One staple of Middle East media coverage rarely seen in U.S. coverage is the story of how the Israel’s high-tech sector supplies spyware to Arab intelligence services. This sort of collaboration is an example of the quiet alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Haaretz.com, the reliable Israeli news site, has the latest example. The Israeli...
Category: CyberWar
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Yes, Russia Tried to Influence the 2018 Midterm Elections
The early returns are in, and the experts are divided. The Wall Street Journal reports that “U.S. officials said they hadn’t observed any significant efforts to directly breach election infrastructure with cyberattacks.” Facebook said otherwise, according to the New York Times. “Just hours after most of the polls had closed, Facebook said it had blocked more than 100...
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Pentagon Prepared to Retaliate Against Russia for Election Cyber Attacks
From the reliable Center for Public Integrity: The existence of such a plan means that America is more fully integrating offensive cyber attacks into its overall military planning systems, a move likely to make cyber combat more likely and eventually more commonplace, sometimes without first gaining specific presidential approval. Cyber attacks are now on a...
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U.S. Charges Russian GRU Officers with International Hacking and Related Influence and Disinformation Operations
A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted seven defendants, all officers in the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), a military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, for computer hacking, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering. Source: U.S. Charges Russian GRU Officers...
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If You Have a Cyberwar Weapon, the Air Force Has $30 Million
Life Cycle Management Center (LCMC) in San Antonio, Texas, is seeking proposals for its Unified Platform (UP), a software system to support development of new cyber weapons. And they have money.