From China, With Sprinkles

Gee, you’d think there’s be some type of common sense rule about not buying critical electronic components for your military hardware from your enemy, but I guess not. Fake electronics becoming military danger “Sprinkling” sounds like a fairly harmless practice, but in the hands of sophisticated counterfeiters it could deceive a major weapons manufacturer and [...]

Finally Fingering The Usual Suspects

I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! Intell report says China, Russia stealing US secrets After years of suspicions and mounting evidence, the United States has formally called out China and Russia on cyber espionage, accusing the countries of stealing U.S. economic and technology secrets. China quickly denied the accusation. [...]

Hacking The High Ground

Not content to merely cyberattack our civilian and military computer systems every second of every day, the Chinese have now taken their hacking attacks to a whole new, higher level. Chinese Military Suspected in Hacker Attacks on U.S. Satellites Computer hackers, possibly from the Chinese military, interfered with two U.S. government satellites four times in [...]

Watching The Drone Watchers

I smell China, or maybe Russia. The fact that the virus keeps resisting efforts to remove it shows that there’s some sophistication involved. U.S. Military Drones Infected With Mysterious Computer Virus A fleet of U.S. military drones on a Nevada Air Force base has been infected by a keylogger virus that tracks every key and [...]

Yeti Yeti Oxen Free

It’s like a snipe hunt, in the snow. Russian and US Scientists Gather to Hunt Down Yeti Scientists from several countries, including Russia and the U.S., will gather in the Kemerova region of Siberia to hunt down the Yeti, after alleged sightings of the legendary creatures increased threefold in the area over the past 20 [...]

Picking Up Where We Left Off

NASA may be grounded, but the Chinese are just getting warmed up. Rocket launches Chinese space lab A rocket carrying China’s first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, has launched from the north of the country. The Long March vehicle lifted clear from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert at 21:16 local time (13:16 GMT). The rocket’s [...]

Red Dragon Rising

Five months late, the Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military is finally released, and it’s not good news for the good guys. China’s Modernizing Military Threatens Regional Peace, Pentagon Report Says The swift advancement of the Chinese military, which is on course to grow into a modern fighting force by 2020, threatens to disrupt the [...]

Our Friends The Pakistanis

Is this the thanks we get for our billions of dollars in annual aid? Report: Pakistan gave China access to ‘stealth’ chopper in bin Laden raid Pakistan gave China access to the previously unknown “stealth” helicopter that crashed during the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May despite explicit requests from the CIA [...]

When Chinese RATs Attack

Oh, hey, look what China did, again. Isn’t this supposed to be an act of war now? Massive Global Cyberattack Targeting U.S., U.N. Discovered; Experts Blame China The world’s most extensive case of cyber-espionage, including attacks on U.S. government and U.N. computers, was revealed Wednesday by online security firm McAfee, and analysts are speculating that [...]

Is Our Back Door Open?

Gee, I wonder which computer component manufacturing country might be responsible for this? Hmmm, let me think. (you might want to skip to 51:47) U.S. Suspects Contaminated Foreign-Made Components Threaten Cyber Security Some foreign-made computer components are being manufactured to make it easier to launch cyber attacks on U.S. companies and consumers, a security official [...]