BY THE NUMBERS: The Destructive Power Of The Russian Meteor
The bus-sized meteor that streaked overhead in Russia had a blast equivalent of approximately 20 atomic bombs, injured more than 1,000 people, and struck panic throughout Moscow, a city of more than...
View ArticleIranian Commander Killed In Syria Was A Major Enemy Of Israel
Iran vowed revenge against Israel after a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was shot dead in southwestern Syria last week while traveling to Lebanon.A closer look at General...
View ArticleIllicit Meth Trade Between China And North Korea Reveals A Lot About Their...
AS NEW year fireworks crackle and boom amid the neon beside the Yalu river, a small boat inches silently across the stretch of water that forms the border with North Korea. A low block of flats is just...
View ArticleMuslim Preacher Tells Followers Getting Welfare Cash For Holy Wars Is Easy...
A Muslim preacher has been secretly recorded explaining to followers how to receive government assistance they can use to fund a Muslim holy war.Calling it a "Jihadi Allowance," cleric Anjem Choundary,...
View ArticleReader Buys Arsenal Of Assault Weapons And Then Taunts Government: 'Please...
President Obama's heartfelt State of the Union plea for stronger gun safety laws was still fresh in mind when I received these pictures from a reader.The photos show an arsenal of weapons the reader...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Is Working On A Massive Cyber Security Arsenal
Top-level defense contractors like General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin are in close collaboration with the Pentagon to develop a cyber security arsenal capable of allowing the Defense Department to...
View ArticleREPORT: An Overwhelming Number Of The Cyber-Attacks On America Are Coming...
David Sanger, David Barboza, and Nicole Perlroth at the NYT are out with a huge report tonight on Chinese cyber-attacks on US companies.The Times got their hands on an advanced copy of report by...
View ArticleMystery Of Immense Barcodes Painted Across American Landscape Explained
Just the words 'barcodes' or 'QR codes' inspire a certain paranoia among some people. Their uses are many, but until the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) published a recent report, not many...
View ArticleChina Has Found A Brutally Simple Way To Steal Corporate Secrets
The Chinese army appears to be conducting cyberhacking and espionage against large U.S. corporations, according to an extensive report from computer security firm Mandiant.The report even identifies...
View ArticleCongressman Says US Will Put Larger Footprint In Mali
The United States is likely to play a more active military role in Mali, where French-led forces are battling Islamist rebels, after the country holds elections, the chair of a key Senate sub-committee...
View ArticleNow There's A White House Petition About This New Drone Medal
More than 5,000 people have signed an online petition urging the White House to demote a new medal that will honor drone pilots and other service members who participate in combat operations without...
View ArticleThe 'Sequester' Was A Brilliant Idea And Obama Should Be Proud Of It
We're just a few days away from the dreaded "sequester", a series of automatic spending cuts that will result in $85 billion in spending cuts across every part of the US government, with defense...
View ArticleREPORT: China Tried To Hack The 'Holy Grail' Of America's Energy Infrastructure
We've been following the explosive study first reported by the New York Times linking China's army to hacking activities in the U.S.The Times did some additional reporting, and alleges the People's...
View ArticleReporters Detained For Trying To Film Alleged Nerve Center Of Chinese Hacking
In a bombshell 75-page report on Chinese hacking released last night, security firm Mandiant directly linked acts of cyber espionage to China's military.Chief amongst the many findings of the report...
View ArticleApple Was Hacked! (AAPL)
Apple is the latest U.S. company to admit being hacked, Reuters reports.Apple says hackers cracked a few of its employees' laptops, but no data appeared to have been stolen.It says it is the same group...
View ArticleHacking For The Chinese Army Is A Competitive Job With Great Benefits
Mandiant's big report on Chinese hacking offers a fascinating look at one of the most secretive arms of the Chinese military.The hacker military arm falls within China's Signals Intelligence, or...
View ArticleSorry, But That 'Chinese' Hacking Report Proves Nothing
Last night security firm Mandiant published what appeared to be the most definitive report linking attacks on US firms and institutions with Chinese hackers based with the military.It's a remarkable...
View ArticleHACKERS ATTACK: Apple, Burger King, Jeep, NYT … Who's Next???
We're less than two months into 2013, and one thing is clear: hacking is a day to day part of our reality now.Sometimes the attacks are small and simple.On Monday, Burger King's Twitter account was...
View Article17 Of The Most Mysterious Corporate Labs
The term "skunk works" comes from a tiny Lockheed Martin facility run by chief engineer Kelly Johnson in the 1940s, which started in a tent next to a malodorous manufacturing plant. That tiny space...
View ArticleNetanyahu Breaks Silence With Denial About 'Prisoner X'
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, deepened the mystery surrounding the suspected Mossad agent, Ben Zygier by firmly rejecting reports he had "contact" with Australian intelligence before his...
View Article