Tag: stratcom
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1,000 jobs headed to fort meade under cyber security
‘we don’t wanna defend the net’ (we want to fight the net) from baltimore business journal: There are still more questions than answers, but information trickling out from the Pentagon is giving a clearer sense for what the military’s cyber security headquarters at Fort George G. Meade will look like. The U.S. Defense Department now…
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pentagon’s cybercom preps war against the american people
from kurt nimmo: NSA Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander told the Senate Armed Services Committee in April that he would work to protect the privacy rights of Americans online. It was an interesting comment from a man who heads up an organization responsible for a massive program of illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications and…
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Pentagon’s Cybercom Says Civilian Infrastructure “Legitimate” Target
When U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates launched Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) last June, the memorandum authorizing its stand-up specified it as a new “subordinate unified command” under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), one that “must be capable of synchronizing warfighting effects across the global security environment as well as providing support to civil authorities and…
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cybercom goes online today so the military can ‘fight the net’
from democracy arsenal: Today, several Cyber Security experts including NSN Advisory Board member Richard Clarke, released the following memo on the launch of U.S Cyber Command, or USCYBERCOM: “Beginning today, the U.S Cyber Command, or USCYBERCOM, is supposed to go online. But the Pentagon has not yet revealed what the scope of Cyber Command’s mission…
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cyber/spacewar: nuking hackers & hacking the nukers
‘unified quest 2009’: army war games for future conflicts doj budget details high-tech crime fighting toolsfrom abcnews: The release of the 2010 budget request has shed more light on some FBI surveillance programs the bureau is currently developing and testing. While the FBI has been criticized at times for its slow reforms after the 9/11…
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cyber/spacewar: stratcom, solar storms, weatherwars
cybersecurity act: heavy restrictions on internet freedoms US military prepares for ‘cyber command’from afp: The US administration is planning to create a new military command to counter cyber attacks on the country’s sensitive computer networks, a US defense official said on Wednesday. The move would be part of a planned overhaul of cyber security policies…
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debris falling in texas could be from satellite collision
from ap: The Federal Aviation Administration has received numerous reports of falling debris across Texas, which could be related to a recent satellite collision. Some of the callers around midmorning Sunday reported what looked like a fireball in the sky. FAA spokesman Roland Herwig says officials suspect the debris could be related to the collision,…
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police state int’l: bioterror, bigbro, behavioral screening & more
a slew of warnings on nuclear, chemical & biological terrorism prompt worries of fearmongering (or fears of worrymongering)from usnews: After a series of dire new warnings about possible terrorist threats—capped by a government commission’s report that terrorists are likely to stage a biological or nuclear attack somewhere in the world during the next five years—some…
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norad & northcom run ‘vigilant shield’ drills on nov12-18
from northcom: North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command will participate in Exercise Vigilant Shield 09 Nov. 12 – 18. The focus of VS09 is on homeland defense and civil support. The exercise will include scenarios to achieve exercise objectives within the maritime, aerospace, ballistic missile defense, cyber, consequence management, strategic communications, and…