#CyberCommand

[comparativetarot]

Eight of Swords. Art by Suzanne Treister, from HEXEN 2.0.

US CYBERCOMMAND

[mubashirnews]

US Cybermilitary Force Details Its Support for Ukraine’s Digital Defense

US Cybermilitary Force Details Its Support for Ukraine’s Digital Defense

FORT MEADE, Md. — The Pentagon’s Cyber National Mission force has been supporting Ukraine’s digital defense with daily consultations, a collaboration that has helped unearth thousands of warning indicators of potentially compromised Ukrainian computer networks, a top U.S. cybercommander said on Monday. The United States had a team of nearly 40 people from the force in Ukraine to help the country…

[fvdnews]

US Cybermilitary Force Details Its Support for Ukraine’s Digital Defense

US Cybermilitary Force Details Its Support for Ukraine’s Digital Defense

FORT MEADE, Md. — The Pentagon’s National Cyber ​​Mission force has been supporting Ukraine’s digital defense with daily consultations, a collaboration that has helped unearth 1,000 indicators of compromised Ukrainian computer networks, a top US cybercommander said on Monday. The United States had a team of nearly 40 people from the force in Ukraine to help the country shore up its defenses…

[theoraclemachine]

TOM pg 086

Tension + Humour always go well together.

[franklong12]

The Opportunities—and Obstacles—for Women at NSA and Cyber Command Working in cybersecurity inside americ......Read the rest by clicking the link below! https://worldwidetweets.com/the-opportunities-and-obstacles-for-women-at-nsa-and-cyber-command/?feed_id=42564&_unique_id=606caae6b2980

[wwtweets]

The Opportunities—and Obstacles—for Women at NSA and Cyber Command Working in cybersecurity inside americ......Read the rest by clicking the link below! https://worldwidetweets.com/the-opportunities-and-obstacles-for-women-at-nsa-and-cyber-command/?feed_id=42565&_unique_id=606caae7b49fa

[rapidit]

By making its way onto thumb-drives, this virus installs software onto the target computer and steals data from its system. Its most notable target was, in fact, the Pentagon. When it was discovered on their systems in 2008 they prohibited the further use of thumb-drives and subsequently, the U.S. Cyber Command was created.

[humanismtoday]

How Trump has been AWFUL on cybersecurity

Donald “has practically waged his own personal war against any and all cybersecurity measures.

In April 2018, one month after Trump congratulated Putin on his fourth consecutive sham re-election, Trump demoted and marginalized our nation’s top cybersecurity officials across various agencies.

The following month, Trump completely eliminated the vital Cybersecurity Coordinator on the National Security Council.

Trumps done everything he can to leave the nation more vulnerable to these types of attacks (such as from Iran), and no one should be surprised.”

But at least the idiot gave us “spaceforce”!

https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/1137585/

[van-goghs-smoking-skull]

Nice one. Contracting to the military results in the company's website being deemed too violent for the military. Good job Air Force.

[duelmonstersaduelbetweenkingdoms]

DD: ADBK Cyber Commander

Epithet: 

The Cyborg Commando

Voice Actor: 

Phil LaMarr

Tribe: 

The Kindred

Biography: Although the Machinations are a formidable force, they're not without their problems. Most notably, despite Perfect Machine King's efforts to make flawless Machines, every so often, some soldiers end up reprogrammed by those crafty enough to pull it off. The repeat offenders in that regard are the Kindred, who've captured and saved the lives of several monsters. Among those saved include today's fighter and protector, the Cyber Commander.

Originally known as Tristan of Redstone, he was formerly a friend of Zelda Georgina, also known as Command Knight. However, he was among those killed by Robotic Knight and his fellow generals Launcher Spider and Metalzoa. But what they did next could be considered sick and unforgivable.

See, Robotic Knight had been experimenting on organic subjects to make minions for the Perfect Machine King, and after the success of the Jinzo brothers, he made several more Tristan included. Put simply, he made Tristan into a war machine, armed with rocket launchers, and a bazooka among other weapons.

However, this particular story has a happy ending; as upon Trap Master's addition to The Kindred, he began a counter-campaign against the Machinations, capturing and reprogramming those under their control. It took some time, since the brainwashed cyborgs could be hard to restrain, but it worked! Tristan was among the first to be reformed, and upon gaining his old memories, he swore to defeat the Machines that made him into a monster. As of these days, he's among those who use their knowledge on the Machinations to free locations under their control.

[skater314159]

Well it's the beginning of the Fall semester for me - dropped a class so only 17 hours...

[antoine-roquentin]

About the Trump tweet where he clearly took a photo of a classified briefing with his cell camera:

So, obviously the satellite spotters sprang into action and came up with some estimates for the NRO’s current capabilities:

However, US-224 is 8 years old, part of the 4th generation of KH-11 hardware, a system that has been in use since the 70s. The NRO is in the process of launching the 5th generation to replace it, with USA-290/NROL-71 launching in January of this year with some very odd behaviour that suggests its capabilities are much different than its predecessors.

Marcy Wheeler, analyzing the apparent leak, suggests that it was actually approved of by the intelligence community:

First, the tweet was almost certainly not written by Trump. It has no grammatical errors or typographical anomalies. It uses technical terms and consists of full sentences.

In other words, the tweet has none of the hallmarks of Trump’s reflexive tweeting. Someone helped him tweet this out.

Then there’s the fact that, earlier this week, the US dick-wagged about another successful operation against Iran, a cyberattack that took out the IRGC database that they were using to target western shipping.

That story described the views of CyberCommand head General Nakasone, who did some dick-wagging in February over CyberCommand’s role in thwarting Russia’s efforts to tamper in the elections.

Whatever else Nakasone has done with his command, he seems to have made a conscious decision that taking credit for successful operations adds to its effectiveness. There certainly was some debate, both within the NYT story and in discussions of it, whether he’s right. But Nakasone is undoubtedly a professional who, when stories boasting of successful CyberCommand operations get released, has surely thought through the implications of it.

But as I said, last night NYT weighed in on the destroyed missile launch, with a story by long-standing scribes for the intelligence community, David Sanger and William Broad and — listed at the end in the actual story but given equal billing in Sanger’s tweet of it — Julian Barnes, the guy who broke Nakasone’s dick-wagging earlier in the week. It’s a funny story — as it was bound to be, given that virtually no one reported on the explosion itself and while this spends a line doing that, it’s really a story exploring what kind of denial this is....

Not everyone agrees with the claim that Trump would be required by law to deny a covert operation. He’s the President. He can do what he wants with classified information.

That said, the story may be an attempt to use official scribes to reframe this disclosure to make it closer to the way the intelligence community likes to engage in plausible deniability, with a lot of wink wink and smirking. Amid all the discussion of deny deny deny, after all, the NYT points to several pieces of evidence that this explosion was part of a successful program to sabotage Iran’s missile capabilities.

It could be that this tells us what the capabilities of the previous generation of spy satellites are to make us feel more comfortable, while the current generation is much more apt. After all, the holy grail of satellite imagery is real time automatic facial recognition:

Satellite technology has taken a creepy turn, with high-resolution images becoming so clear that they will soon be able to zoom in on your face and smartphone from outer space. The rapid advancement of the technology has refined the measurements of satellite image resolution from meters to mere centimeters. While these developments will potentially enable governments to better track down criminals and monitor suspicious behaviors, they could also bring a new era of privacy concerns.

Just last year, the US relaxed regulations on the commercial images that satellite companies can distribute, reducing the previous 50-centimeter resolution restriction by half. The new 25-centimeter restriction allows for an image that’s nearly four times clearer than before — precise enough to see a mailbox.

Now, DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of commercial satellite images, is pushing for the restrictions to be lowered again, to just 10 centimeters this time. For reference, the BBC reports that the newest US spy satellites can make out objects less than 10 centimeters across — less than the length of someone’s smartphone. Enabling this kind of technology to be used at a commercial level is certainly somewhat worrisome.

Since you need about 32 pixels minimum to do facial recognition, a resolution of 5 to 10 cm per pixel doesn’t really work for that. However, if your enemies believe that that’s the best you have, while you have something better, then you’ve got a leg up on them.

I’d also like to note the patch for the mission that put USA-224 into space. The Latin is supposed to say “better the devil you know”.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

US cyberdefense is AWOL

In security, attackers have an easier job than defenders: an attacker has to find a single mistake that a defender has made; a defender has to make no mistakes.

But the best defense is NOT a good offense. Neglecting defense means abandoning the people you're defending.

So guess how the US apportions its "cyber" budget.

It's all "deterrence" (i.e. offensive capability) and virtually no actual defense. As Jason Healey writes in Lawfare, this leaves Americans as "prey," not "predators."

https://www.lawfareblog.com/cyber-budget-shows-what-us-values

Healey is writing about the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's report "on a strategic approach to defending the United States in cyberspace against cyber attacks of significant consequences."

https://www.solarium.gov/

The report shows that the vast majority of information security spending in the US is though the military, not through defensive organizations like the DHS, a trend that began with Clinton and has been continued by every president since, with massive acceleration under Trump.

Ironically, Trump has criticized previous admins for neglecting defense and pledged to increase it as a priority, but all he did was redefine "defense" to mean "punishing those who use cyber tools for malicious purposes" and attaining "peace through strength."

Which is why the DoD's cyber budget is 25% higher than the total infosec budget of ALL defensive agencies, with US Cybercommand HQ getting 33% more to cover program ADMINISTRATION than the ENTIRE State Dept cyber budget, INCLUDING operations.

The DoD's cyber ops budget is 250% of the budget for then entire Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and 1000% of the budget for the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.

And that's just the part of the budget we know about; most of the DoD's budget is a secret. It's part of the trend Rosa Brooks spoke of: "everything became war and the military became everything."

Healey: "There are tremendous risks when a fearsome offense is paired with a weak defense," because "a more fearsome cyber offense makes it more likely they will get in a sucker punch on the U.S. before Cyber Command can bring its big guns to bear."

He's focused on the geopolitics, but we must attend to  human costs. When computer criminals steal trade secrets or kompromat, steal identities or clean out your bank account, they get away clean because your government has prioritized attacking rivals over defending YOU.

To take just one example: the NSA found a vulnerability in Windows that they codenamed "Eternalblue." Rather than report that bug to Microsoft so it could be fixed and everyone relying on Windows could be safer, the NSA kept the bug a secret so it could attack its enemies.

Then Eternalblue leaked. It got picked up by dumdums and spliced into some not-very-effective ransomware, supercharging in and giving birth to the Wannacry epidemic. Wannacry went on to shut down numerous businesses and hospitals around the world, including in the US.

But it did worse than that: Wannacry was used to shut down entire US CITIES. For MONTHS. Including, for example, Baltimore, a city that serves as a commuter town for Beltway Bandits, perhaps including some who decided not to fix Eternalblue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/us/nsa-hacking-tool-baltimore.html

It would be one thing if the only people who suffered as a result of this ghastly blunder was DoD personnel and their overpaid contractors - but the collateral damage here is staggering.

An offensive posture means you can make your enemy's rubble bounce after they slaughter your people. Only a general hoping for a consulting job with a defense contractor could view this as a good tradeoff for the casualties experienced by the people they've sworn to protect.

[fightingforpresidenttrump]

Now you understand why he was playing golf today 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💣💣💣💣💣

On Election night, Trump and his campaign team assembled in the Eisenhower Building just west of the White House to watch the results come in.

Know what is there?

A SCIF.

Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. (SCIF)

The kind used by Army intelligence cyber security division.

One of the first things you'll notice when you open this article is the red castle. Those who follow Q will recognize it immediately.

http://www.croftandassociates.com/work-blog/cybercommand-secure-communications-facility

They were monitoring the fraud in real time.

They knew which states were using the voting machines loaded with HAMMER & SCORECARD.

(Software developed for the CIA to manipulate voter tallies remotely in foreign elections.)

It was just deployed against the American people.

Tom Fitton & Sydney Powell put it right in your face

Dr Charlie Ward (Currency Broker & Hotel Contractor - Trump Insider) describes the deployment of this Sting Operation to trap those involved in election theft.

The Federalized National Guard were pulling around the clock duty in at least 16 states to trap these monsters.

All the swing states currently involved in the theft are on the list.

The SCOTUS ordered all ballots received after the deadline in PA be segregated from those received on time.

There will be a ballot audit.

Recounts are conducted by the same people/election boards as the first count.

Audits are conducted by armed fraud investigators.

State Legislators pick electors.

Republicans control both houses of the PA State Congress.

Guess who controls both Houses of State Legislatures in the other swing states?

You guessed it...

Republicans.

Check Mate.

If I were any of these Democrat officials involved in this colossal elecxtion fraud, I would be seeking asylum in a non-extradition country immediately.

Trust your President.

Trust God and Trust the Plan!

Tom Graham.

If you're wondering if what has been revealed above is true, I can tell you that the Twitter account for Tom Graham is followed by General Flynn, 😎

Food for thought 🤔🤔🤔🤔

“New intel from from a local friend always in the know:

Fwd:

Ok in a nutshell. This is going to the Supreme Court. Where they will rule that the election is invalid due to fraud or mistakes on a country wide scale. It will go one of two ways, either they will rule that all the unconstitutional

mail in ballots will be removed and the states ordered to recount without them or they will simply rule the election is invalid due to mass voter fraud and at that point it will be sent to the congress and senate for a vote. This is where it gets good. The house/congress votes on who the President will be. It has nothing to do with what party that has power. Every State gets one vote and 30 States are held by Republicans.and 19 by Democrats. They have to vote down party lines, they have no choice due to the 12th Amendment of the Constitution and the Senate votes for the Vice President where a similar even will take place. This is The law. This is why the Democrats are so mad at Nancy Pelosi. This will all happen in January. The only way President Trump won’t be President is if he concedes the election and that will never happen. So stop watching the fake news and don’t let your heart be troubled and live your life knowing this will all work out. President Trump will remain President. I have researched all of this and it is Fact!

Another fun fact, they called Gore the President Elect for 30 days in 2000 until the courts ruled against him and declared Bush the winner. And two people that were part of Bush’s legal team were none other that new Supreme Court Justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Why do you think the Democrats tried so hard to keep them from being confirmed?”

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