military

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…

2 weeks ago

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…

4 months ago

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…

8 months ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

Armed Services, Social Engineering and Sensationalist Reporting — CyberSpeak Podcast

On this episode of the CyberSpeak with InfoSec Institute podcast, Michel Huffaker, director of threat intelligence at ThreatQuotient, talks about…

2 years ago

Supply-Chain Security

Earlier this month, the Pentagon stopped selling phones made by the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei on military bases because…

3 years ago

History of the US Army Security Agency

Interesting history of the US Army Security Agency in the early years of Cold War Germany....

3 years ago

Insecure Storage Buckets Expose 1.8 Billion Online Posts Scraped for U.S. Military

A Pentagon contractor left three storage buckets publicly accessible on Amazon's S3 service, exposing more than 1.8 billion online posts…

3 years ago