Back in 2010 the FBI picked up an alert that there was something strange happening on the computer systems at the NASDAQ stock exchange. What they found there was attack code, a digital weapon capable of damaging cyber-infrastructure. The code had spyware in it that could send information back to its creator, and malware that […]
Textron AirLand Scorpion: America’s Next Fighter Jet?
The Textron AirLand Scorpion could be the answer to over-budget planes from major suppliers. Textron writes: In an era when defence aeronautics is dominated by a handful of major fighter jet companies, Textron AirLand’s SCORPION finds a niche to squeeze into and establish a new market for itself. The SCORPION barely reached 100 flying hours when […]
Trojan Virus: America’s Infrastructure at Risk
A malicious Trojan horse virus has been inserted into systems controlling America’s infrastructure. ABC reports that the systems were penetrated by hackers backed by the Russian government. The threat to America’s infrastructure isn’t new and policymakers and corporations utilizing vulnerable systems should have gotten ahead of this years ago. Here at Richardcyoung.com we’ve been warning about […]
A Step in the Right Direction on Ebola
The Obama administration has taken a small step in the right direction on preventing Ebola from reaching U.S. shores. The Department of Homeland Security has narrowed down the ports of entry for travelers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone to five airports including: Dulles, JFK, Newark, O’Hare and Atlanta. Reuters reports: Affected travelers will have […]
How to Create Terrorists at Home
A thoughtful debate by Congress, not just by the president and his insiders, might get us to the root of the problem that is ISIS–that it’s not our problem. That is until our airstrikes-to-nowhere make it so. “With Tomahawks raining down on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border, it would be nice to have Congress debate the […]
Sikorsky Unveils S-97 RAIDER™ Helicopter
West Palm Beach, Florida – Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), unveiled the first of two S-97 RAIDER™ helicopter prototypes, signaling the start of activities in the program’s test flight phase and a major step toward demonstrating the new – and first – armed reconnaissance rotorcraft featuring X2™ Technology designed for military […]
America’s Dysfunctional “Slobocracy”
The astonishing recent lapse in White House security has some media sources arguing that budget cuts are the underlying cause of the Secret Service’s dysfunction. But as the WSJ points out, the Secret Service budget of $1.7 billion for 2014 has doubled in real terms since 1998. This past May, Peggy Noonan opined in the […]
The Navy’s Most Advanced Destroyer is About to Sail
Back in 2010 we outlined the Navy’s most advanced destroyer while it was in early development. Today the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer is readying to sail. Christopher Cavas of the Navy Times reports that the Zumwalt will launch in the Spring of 2015. BATH, MAINE — The ship is plainly visible from Front Street, across the Route […]
Is Your Data Protected from EMP?
In the past week the Sun showered the Earth with two storms of charged plasma (big storms like these are known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs). Thankfully, neither hit the planet in such a way as to cause global power outages, but each had that potential. In a similar way, a nuclear weapon detonated […]
Are Jihadis Crossing the Mexican Border?
Here Jerome Corsi of TeaParty.org raises the question of whether or not terrorists could be crossing the southern border.
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