Monday, February 24, 2014

What I'm Reading Today - 2/24/2104

Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level - The officials acknowledge that budget cuts will impose greater risk on the armed forces if they are again ordered to carry out two large-scale military actions at the same time: Success would take longer, they say, and there would be a larger number of casualties. Officials also say that a smaller military could invite adventurism by adversaries.  (Remember when the Carter years were a bad memory never to be repeated?  Me neither.)

Security certification group EC-Council’s website defaced with Snowden passport - The website for EC-Council, an “International Council of E-Commerce Consultants,” was defaced on Sunday evening. The hacker, who went by Eugene Belford (named for the “thieving evil computer genius” from the movie Hackers) also claimed to have found “thousands of passports belonging to LE [Law Enforcement] (and .mil) officials” in the process of breaking into the site.

Hacking Team sold Spyware to 21 Countries; Targeting Journalists and Human Right Activists - On the basis of tracing endpoints of Hacking Team proxy chains, the researchers suspected that the agencies of 21 Governments are current or former Clients of RCS, and the country names are Azerbaijan, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Panama, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Uzbekistan, including Italy which is the homeland of the Hacking Team.



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