Cybersecurity

Uncle Sam Needs Coders. Here’s How The Military Could Draft Them

Could Uncle Sam track down and draft a dozen 30-something computer programmers if the Army suddenly needed them? Not yet. But the idea’s out there. The Selective Service System should be drastically redesigned to meet the demands of modern war, according to a small but notable chorus of defense analysts and congressional lawmakers. Leap past the latest […]

A Plan for Everything: How I Could Theoretically Destroy the World

If I am not indefinitely detained in a federal facility following this article,  I will cover my interrogation period in my next article. Yes, I beat you to it! OK, so hands down I’ve been told again and again throughout my life to have a plan for everything. Apparently I’m the only one who took […]

U.S. Cyberattacks Target ISIS in a New Line of Combat

The United States has opened a new line of combat against the Islamic State, directing the military’s six-year-old Cyber Command for the first time to mount computer-network attacks that are now being used alongside more traditional weapons. The effort reflects President Obama’s desire to bring many of the secret American cyberweapons that have been aimed elsewhere, notably […]

Pro-ISIS Hackers Post “Kill” List Of State Department Employees

Hackers with a pro-ISIS group calling themselves the United Cyber Caliphate distributed a “kill” list on Monday that appears to include dozens of U.S. government personnel, Vocativ discovered. The list features 43 names of people linked to the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the departments of defense, energy, commerce and health and services. It also identifies the U.S. embassies in Santiago […]

China is a racist hypocrite when it comes to espionage

Each time we cover Chinese espionage here at SOFREP we have come to expect the usual deluge of Chinese nationals accusing us of being racist.  You know, racist against the oppressed Han Chinese minority group that numbers in well over a billion people… A propaganda poster recently spread around Beijing as a part of “National Security Education Day” […]

China says that China is not hacking American computers…

China’s state-run press agency accused the United States on Sunday of blaming Beijing for a recent rash of cyberattacks in order to advance its own interests. In an op-ed published by Xinhua, China’s largest government-controlled media organization, recent claims of Chinese-sponsored cyberattacks waged at the Pentagon are dismissed as “self-serving rhetoric” invented by the U.S. […]

ISIS Mouthpiece “Jazrawi” Exposed as Cheeky London Resident

Anonymous hackers are posting photos and details of who they claim to be, Jazrawi Daesh – @Jazrawi_Daesh. Jazrawi, principally a Twitter personality who has acted as a propagandist for the terrorist organization, know as Daesh [ISIS/ISIL]. He first came to light after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, where Jazrawi declared via Twitter, the […]

The German Army (Bundeswehr), to Reorganize Against Digital Threats

The real need to intercept online radicalism, EU plans to defend against Hybrid Warfare, the expansion of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and a global influx of Chinese espionage. Germany is opting to central its digital defense strategy, a methodology yet to be adopted by the United States. “Defence Minister Ursula von der […]

Paul Le Roux, the criminal mastermind who works for the US government

For a man who built an empire in pixels, Paul Le Roux seemed like a digital phantom. After his name surfaced in the press in late 2014, I spent the better part of a year trying to understand him through the same means by which he’d directed his massive pharmacy business: the Internet. Late at […]

US, UK to Conduct Cyber-Nuclear Wargames

The UK and the US are set to join hands to test the resilience of their respective nuclear infrastructure to terrorist attacks. Later in the year, the two countries will simulate a cyberattack on a nuclear power plant to test the preparedness of the government in dealing with such attacks. Government sources, who revealed the […]

Feds concede: WhatsApp has unbreakable encryption

WhatsApp, the world’s most popular instant-message app with more than 1 billion users, is now fully encrypted on all platforms: Android, iPhone, Blackberry and others. That’s good news for users who care about security and privacy, including journalists and dissidents. At the same time, it represents the intensification of a trend toward ubiquitous encryption that […]

More Illegal Immigrants are from China, not Mexico

Despite popular conceptions, the Chinese are increasingly crossing U.S. the border, as Mexicans are returning home. the border is not simply an American and Mexican issue anymore. The world watches us, and our enemies the closest. Are you still up in arms over migrant workers? I hope not, because this whole border issue has become […]