Al Jazeera reports: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has accidentally disclosed the name of a Saudi diplomat suspected of directing support to two al-Qaeda hijackers in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Yahoo News reported. The mistake about the identity of the Saudi embassy official was made in a declaration by […]
Charging Stations in Public Places Could Be Loaded with Malware
Have you heard of Juice Jacking? The term is the name of a strategy used by hackers to load public USB charging stations with malware that can attack the devices of users trying to charge them. Allowing your electronic devices to be compromised by malware can be one of the most stressful and violating modern […]
The Death of al-Baghdadi: ‘100 percent confidence, Jackpot’
Over the weekend, the President announced the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. Sebastian Smith and Omar Haj Kadour report for AFP: Trump told the nation in a televised White House address that a “large number” of IS militants were killed during the raid, which culminated with Baghdadi cornered in a tunnel, […]
Can You Rely on the Experts to Protect Your Privacy?
Unfortunately, the short answer to my headline question is, no. You cannot rely on cybersecurity experts to protect your personal financial information, as evidenced by the numerous breaches of personal information at companies employing large staffs of such experts. Marriot, Equifax, J.P. Morgan, Yahoo (twice), and now Capital One, among many others, have all fallen […]
Will the Next “Battle of Britain” Be a Cyber War?
In the years leading up to World War II, the Western democracies, especially the British, worried about the growing power of Hitler’s Luftwaffe. The advent of real airpower had brought a scary new possibility to war; targeting of civilian areas from the air as a weapon of terror. Without today’s precision-guided bombs, the air war […]
Is Your Credit Card One of the 100 Million Just Breached? Would You Even Know?
A hacker recently stole information on 100 million credit card customers from one of the biggest card companies in the world. According to The Wall Street Journal, the hacker was able to access information like “names, addresses, ZIP Codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and self-reported income, the bank said. Consumer data including […]
Will Iran Retaliate with a Digital Pearl Harbor?
In this U.S. Naval Institute Blog, Commander Brent Spillner, talks about “Preparing for a Digital Pearl Harbor” weeks before the United States completed its cyber-attack against Iran. Will we be ready if Iran decides to attack us? It’s important to look back. Spillner writes: A front-page headline in the 7 December 1941, New York Times […]
CAIR, an Unindicted Co-Conspirator in a Terrorist Financing Case
At The American Spectator, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. tells readers that CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, is “unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist financing case involving the Holy Land Foundation.” If you aren’t aware, Rep. Ilhan Omar was speaking to a CAIR audience when she famously described the 9/11 terrorist attacks as “some people did […]
Terrorist Groups Functioning in Islamic Regimes
As the world mourns the victims of the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, David Harsanyi reminds readers of The Federalist that terrorist organizations have deep roots in Islamic regimes around the world. Those regimes, he says “either actively sustain terror, tolerate these groups, or pay them off to engage in terrorism elsewhere.” He writes (abridged): […]
How Are You Protecting Your Identity?
The number of Americans impacted by identity theft annually grew 33% from 12.6 million in 2012 to 16.7 million 2017. Lifelock reports that data breaches are having the greatest impact on victims: Nearly 60 million Americans have been affected by identity theft, according to a 2018 online survey by The Harris Poll. That same survey […]
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