Breaking: Secret Russian Lab in The Fishenko Espionage Case Identified

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 […]

Insubordination in the Al Qaeda’s Ranks

The command dispute between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Al Nusra Front isn’t going away. After the May 23rd letter from Ayman al Zawahiri, Al Nusra pulled back their own propaganda, apparently waiting to see how things were going to settle out, as Abu Khalid al Suri was appointed by the emir of […]

NSA’s PRISM: We’re Missing More Than Just Transparency

In light of the National Security Agency’s Prism program being called into public view from the dark crevices of classified information, government secrets, and other inherently non-transparent activities, I wanted to discuss a few points and introduce some thought on the matter. The purpose of this article is to discuss some commonly held views on […]

Snowden Drops Dimes on the Patriot Act from Hong Kong

Your quick history on the Patriot Act -The “USA PATRIOT Act of 2001” is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. The act, as a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, significantly weakened restrictions on law enforcement agencies’ gathering of […]

The 4th Amendment, Edward Snowden and Critical Thinking

There’s a huge storm brewing as there should be over the 4th amendment, the NSA, the government’s role, and private companies’ responsibilities. As you wade through the mountains of information, it’s probably a good idea to acquaint yourself with the basics of the controversy, and prepare your mind for the onslaught so you can be […]

A Team Effort – Part 3 (and last)

Overnight, the different listeners we had open were reporting data being sent by the crawler. We had mail files, several document and spreadsheets files, configuration files (host file, info stored on the registry of several machines, etc.) and a matrix map of how the computers were connected to each other or network architecture. It was […]

A Team Effort – Part 2

When “D” and I entered the TOC, “Y” was already there talking with the two guys on the ground. They followed the execs that morning and again they stopped at the cafe. This time they were ready with a control inside the execs’ computers. A few minutes later, one of the principals opened his laptop […]

A Team Effort – Part 1

A red team is, like its name states, a team. This is a great thing since each member brings his or her own experiences into the mix. Each member of the team has a specific area that he or she is responsible for. These are usually based on the knowledge of that particular person and […]

North Korea: Missile Systems

Each time that North Korea conducts missile testing the media sites within the United States explode into a panic and only increase paranoia on U.S. soil. The reality is N. Korea is far from reaching the technological levels to hit the U.S. mainland. Although a N. Korean missile attack directed on American soil remains distant […]

Don’t be a Soft Target

“Very often, the victims of terrorism are targeted not because they are threats, but because they are specific “symbols, tools, animals or corrupt beings” that tie into a specific view of the world that the terrorists possess.” -Mark Juergensmeyer INFIL RANT First things first here. I am not a profiling or anti-terrorism Guru and nor […]

AQ Iraq Alive and Well

While Iraq has been off the media’s radar for some time, the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings has eclipsed the current wave of sectarian violence that preceded last week’s provincial elections in Iraq. Although the elections -the first since the US withdrawal -went off with an estimated turnout of about 51 percent, resistance was […]

Vilayet Dagestan And The Continuing Intel Muddle About Boston

Whatever Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s affiliations may have been, they are still unknown and being investigated. While the mainstream media has trumpeted that the Tsarnaev brothers were Chechens, they were in fact originally from Dagestan, a region immediately to the north and east of Chechnya, and their family had since moved to Kyrgyzstan. Of course, separating Dagestan […]