US Now Considers Huawei and ZTE Threats to National Security

US Now Considers Huawei and ZTE Threats to National Security

Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE Corp have been designated national security threats by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), citing the companies’ close ties with the Chinese Communist Party and the military ...
Teddy's Citizenship In A Republic Speech, The 110th Anniversary

Teddy’s Citizenship In A Republic Speech, The 110th Anniversary

View fullsize Infosecurity.US celebrates the anniversary of one of the most enduring speeches a President of the United States ever entrusted to history. Namely, Theodore Roosevelt's Citizenship in a Republic, presented at ...
Huawei: The Backdoor Papers

Huawei: The Backdoor Papers

via Jon Brodkin - writing at Ars Technica - and detailing the latest salvo (chatted up in a Wall Street journal piece) in the United States Government versus Huawei Tug of Networks ...
A Life That Is Well Worth Honoring

A Life That Is Well Worth Honoring

via Katie Lang, writing for the DOD News, comes a short, but immensely powerful and important piece detailing the outstanding life of a U.S. Marine and Medal of Honor recepient - Captain ...
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Commerce Bureau Pegs More National Security Risks

The Department of Commerce’s U.S. Bureau of Industry and Commerce (BIC) has added 17 organizations from 11 countries to its “entity list,” citing national security concerns. Presence on the list means the ...
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Pieces of Eight, A Prescription

Pieces of Eight, A Prescription

via the erudite Bruce Schneier, this time writing for Foreign Policy Magazine, comes a prescription to countermand Information Operations, specifically when aimed at our elections. Today's Must Read. 'Influence operations are elusive ...
Boeing - Say It Ain't So...

Boeing – Say It Ain’t So…

via Andy Greenberg, comes a particularly troubling piece, written for Wired, in which, Mr. Greenberg details the litany of ineptitude by Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) in securing their code running the company's ...
Recorded Futures' Discovery, Fishwrappery

Recorded Futures’ Discovery, Fishwrappery

via Sean Gallagher, reporting for Ars Technica, details the discovery of a Fishwrapping influence effort (whence the Fishwrappers, as it were, execute the rerunning of old terror news on various social network ...
Lawfare: US Cyber Command Questionable Strategy

Lawfare: US Cyber Command Questionable Strategy

via Max Smeets, PhD. a cybersecurity post-doc fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), comes this outstanding (PDF Download) dissection of the issue-ridden US Cyber Command strategic focus ...
PRC PLA Navy Targeting Undersea Communications Cables?

PRC PLA Navy Targeting Undersea Communications Cables?

Opinion piece of merit, via James Stavridis, ADM USN (RET) and former Supreme Commander of NATO; in which, the good Admiral details behaviors, focus and actions of the PRC's People's Liberation Army ...