How Easy It Is To Spy These Days, In One Graphic
Ashkan Soltani, a privacy and security researcher who has been working with the Washington Post on the Snowden files, has published a graphic that illustrates how technology has greatly reduced the...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Is Hurting Itself More Than The War On Terror Ever Could
Right now Al Qaeda is under siege across the Muslim world not by Washington's drone army, but rather because its doctrine of governance is incompatible with modern society.In the last few days,...
View ArticleThese Wild Instagram Pictures Could Help Bust An Alleged Drug Cartel Enforcer
If you're involved with a major drug cartel, you might not want to plaster your exploits on social media.Recently police arrested Jose Rodrigo Arechiga Gamboa, who is allegedly the top enforcer for...
View ArticleSecretly Filmed Video Shows North Koreans Dramatically Defying Authority
North Korea is undoubtedly one of the most closed off countries on earth. Few Western reporters are on the ground in the country, and its own media efforts are rarely taken as anything other than...
View ArticleLocal Police Department Gets $600,000 Military Mine Resistant Vehicle For...
The West Lafayette Police Department has added to its ranks a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle for about the same price as a used 1998 Cadillac sedan with almost 100,000 miles.The purchase...
View Article9/11 MASTERMIND: The Koran 'Forbids' Violence To Spread Islam
The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has released a manifesto claiming that the Koran forbids the use of violence to spread Islam.The document, published...
View ArticleGATES: America Prevented A 'Very Dangerous Crisis' In Korea In 2010
South Korea declined to comment Wednesday on revelations that the United States talked it down from launching a retaliatory air strike on North Korea in 2010.The claims were made in the newly published...
View ArticleSouth Korean Activists Use Balloons To Launch Leaflets And USB Drives Into...
South Korean activists launched thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets and Wikipedia-loaded USB keys across the border Wednesday, despite past North Korean threats to shell the "human scum"...
View ArticleSix Car Bombs Exploded Across Baghdad — 52 Dead Across Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb attacks hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba on Wednesday, killing at least 52 people, police and hospital sources said.In the deadliest...
View ArticleRussian Security Forces Battle Militants Before Olympics
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russian servicemen and four gunmen were killed in a shootout in southern Russia on Wednesday during a sweep for militants before the Sochi Winter Olympics.Russia's National...
View ArticleEuropean Spies Contacted Bashar Assad To Discuss Security
DUBAI (Reuters) - The intelligence services of some Western countries opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have visited Damascus to discuss security cooperation with his government, Syria's...
View ArticleRadical Jewish Settlers In Israel Reportedly Torched A West Bank Mosque
Suspected Jewish extremists torched the entrance to a mosque in the West Bank early on Wednesday, in an apparent revenge attack for Palestinians beating and detaining Israeli settlers last week.The...
View ArticleIran's President Deleted A Controversial Tweet
The Twitter account of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has deleted a controversial tweet that said the world had "surrendered to [the] Iranian nation's will" in coming to an interim agreement on the...
View ArticleFinally! Someone In Silicon Valley Has The Guts To Defend The NSA
There's been one uniform reaction to all the revelations about NSA spying from Silicon Valley: outrage. Apple, for instance, called the NSA "malicious hackers." Mark Zuckerberg said, "I thought that...
View ArticleIntroducing Blackphone: The Ultimate NSA-Proof Smartphone
Phil Zimmerman first made his mark on the security realm in 1991 when he released PGP, the most widely-used email encryption software in the world.Today, he and his encryption company Silent Circle...
View ArticleSenate Report: Benghazi Attack Could Have Been Prevented
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee to be released on Wednesday was expected to criticize the State Department for inadequate security at the U.S. diplomatic post in...
View ArticleMan Gets Five Extra Years In Prison For Refusing To Reveal Uncrackable...
An Islamic terrorist has been sentenced to five extra years in prison for not revealing the password to a USB memory stick that British security forces failed to crack.The interesting issue here is not...
View ArticleThe NSA Has Secretly Developed The 'Bigfoot' Of Computer Hacks
So it turns out that the NSA has weaponized radio waves in its effort to hack into computers that are isolated from the web.From a computer security perspective, the most important detail in a report...
View ArticlePiracy At Sea Is At Its Lowest Levels In Six Years
Piracy at sea reached its lowest levels in six years in 2013, with 264 attacks recorded worldwide — a 40 per cent drop since Somali piracy peaked in 2011. The figures were confirmed today by the...
View ArticleChina Just Tested A Hypersonic Missile Vehicle
China for the first time has tested a hypersonic missile vehicle designed to travel several times the speed of sound, the Pentagon said Wednesday.The test makes China the second country after the...
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