Collaborate Disseminate
Convincing email-credentials phishing, emailed backdoors and mobile apps are all part of the groups latest effort against military and government targets. Continue reading SideWinder APT Targets Nepal, Afghanistan in Wide-Ranging Spy Campaign
As loyalties among Afghanistan’s Islamic extremists continue to shift, the U.S. military may be poised to rely more heavily on offensive cyber capabilities to target one group in particular — the dispersed but still active membership of ISIS, according to one military cyber commander. Joint Task Force ARES, the outfit charged with running joint and coalition cyber-operations against ISIS, is working to uncover information about how the terrorist group continues to operate in Afghanistan, the deputy commander said Monday. “JTF-ARES is in or around where ISIS is operating,” Brig. Gen. Len Anderson said during a question and answer at an Atlantic Council event Monday. “We are trying to illuminate the network, trying to figure out how they’re communicating, what they’re using, where the money might be flowing, is there money.” Although the Islamic State’s physical caliphate has been crushed in Iraq and Syria, reporting from the Defense Intelligence Agency this year says the group still has a […]
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This weekend, the Afghan Dreamers won the Rookie Inspiration Award at the FIRST Robotics World Championship in Detroit. Continue reading The All-Girl Afghan Robotics Team Was Banned from Entering the US. Now It’s Inspiring a Revolution
Want to work out where the US military personnel are stationed in foreign campaigns? …track them via their Fitbits or smartphones. Continue reading Secret military bases revealed by fitness app Strava
“The reality is we are fighting two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the F-22 has not performed a single mission in either theater.” Continue reading Why Is the Air Force Using Stealth Fighters to Blow Up Crude Drug Labs?
Robotics is almost everywhere, and it is not surprising to see a team of six teenage girls has created a robot that will be fighting in the FIRST Global Challenge to take place in Washington DC in mid-July. But things have changed since the team’s visa application has been rejected by US authorities. Visa denied, […]
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The internet presents a new battlefield for the Afghan government as it prepares legislation to regulate and protect citizens online. Continue reading As Afghanistan Comes Online, It Grapples With Its First Cyber Security Laws
By WaqasGhost Squad Hackers have taken over the official Twitter accountThis is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Twitter Account of Afghan Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Hacked Continue reading Twitter Account of Afghan Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Hacked
A strain of malware has incorporated code used by the Mars Rover exploration robot in an attempt to spy on relations between India and Afghanistan.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Malware uses Mars Rover code to spy on Indian-Afghani relations