Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) recently sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking for it to take data security and hacking attempts by America’s enemies more seriously. Green also wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), asking it to investigate the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), especially USA Staffing... Read More

Welp. The US State Department’s cyber attack group “Anonymous� publicly claimed credit for taking the site offline. Guess the US has decided to start the cyber war. A real tit-for-tat cyber war with Russia is actually much dumber than those suicidal sanctions they were threatening. America is a whole lot more digitized in terms of... Read More

A report published last year by the WEF-Carnegie Cyber Policy Initiative calls for the merging of Wall Street banks, their regulators and intelligence agencies as necessary to confront an allegedly imminent cyber attack that will collapse the existing financial system. In November 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace co-produced... Read More

Christian Picciolini has carved out a career for himself as the man who can de-radicalize of "white supremacists." Picciolini's former organization, Life After Hate, once even received lavish grants from the federal government that his former associates have sued him in court over Picciolini's business, now named "Free Radicals Project," revolves around claims of winning... Read More

As World War II drew to a close in Europe, British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that “neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.� Though numerous examples in the post-World War II era have proven Russell’s point,... Read More

Next time Brian Williams or his carefully-coiffed successor assigns blame to some foreign actor for a cyberoutrage, I expect the “Cyber Threats Intelligence Integration Center� to figure prominently in the coverage. According to AP (actually, according to AP’s Ken Dilanian, the notoriously obliging amanuensis to the US security establishment ): White House cybersecurity coordinator Michael... Read More