Happy Thanksgiving
Remember our Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Intelligence Services Personnel world wide during the Thanksgiving Holiday. Heroes All.
Train Like You Will Fight, No Electronics →
Because, you will, me-buck-o, be-a war fighting sans guerre électronique...
Inside DHS Security Investigations Forensics Laboratories →
Astonished to find this well-written investigative piece by Vince Lattanzio, writing for NBC 10, in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania [covering Philadelphia and the NBC affiliate in the City of Brotherly Love]. In an effort to detail the the Department of Homeland Security's Forensics Investigation Laboratory many of the tricks of the trade - so to speak- are illustrated for all, including an EMF blocker container to examine miscreant-owned mobile devices without the possibility of remote data destruction.
Tactical Electronic Warfare
Outstanding screed, penned by Andrew Metcalf and Christopher Barber, and published via Small Wars Journal, details, perhaps for the first time publicly, a well-reasoned, rational and deployable methodology focused on tactical work within the electronic warfare realm. Entitled 'Tactical Cyber: How to Move Forward' and deemed today's' MustRead. If by chance, you examine any document today, read Messrs. Metcalf and Barbers' output...
LASED Monday, Boeing's HEL →
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), brings the astonishing capability to add 10KW+ of photonic energy to the warfighter's arsenal; now, with the functionality to lase in high particulate per square meter fog. A development effort between The Boeing Company and the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), and monikered the HEL MD, will surely be miniaturized, dependent of course, upon physics for it's size and the device's coefficient of energy.
DARPA, The Open Catalog
DARPA has updated it's six month old : An astounding, curated compendium of fascinating data and phenomenal projects. Highly recommended, from Big Data initiatives - Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals (DCAPS), to Probabilistic Programming for Advanced Machine Learning (PPAML).
Line in the Sand
Apparently, Microsoft Corporation (NasdaqGS: MSFT) has drawn a proverbial line in the sand...
DARPA's Therapeutic Implantable Memory →
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced an astounding project targeting implantable memory prosthetics to assist service-members and other patients whose memory has suffered degradation due to PTSD. Outstanding.
Art credit: Bio Engineering
MonsterMind
via the inimitable Kim Zetter, Senior Staff Writer at Wired, comes this staggeringly well crafted piece on the United States National Security Agency / Central Security Service's work to create a tool known as MonsterMind. The natural progeny of encompassing surveillance, is the capability to detect and mitigate malware in the wild.
News of Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park has released the August 2014 edition of the Trusts' podcast series, this time, entitled 'Inspiring Women' in cryptanalysis; in which, the Trust focuses on the work women accomplished at Bletchley Park during World War II.
It's Alive!
Word, of the resurrection of the Gameover Zeus Botnet has made the news... Yes, notwithstanding the original take-down, the botnet under the bot herders' command and control facility has arisen, as plagues always do.
An Existential Threat
In a fascinating read, via Defense One's Molly O'Toole, comes an apocryphal description - by John Kelly, GEN USMC - targeting our southern border, now known as an 'Existential Threat'. Probably too close to the truth for most of Congress to admit.
"In spring hearings before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, Kelly said that budgets cuts are “severely degrading” the military’s ability to defend southern approaches to the U.S border. Last year, he said, his task force was unable to act on nearly 75 percent of illicit trafficking events. “I simply sit and watch it go by,” he said. But the potential threats are even greater. Kelly warned that neglect has created vulnerabilities that can be exploited by terrorist groups, describing a “crime-terror convergence” already seen in Lebanese Hezbollah’s involvement in the region.' - via Defense One's Molly O'Toole
Streeter, Bad Old Days...
via the superb editorial cartoonery of Mark Streeter, at Cagle Post
Twitters CIA
via John Little's estimable Blogs of War, comes an apt dissection of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) latest governmental agency member:The United States Central Intelligence Agency.
Ricks, No Uniformed CS University?
Thomas Ricks' erudite take on the astonishing lack of Computer Science universities for the uniformed services here in the United States [and, interestingly, his advice on how to remediate the paucity of computer science educational opportunities for the uniformed services]. After all, there is a DoD Medical College, War Colleges, Officers Schools, Academies and the like, yet no focused computer science institutions...