Jeffrey Carr

Here’s some un-solicited advice to pretty much everyone inside the Beltway. Please stop whining about China’s hacking activities while rationalizing our own. No one else in the world has committed the scope or scale of cyber espionage that the NSA apparently has done against so many foreign states. No one else in the world has […]

Late last year, agents of the FBI and NCIS raided a Houston-based company (Arc Electronics) that sold millions of dollars worth of sensitive, export controlled microelectronics to the Russian government including an unidentified research laboratory that’s part of Russia’s Federal Security Service (the FSB, which took over domestic intelligence operations from the KGB). Here’s a […]

Mandiant’s APT1 report from February 19, 2013 made headlines around the world for claiming to uncover that a unit of China’s military has been engaging in cyber espionage operations against an estimated 141 companies in 20 industry verticals. Here’s a condensed version of their key findings: APT1 (aka Comment Crew) is believed to be the 2nd Bureau […]

One heart-wrenching statistic that few like to talk about is the toll that combat takes on a soldier’s psyche. Four days ago, the Washington Post announced the apparent suicide of a Navy SEAL Commander in Afghanistan. Today, Stars and Stripes ran an article proclaiming “More Soldier Suicides Than Combat Deaths in 2012.” Here are the […]

You’ve probably heard by now about how a Special Air Service (SAS) sniper has been sentenced by a British judge to 15 months in military prison for possession of a handgun. If you haven’t, you can get the full story here. It’s an outrageous miscarriage of justice – one that I wanted to bring to […]

Iranian cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions have resulted in false claims by U.S. officials and cybersecurity experts that the State of Iran was behind them. The fact is that while Iran is developing a capable cyber warfare division, the distributed denial of service attacks against U.S. banks have been part of a hacktivist protest […]

The hardest part of staying informed as citizens of the U.S. or wherever your home happens to be is whether you can rely on the validity of the information that you’re given. And that’s the first rule of what I call “Pedestrian Intelligence”, or in other words, intelligence for the rest of us. Rule 1: […]

One of the easiest ways to determine what data is at risk is to know what the strategic imperatives are of  those countries who engage in “technology transfer” and industrial espionage. Russian president Vladimir Putin has made it clear that he’s a supporter of espionage as a tool to be used in Russian technology development. […]

There’s a well-known expression that if you repeat a rumor often enough, it becomes a fact. Such is the case with the oft-repeated rumor that the CIA was responsible for the Trans-Siberian pipeline explosion in June, 1982 by sabotaging the SCADA system that ran the pipeline. The latest iteration of that rumor was in the […]

With Memorial Day almost upon us, the CIA has released the names of 15 of its officers who over the past 30 years have died in the line of duty. When CIA officers are working under cover, their cover identities are maintained even after death in order to not expose their networks or put the […]

The U.S. and most developed countries have undergone a Revolution in Military Affairs since the end of the first Iraq war. Both China and Russia have been investing large sums in RMA, converting their old-style military into one that’s network-centric in order to be more competitive with the U.S. Admiral McRaven introduced a new RMA […]