The West’s war on Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant, continues. The West v. Huawei is a war on two fronts It is a struggle about intelligence war–who will control the flow of information?–and it is an economic war–whose companies will dominate global markets? It’s cyber-econo war. President Trump’s actions, supported by the U.S. intelligence community,...
Tag: <span>Cyberwar</span>
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Was London Stock Exchange Hit by Cyberattack?
People are asking because of an unexpected trading shutdown in the United Kinggdom. Iran has sophisticated cyberwar capabilities and good reason to disrupt the financial system of the superpower that assassinated Gen. Soleimani in Iraq. The Iranian hackers work in conjunction with the Ministry of Security and Intelligence. (MOIS) The U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters, known...
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Yahoo News: Pentagon Secretly Struck Back Against Iranian Cyberspies
President Trump ordered and then cancelled a bombing raid on Iran for downing a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. Cyber Command launched some kind of cyber attack on an Iranian spy group that monitors shipping in the Middle East. The group, which has ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, has over the past several years...
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Threatening Cyberwar May Encourage, Not Deter, Cyberattacks, Official Say
The New York Times cyberwar report over the weekend that the U.S is escalating attacks on Russia’s power grid worries former White House cybersecurity officials. “The idea that we can use cyber offense capabilities to impose sabotage-like effects, and to do so in increasingly large scale and costly ways until they get it through their...
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Reuters: Ex-NSA Cyberspies Reveal How They Hacked Foes of UAE
This is a story about how intelligence agencies deploy private contractors for surveillance and repression. It’s about the globalization of intelligence. Exhibit A: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which detained an innocent British graduate student as a spy and conferred with the chief of Israel’s Mossad. The UAE is an ally of the United States,...
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