REPORT: We must protect Lone Star state’s stand-alone power grid as Texas is home to massive U.S. military presence vital to national defense
(Cyberwar.news) Though America’s power grid and is arguably the most vulnerable of all U.S. infrastructure, the fact that the state of Texas is has its own self-contained grid puts it in a “unique position” to act in advance of any electromagnetic pulse event or cyber attack by a hostile foreign power, a new study notes. Read More
FBI, DHS issue warning about increasing cyber threat to nation’s power grid after downplaying it in January
(Cyberwar.news) The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI launched a nationwide program warning of the dangers faced by American utilities from damaging cyberattacks like the recent hack of Ukraine’s power grid just three months after both agencies downplayed such a threat, the Washington Free Beacon reported Friday. The campaign began March 31 and included Read More
Apple: Founders ‘would be appalled’ by Justice Dept. demand to crack iPhone
(Cyberwar.news) In Apple Inc’s final brief before a court hearing next week in its clash with the U.S. government over an encrypted iPhone, the company on Tuesday said the U.S. founding fathers “would be appalled” by the Department of Justice’s request. The dispute between Apple and the government burst into the open last month when Read More
A solar event that already happened in 1921 will kill 280 million Americans when it happens again… NASA says it’s inevitable
The sun has a temper tantrum from time to time. Every solar climax, the sun unleashes a wave of solar flares, sunspots and coronal mass ejections. Most of these disturbances go unnoticed on Earth. The atmosphere serves as a shield from the solar storms. This doesn’t mean Earth is out of the woods, however. Solar Read More
Common over-the-counter software would have enabled FBI to unlock San Bernardino jihadi’s cellphone
(Cyberwar.news) With all of the ruckus over whether or not Apple, Inc., ought to provide federal investigators with “backdoor” technology so they can get a peek inside one of the San Bernardino, California terrorists’ cellphone, it turns out that there should have already been a way in that would have involved the installation of common, Read More
China clones military weapons from the U.S., Russia
Handbags, smartphones, movies, beverages and, now, even military technology — China’s copycat culture has taken itself to new heights if its weapons systems are any indication. China’s growing military assertiveness has now been strengthened by weapons cloned from other countries’ technologies. For instance, U.S. aircraft Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Northrop Grumman X-47B Read More
