Tag: Cyberwarfare

  • Recruiting New Spies via Internet

    It’s no secret that almost every state conducts intelligence both at home and abroad. However, if several decades ago this activity was in the sidelines, the emergence and development of the Internet and information technologies lifted the veil on espionage and empowered intelligence with new, although sometimes controversial, capabilities. Thus, on September 19, 2025, the […]

  • The US Attempted Coup in Venezuela uses new Cyber Tools, but cannot Break the Chavista Wall

    The peoples around the world have looked to Venezuela as a vanguard leading Nuestra América in its second independence struggle, against the US. The US rulers operate as the inheritor of the European colonial empires, assuming the right to interfere in other countries’ elections, and dictate who are the winners. No other country – save US […]

  • Unaccountable Hackers: The CIA, Vengeance, and Joshua Schulte

    The release of the Vault 7 files in the spring of 2017 in a series of 26 disclosures, detailing the hacking tools of the US Central Intelligence Agency, was one of the more impressive achievements of the WikiLeaks publishing organisation.  As WikiLeaks stated at the time, the hacking component of the agency’s operations had become […]

  • Cognitive Warfare, Targeting your Subconscious

    Cognitive warfare is no longer science fiction. Cognitive warfare is a fact of the modern age and everyone, whether civilian or military, is a potential target. Cognitive attacks are aimed at exploiting emotions rooted in our subconscious, bypassing our rational conscious mind. This is achieved by exploiting biases, fallacies, emotions and automatisms, but also through […]

  • Troublesome China Bashing

    The front-page headline of the December 11, 2023, Washington Post (WAPO) read, “China’s cyber army is invading critical U.S. services.” The sub-headline, “A utility in Hawaii, a West Coast port and a pipeline are among the victims in the past year, officials say,” impressed upon the reader that the Peoples Republic of China had wriggled […]

  • How Chelsea Manning’s Court-Martial Laid the Groundwork for Julian Assange’s Prosecution

    How Chelsea Manning’s Court-Martial Laid the Groundwork for Julian Assange’s Prosecution

    Adapted from Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case against Julian Assange Private First Class Chelsea Manning received the harshest punishment any United States military officer or federal government employee has ever received for leaking classified information to the press. Colonel Denise Lind, the military judge presiding over her court-martial, sentenced Manning to thirty-five years at […]

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