Collaborate Disseminate
Everyone makes mistakes in their job, but very few of us get the chance to make a one-character mistake with the potential to brick millions of devices. But that’s what …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 25, 2021
In a sign of the times, the Federal Communications Commission has officially signed off on remote testing sessions for amateur radio licensing in the United States. Testing in the US is through the Volunteer Examiner Coordinator program, which allows teams of at least three Volunteer Examiners to set up in-person …read more
All through the cold war, there was a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in play. Nuclear powers like the United States and the Soviet Union would hide submarines armed with nuclear missiles underwater. The other side would try to know where they were so they could be targeted in …read more
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Occasionally in the news (and more often in spy fiction) people toss around super-secret documents marked “Eyes Only.” The United Kingdom and Canada use “Eyes Only” to indicate specific countries with whom a particular document … Continue reading “Eyes Only” Security Marking
A former National Security Agency analyst has been charged and arrested for illegally obtaining classified national defense information, including files on drone warfare, and disclosing it to a reporter. The charges, which were filed originally in March of this year in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, include obtaining, retaining, transmitting, and causing the communication of national defense information, disclosure of classified communications intelligence information, and theft of government property. The Department of Justice unsealed the charges against the former analyst, Daniel Hale of Tennessee, Thursday. Some of the documents that Hale illegally obtained and shared with the reporter detailed top secret information the NSA gathered on specific named targets, several counterterrorism operations, an overseas military campaign targeting al-Qaeda, and the effects of that operation. At least one document revealed classified technical capabilities of the U.S. military. Hale served in the U.S. Air Force from 2009-13, during which he was assigned […]
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For years, it has been publicly reported that Julian Assange offered to help Chelsea Manning break into a classified computer system. Now the Department of Justice has charged Assange for that. Continue reading Julian Assange’s Charges Are Centered on Hacking, Not Publishing Classified Information
pin.it/fnnc4j6fjamugy Once we get past the creep factor of Nazi army uniforms, we see a communications team sending a secret message. They are using the legendary Enigma machine to encrypt the message. But why, why did that officer allow a photographer… Continue reading This photo should not exist
The FBI’s Remote Operations Unit has hacking tools typically reserved for protecting national security. But an overlooked section of a new report says ROU has used these secret techniques in criminal cases. Continue reading The FBI Used Classified Hacking Tools in Ordinary Criminal Investigations
A misconfigured Amazon Web Services server operated by the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Security Command was publicly available on the open internet, according to findings by UpGuard researcher Chris Vickery. The hard drive’s content, which included classified material belonging to the National Security Agency, was stored on a unprotected, unlisted server, containing information about an outdated Army intelligence sharing project codenamed “Red Disk.” Red Disk represents a defunct project that was previously spearheaded by INSCOM in order to improve one of the Army’s legacy platforms known as the distributed common ground system (DCGS). Red Disk was meant to act as a customizable cloud system for soldiers and other operators in field to access, organize and share active reports regarding military activities, including information gathering efforts. The publicly accessible files provide an overview of how Red Disk functioned and could have been deployed. Other confidential information stored on the disk image included a […]
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A hacker group with suspected ties to the Vietnamese government appears to be researching a leaked National Security Agency tool codenamed ODDJOB, based on documents uploaded to the repository VirusTotal and tied to a source already identified as OceanLotus group, otherwise known as APT32. A classified user manual for ODDJOB was originally published on April 14 by a mysterious group, known for sharing NSA documents, named the Shadow Brokers. A copy of this same document was then uploaded April 17 to VirusTotal along with other malicious email attachments by OceanLotus. Multiple U.S. cybersecurity firms say OceanLotus is aligned with the interests of the Vietnamese government. The specific version of the manual uploaded by OceanLotus was not weaponized, meaning it didn’t carry malware that could be used to convert the harmless PDF to a phishing lure. ODDJOB is a high-quality, masterfully engineered digital weapon believed to have been once used to help […]
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