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Russia / Strategy Media Update – 28 June 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> While Russia’s descent into the abyss continues, its car bombing campaign in Ukraine produces global MSM exposure. Whitmore...
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Kaspersky: Classified Senate briefing expands to include Russian cyber firm...
In light of the latest ransomware attack, it might be good to revisit this report from May 2017. Many cybersecurity experts are saying that Kaspersky software may be responsible for assisting the...
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Army Accelerates Cyber, EW Integration
This appears in Signal, the magazine of AFEA. </end editorial> July 1, 2017 By Sandra Jontz About the Author The service works to create a cultural shift and curb weaknesses as divides...
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Russia: US sent ‘invitation’ for terrorists to stage gas attack in Syria
Update: Apologies, I initially launched with incomplete information and the author subsequently corrected me. I suggested the word “invitation” was an inflation of the correct verbiage. The US picked...
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U.K. confirms use of offensive cyberweapons against ISIS
U.K. Defense Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said Tuesday that his country is regularly and successfully utilizing offensive cyberweapons within Iraq and other areas under control of the Islamic State. “I...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update – 29 June 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Draft of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act includes many things that will produce apoplexy in Moscow, including...
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Pro-Putin bots are dominating Russian political talk on Twitter
By Andrew Roth June 20 MOSCOW — Bots airing pro-Kremlin views have flooded the Russian-language portion of the social media platform Twitter, in what researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute say...
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Cyber warfare unit set to be launched by Australian Defence Forces
Exclusive by political reporter Ashlynne McGhee Australia’s military is undergoing a major transformation, with the launch of a new information warfare unit. The ABC has learned the team will launch...
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Cash, confusion or cyber-warfare: what really motivated NotPetya attack?
by Davey Winder June 29, 2017 Monetising a global ransomware attack on the scale of NotPetya is all but impossible without getting caught. So if not cold cash, what was the motivation behind it?...
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Taiwan: Information, communication and electronic warfare command formed
Also: Tsai swears in cyberwar commander </end editorial> Information, communication and electronic warfare command formed 2017/06/29 20:26:11 Taipei, June 29 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文)...
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GOP lawmaker: State Dept cuts would hurt counter-disinformation efforts
BY MORGAN CHALFANT – 06/29/17 12:55 PM EDT A Republican lawmaker warned Thursday that drastically reducing the State Department’s budget would hurt efforts to counter disinformation worldwide. Rep....
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Kaspersky Banned in Draft NDAA
The thread on this is actually hilarious. Congress, apparently, must be hit in the face by not one baseball bat, but a logging truck, in order to pay attention to the obvious. No, really? It’s 2017,...
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The Development of Cyber Norms at the United Nations Ends in Deadlock. Now What?
Blog Post by Adam Segal June 29, 2017 The prospects of developing norms of state behavior in cyberspace have been looking positively bleak recently. The Lazarus Group, which appears to have ties to...
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Countering Pro-Kremlin Disinformation In The CEE Countries
COUNTERING PRO-KREMLIN DISINFORMATION IN THE CEE COUNTRIES Teaching children to distinguish fake news from the real ones as early as at primary school; naming & shaming the authors of...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update – 30 June 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Apologies for being late. The embedded chart shows the huge disparity of the NotPetya/Goldeneye pretend-ransomware attack, absolutely making the...
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Global coalition from five nations demands “Five Eyes” respect encryption
30 June 2017 | 9:23 am https://www.accessnow.org/83-organizations-experts-5-nations-demand-five-eyes-respect-strong-encryption/ Today, 83 organizations and individuals from Australia, Canada, New...
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How much does it cost to influence an election? About $400,000
By Stefan Nicola | Bloomberg Posted Jun 29, 2017 at 5:58 PM That’s how much it costs to buy followers on social media platforms, hire companies to write and disseminate fake news postings over a period...
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Ukraine’s PrivatBank Proposes Linux to Replace Compromised Microsoft Platforms
The NotPetya cyber attack didn’t affect the largest bank in Ukraine, PrivatBank. The bank’s entire computer infrastructure, from ATMs and workstations to servers, is built on Linux operating system....
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NATO Stuck in Ineffective ‘Cold War’ Model, Unable to Combat Terrorism:...
I was sent this link by a trusted friend. As I read through the article I just couldn’t shake the feeling that it was skewed and biased, almost like *gasp* Russian propaganda. When Russian FM Lavrov is...
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Vladimir Putin’s flacks: Russia’s stealth public relations war
Full disclosure, I attended Muhlenberg College following high school. Excellent article and it properly illustrates how Russia pushes its image, the problems with the FARA and workaround solutions....
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