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OPSEC FAIL: US Military Email Going to Mali — via Typo
MX Mixup: Russian-allied government can intercept “highly sensitive information”—because there’s no “I” in .ML ...
MOVEit Cyberattack, The Problem with Password Rotations, Military Alert on Free Smartwatches
Several major organizations, including British Airways and the BBC, fell victim to the recent MOVEit cyberattack. We discuss the alarming trend of hackers targeting trusted suppliers to gain access to customer data, ...
Vulnerabilities in Weapons Systems
“If you think any of these systems are going to work as expected in wartime, you’re fooling yourself.” That was Bruce’s response at a conference hosted by US Transportation Command in 2017, ...
Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
The NSA has just declassified and released a redacted version of Military Cryptanalytics, Part III, by Lambros D. Callimahos, October 1977. Parts I and II, by Lambros D. Callimahos and William F ...
The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data
Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming ...
The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data
The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely on features disabled by such ...
Scammers Target U.S. Troops with Fake COVID-19 Tests
Scammers continue to piggyback on the COVID-19 Coronavirus scare with new tricks, this time targeting U.S. Army service members with phone calls requesting their personal information and promising a testing kit to ...
Skill Sets for Transitioning into a Cybersecurity Career
Changing careers is never easy. How long or far you have already traveled down your particular career path can make the thought of changing careers a little intimidating. Often, people who are ...
Attacking Soldiers on Social Media
A research group at NATO's Strategic Communications Center of Excellence catfished soldiers involved in an European military exercise -- we don't know what country they were from -- to demonstrate the power ...
Gen. Nakasone on US Cyber Command
Really interesting article by and interview with Paul M. Nakasone (Commander of US Cyber Command, Director of the National Security Agency, and Chief of the Central Security Service) in the current issue ...
