Cybersecurity

Russia! SOFREP is Watching You!

The Cold War is done, finish, ka las, no more – right? Not even close! Russia has been recovering, expanding, and sneaking into just about every headline with little or no attention. As usual, I like to identify threats ahead of time; or in this case, an old threat. Walls came down, lessons were learned, […]

The Cyber Battlefield: Digital Drones

There has been a lot of talk about drones lately. There is no doubt that they are a valuable asset in the current war and they will most likely have a central role on upcoming wars. But there is another kind of drone. The digital counterpart. Digital drones are sophisticated little programs that hackers and […]

Cyber Warfare: The “Team” in Red Team

As the name implies a Red Team is a team. In the world I live in – information and physical security – it is comprised by a variety of experts in different areas. Each member can perform the other’s duty but each one has a specialty and he or she is responsible for it. I […]

Offensive Information Warfare and Red Teams

It’s 0100. The moon sits high in the sky over the target’s facility. Four men dressed in BDUs and gear are sneaking in by the tree line, about 50 meters outside the building outer perimeter fence. Pausing occasionally to peer through night vision monoculars to scan the perimeter. They make it to the final penetration […]

Suits, Spooks, and a Revolution in Security Affairs

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 […]

Future War: Confrontation in the Pacific Rim

Scarborough Shoal: A Conflict Over Some Submerged Rocks? While a joint US-Filipino Naval exercise is taking place off the coast of Luzon, the Chinese Navy is running their own exercise simultaneously in the region. “China’s official Liberation Army Daily warned that recent jostling with the Philippines over disputed seas where both countries have sent ships […]

Taking a Closer Look at Cyber Covert Actions

Special thanks to Jeffrey Carr for writing this guest post and helping us take a closer look at covert action and cyber-espionage. -Jack As the U.S. government expands its cyber warfare capabilities including the development and use of offensive weapons, I thought it would be valuable to look at the process of planning and getting […]

Cyber-Terrorism: Pump Your Brakes

Have Submachine gun laptop, will travel While I believe that Brandon is directionally correct with his previous article on SOCOM’s lack of emphasis on cyber-terrorism, and I’ve tried to tip off our readers to emerging threats such as Duqu, I also want to take a few moments to cover the other side of this story.  […]

SOCOM Needs to Improve Cyber Terror Policy & Long Term Strategy

I write this with great respect in having served with the men and women of US SOCOM. I’m a thirteen year, six month veteran of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and have deployed to southwest Asia five times and had one son born when I was chasing AQ in the north of Afghanistan in 2001. […]

What Brought Down 160th SOAR’s Stealth Black Hawk?

Bin Laden gets face-shot When the Osama Bin Laden raid went down, there was a flurry of news reporting, many initial reports stumbling over themselves as both the media and the White House struggled to get their stories straight.  Who executed the raid?  How was Bin Laden killed?  Who is Seal Team Six?  Our readers […]