pre-emptive” nuclear strike on the United States to thwart our aggression toward it. That comes about 7 hours before the UN was to announce new economic sanctions against the country. It really comes as no surprise – and you could have found [...]
We’ve been warning you for two years about the growing risk of cyber threats to private and public institutions. The President has now put it front and center on the global security risk list. Vowing to spend billions of dollars to help secure the private and public cyber worlds, the President at least showed us [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy, which is responsible for storing and maintaining the nuclear arsenal of the U.S., was hit by a cyber-attack recently. Reportedly, the attack did no damage to DOE systems or infrastructure, and no technical information was accessed. However, the attack focused specifically on gaining
Recent research from independent security experts found at least 500,000 SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems are currently hooked up to the internet, putting them at potential risk of a hacking attack. The most famous hacking attack against a SCADA system was Stuxnet, which took out about one-third of Iran’s nuclear enrichment centrifuges in [...]
Isfahan, Iran is the site of a nuclear facility that is reportedly responsible for converting “yellow cake” into material that is useful in nuclear applications (including weapons). Early in December, the citizens in the area were urged to temporarily evacuate the city because of “dangerously high smog levels”. The evacuation order given by the [...]
A video will reportedly debut on YouTube soon with a very similar point of view to “The Innocence of Muslims,” which was released in September and set off violent protests throughout the Muslim world. There are few details on the video itself, but this one reportedly focuses on Muhammad, and was made by an ex-Muslim [...]
President Assad’s threat to start using chemical weapons has been bantered about in the media. As of last night, he was reportedly mixing the chemicals that make Sarin gas (which would give them a six week shelf life) in order to deploy them in aircraft that could disperse them across the country. Assad vehemently denies [...]
A review of Chinese technology company Huawei revealed no evidence that the company was intentionally spying for the Chinese military. Huawei and fellow Chinese telecom company ZTE have come under fire in recent weeks after being accused by Congress of riddling their products with vulnerabilities for the Chinese military to use for espionage and sabotage. [...]
