The
U.S. Army considered WikiLeaks a national security threat as early as
2008, according to documents obtained and posted by WikiLeaks
in March, 2010.

-
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his top commanders
repeatedly, knowingly lied to the American public about rising
sectarian violence in Iraq beginning in 2006, according to
the cross-referencing of WikiLeaks’ leaked Iraq war documents and
former Washington Post Baghdad Bureau Chief Ellen Knickmeyer’s
recollections.

- The
Secretary of State’s office encouraged U.S. diplomats at the United
Nations to spy on their counterparts, including collecting
data about the U.N. secretary general, his team and foreign diplomats,
including credit card account numbers, according to documents from
WikiLeaks U.S. diplomatic cable release. Later cables reveal
the CIA draws up an annual “wish-list” for the State Department,
which one year included the instructions to spy on the U.N.

- The
Obama administration worked with Republicans during his first few
months in office to protect Bush administration officials facing a
criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing
policies that some considered torture. A “confidential” April
17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid obtained by
WikiLeaks details how the Obama administration, working with
Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution.

- WikiLeaks
released a secret State Department cable that provided a list
of sites around the world vital to U.S. national security, from mines
in Africa to labs in Europe.

Iraq

- A
U.S. Army helicopter allegedly gunned down two journalists in Baghdad
in 2007. WikiLeaks posted a 40-minute video on its website in April,
showing the attack in gruesome detail, along with an audio recording of
the pilots during the attack.

- Iran’s
military intervened aggressively in support of Shiite combatants in
Iraq, offering weapons, training and sanctuary, according to
an October, 2010, WikiLeaks release of thousands of secret documents
related to the Iraq war.

- According
to one tabulation,
there have been 100,000 causalities, mostly civilian, in Iraq
- greater than the numbers previously made public, many of them killed
by American troops but most of them were killed by other Iraqis,
according to the WikiLeaks Iraq documents dump. 

– U.S.
authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse,
torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers
whose conduct appears to be systematic and normally unpunished,
according to the WikiLeaks Iraq documents dump.

Afghanistan

- U.S.
special-operations forces have targeted militants without
trial in
secret assassination missions, and many more Afghan civilians have been
killed by accident than previously reported, according to the
WikiLeaks Afghanistan war document dump.

- Afghan
President Hamid Karzai freed suspected drug dealers because of their
political connections, according to a secret diplomatic
cable. The cable, which supports the multiple allegations of corruption
within the Karzai government, said that despite repeated rebukes from
U.S. officials in Kabul, the president and his attorney general
authorized the release of detainees. Previous cables accused Karzai’s
half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, of being a corrupt narcotics
trafficker.

Asia

- Pakistan’s
government has allowed members of its spy network to hold strategy
sessions on combating American troops with members of the Taliban,
while Pakistan has received more than $1 billion a year in aid from
Washington to help combat militants, according to a July, 2010,
WikiLeaks release of thousands of files on the Afghanistan war.

- A
stash of highly enriched uranium capable of providing enough material
for multiple “dirty bombs” has been waiting in Pakistan for removal by
an American team for more than three years but has been held
up by the country’s government, according to leaked classified State
Department documents.

- Despite
sustained denials by US officials spanning more than a year, U.S.military
Special Operations Forces have been conducting offensive operations
inside Pakistan, helping direct U.S. drone strikes and
conducting joint operations with Pakistani forces against Al Qaeda and
Taliban forces in north and south Waziristan and elsewhere in the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas, according to secret cables
released as part of the Wikileaks document dump.

- China
was behind the online attack of Google, according to leaked
diplomatic cables. The electronic intrusion was “part of a coordinated
campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives,
private security experts and internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese
government.”

- Secret
State Department cables show a South Korean official quoted as saying
that North
Korea’s collapse is likely to happen “two to three years” after the
death of the current dictator, Kim Jong Il. The U.S. is
already planning for the day North Korea implodes from its own economic
woes. China has “no will” to use its economic leverage to force North
Korea to change its policies and the Chinese official who is the lead
negotiator with North Korea is “the most incompetent official in China.”

- North
Korea is secretly helping the military dictatorship in Myanmar build
nuclear and missile sites in its jungles, according to a
leaked diplomatic cable. Although witnesses told the embassy that
construction is at an early stage, officials worry Myanmar could one
day possess a nuclear bomb.

- Five
years ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross told U.S.
diplomats in New Delhi that the
Indian government “condones torture” and systematically abused
detainees in the disputed region of Kashmir. The Red Cross
told the officials that hundreds of detainees were subjected to
beatings, electrocutions and acts of sexual humiliation, the Guardian
newspaper of London reported Thursday evening.

- The
British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force
condemned by human rights organisations as a “government death squad”,
leaked US embassy cables have revealed. Members of the Rapid Action
Battalion (RAB), which has been held responsible for hundreds of
extra-judicial killings in recent years and is said to routinely use
torture, have received British training in “investigative interviewing
techniques” and “rules of engagement”.

- Secret
U.S. diplomatic cables reveal that BP
suffered a blowout after a gas leak in the Caucasus country of
Azerbaijan in September 2008, a year and a half before another BP
blowout killed 11 workers and started a leak that gushed
millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Middle East

- Saudi
Arabia’s rulers have deep distrust for some fellow Muslim countries,
especially Pakistan and Iran, despite public appearances,
according to documents from the late November, 2010, WikiLeaks U.S.
diplomatic cable dump. King Abdullah called Pakistan’s president Asif
Ali Zardari “the greatest obstacle” to the country’s progress and he
also repeatedly urged
the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear
program to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.

- Iranian
Red Crescent ambulances were used to smuggle weapons to Lebanon’s
militant Hezbollah group during its 2006 war with Israel,
according to the leaked U.S. diplomatic memos.

- In a
leaked diplomatic memo, dated two weeks after elections that landed
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in office, a senior American
diplomat said that during a meeting a few days before “Netanyahu
expressed support for the concept of land swaps, and
emphasized that he did not want to govern the West Bank and Gaza but
rather to stop attacks from being launched from there.”

- The
United States was secretly given permission from Yemen’s president to
attack the al Qaeda group in his country that later attempted
to blow up planes in American air space. President Ali Abdullah Saleh
told John Brennan, President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, in a
leaked diplomatic cable from September 2009 that the U.S. had an “open
door” on terrorism in Yemen.

- Contrary
to public statements, the Obama administration actually helped fuel
conflict in Yemen. The
U.S. was shipping arms to Saudi Arabia for use in northern Yemen even
as it denied any role in the conflict.

- Saudi
Arabia is one of the largest origin points for funds supporting
international terrorism, according to a leaked diplomatic
cable. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged U.S. diplomats to do
more to stop the flow of money to Islamist militant groups from donors
in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government, Clinton wrote, was reluctant to
cut off money being sent to the Taliban in Afghanistan and
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Pakistan.

- The U.S.
is failing to stop the flow of arms to Middle Eastern militant groups. Hamas
and Hezbollah are still receiving weapons from Iran, North Korea, and
Syria, secret diplomatic cables allege.

- A storage
facility housing Yemen’s radioactive material was unsecured for up to a
week after its lone guard was removed and its surveillance camera was
broken, a secret U.S. State Department cable released by WikiLeaks
revealed Monday. “Very
little now stands between the bad guys and Yemen’s nuclear material,”
a Yemeni official said on January 9 in the cable.

- Israel
destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, constructed with apparent
help from North Korea, fearing it was built to make a bomb.
In a leaked diplomatic cable obtained by the Israeli daily Yedioth
Ahronoth, then-US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice wrote the
Israelis targeted and destroyed the Syrian nuclear reactor just weeks
before it was to be operational.

-
Diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks indicate authorities
in the United Arab Emirates debated whether to keep quiet about the
high-profile killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai in January.
The documents also show the UAE sought U.S. help in tracking down
details of credit cards Dubai police believe were used by a foreign hit
squad involved in the killing. The spy novel-like slaying, complete
with faked passports and assassins in disguise, is widely believed to
be the work of Israeli secret agents.

- WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange told Al Jazeera network that some of the
unpublished cables show “Top
officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA,
and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective
countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence
agency. These officials are spies for the U.S. in their countries.”

Europe

- Of the
500 or so tactical nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal, it is known
that about 200 are deployed throughout Europe. Leaked diplomatic cables
reveal that dozens
of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons are in Germany, the Netherlands and
Belgium.

- NATO
had secret plans to defend the Baltic states and Poland from an attack
by Russia, according to a leaked diplomatic cable. NATO
officials had feared “an unnecessary increase in NATO-Russia tensions,”
and wanted no public discussions of their contingency plans to defend
Baltic states from Russian attack.

- The
Libyan government promised “enormous repercussions” for the U.K. if the
release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, was not
handled properly, according to a leaked diplomatic cable. The
Libyan government threatened “harsh, immediate” consequences if the man
jailed for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 died in prison in
Scotland. 

- Pope
Benedict impeded an investigation into alleged child sex abuse within
the Catholic Church, according to a leaked diplomatic cable.
Not only did Pope Benedict refuse to allow Vatican officials to testify
in an investigation by an Irish commission into alleged child sex abuse
by priests, he was also reportedly furious when Vatican officials were
called upon in Rome.

- Sinn
Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness carried out negotiations
for the Good Friday agreement with Irish then-prime minister Bertie
Ahern while the two had explicit knowledge of a bank robbery that the
Irish Republican Army was planning to carry out, according to
a WikiLeaks cable. Ahern figured Adams and McGuinness knew about the
26.5 million pound Northern Bank robbery of 2004 because they were
members of the “IRA military command.”

Africa

- Anglo-Dutch
oil giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC has infiltrated the highest levels of
government in Nigeria. A high-ranking executive for the
international Shell oil company once bragged to U.S. diplomats, as
reported in a leaked diplomatic cable, that the company’s employees had
so well infiltrated the Nigerian government that officials had
“forgotten” the level of the company’s access.

- Mozambique
is fast on its way to becoming a narco-state because of close ties
between drug smugglers and the southeastern African nation’s government,
according to U.S. Embassy cables released by WikiLeaks. The cables say
cocaine, heroin and other drugs come in from South America and Asia,
and are then flown to Europe or sent overland to neighboring South
Africa for sale.

-
Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe-appointed attorney general announced he was
investigating Mugabe’s chief opposition leader on treason charges based
exclusively on the contents of a WikiLeaks’ leaked cable. The cable
claimed Zimbabwe
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai encouraged Western sanctions
against his own country to induce Mugabe into giving up some political
power.

Americas/Caribbean

- Mexican
President Felipe Calderon told a U.S. official last year that Latin
America “needs a visible U.S. presence” to counter Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez’s growing influence in the region, according to a
U.S. State Department cable leaked to WikiLeaks.

- A newly
released confidential U.S. diplomatic cable predicts Cuba’s
economic situation could become “fatal” within two to three years,
and details concerns voiced by diplomats from other countries,
including China, that the communist-run country has been slow to adopt
reforms.

- The
Honduran military, Supreme Court and National Congress conspired in
2009 in what constituted an illegal and unconstitutional coup against
the Executive Branch, according to a leaked diplomatic cable.
However, the constitution itself may be deficient in terms of providing
clear procedures for dealing with alleged illegal acts by the President
and resolving conflicts between the branches of government.

- Venezuela’s
deteriorating oil industry and its growing economic problems are taking
a toll on President Hugo Chavez’s popularity. In one
confidential leaked diplomatic cable dated Oct. 15, 2009, the U.S.
Embassy said “equipment conditions have deteriorated drastically” since
the government expropriated some 80 oil service companies earlier that
year. It said safety and maintenance at the now state-owned oil
facilities were in a “terrible state.”

- China
has been reselling Venezuela’s cheap oil at a profit,
according to a classified U.S. document released by WikiLeaks.
President Hugo Chavez was upset that China apparently profited by
selling fuel to other countries, fuel that it had sold China at a
discount in order to gain favor. The cable also describes falling crude
output in Venezuela caused by a host of problems within the national
oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA.

- Jamaica’s
counter-drug efforts have been so sluggish that exasperated Cuban
officials privately griped about their frustrations to a U.S. drug
enforcement official, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable.
The communique released by WikiLeaks said Cuban officials painted their
Caribbean neighbor to the south as chronically uncooperative in
stopping drug smugglers who use Cuban waters and airspace to transport
narcotics destined for the U.S.

- A leaked
U.S. diplomatic cable published Saturday depicts the leader of Mexico’s
army “lamenting” its lengthy role in the anti-drug offensive, but
expecting it to last between seven and 10 more years. The cable says Mexican
Defense Secretary Gen. Guillermo Galvan Galvan mistrusts other Mexican
law enforcement agencies and prefers to work separately, because
corrupt officials had leaked information in the past.

- McDonald’s
tried to delay the US government’s implementation of a free-trade
agreement in order to put pressure on El Salvador to appoint neutral
judges in a $24m lawsuit it was fighting in the country. The
revelation of the McDonald’s strategy to ensure a fair hearing for a
long-running legal battle against a former franchisee comes from a
leaked US embassy cable dated 15 February 2006.

In 2010,
WikiLeaks released only about 2,000 of the approximate 250,000 cables
it claims to possess, and the pace of those releases dropped
dramatically as the holidays approached. If Assange’s promises are to
be believed, 2011 will be another important year for learning about the
hidden forces that drive our world.

U.S. Army’s underground GPS
The U.S. military is developing S Bug, an underground guidance system based on magnetic fields. Tunnels and caves are the new frontier for the US Army. While the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on the development of an underground “satnav” system (IOL 616) to guide soldiers underground, It is impossible to receive a GPS signal underground, which is why the Strategic Technology office of the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) is working on the development of an alternative system that will work underground.

Pindr0p traces telephone calls
Telephone calls via internet can now be localised, thanks to their digital finger-print. Presented at a computer security conference in Chicago on October 5 by researchers from Georgia Tech, Pindr0p software makes it possible to identify the origin of a telephone call by analysing the artifacts and background noise associated with its transmission.

More than a dozen candidates are lining up to head the expanded and more autonomous Joint Situation Centre (SitCen), the intelligence agency of the EU’s new European External Action Service (EEAS) which officially comes into being on January 1.

MI6 has received a list of British militant Islamists who have studied in Islamic institutions in Syria.

On November 11, Elcomsoft published in Moscow the latest version of its flagship product, Internet Password Breaker, which enables the retrieval of password backups in an internet navigator.

DIY mobile phone tapping
At the DefCon hackers’ convention in Las Vegas on July 31, security consultant Chris Paget demonstrated how to record mobile telephone conversations with equipment costing a mere $1,500, a tenth of the price of an “IMSI catcher” tapping device.

Private investigators for public agency
While waiting to be incorporated into the future Economic Crime Agency, which will gather

Diligence’s elite commando
Nick Day, Russ Corn and Trefor Williams, Diligence’s three heads, all served together in the Special Boat Service (SBS) the special forces unit of the Royal Navy.

Video Analysis: Minority Report Soon a Reality?
European researchers are working on software to identify “suspicious behaviour” in crowds. The advent of high definition surveillance cameras connected to computer servers has given a boost to video analysis, a technique aimed at automatically detecting suspicious events (fights, abnormal behaviour, abandoned parcels, etc)

The GCQ has farmed out part of its Modernisation Interception program to Lockheed Martin

Job Vacancy for “Ethical” Hacker at DHS
30/04/2009 – The advertisement quickly did the rounds of forums specializing in hacking and computer security. Placed by General Dynamics, it offered the job of Senior Ethical Hacker in a computer security service at the Department of Homeland Security, the government agency that currently sees to the security of federal computer networks

DIA’s Favorite Sub-Contractors
10/04/2008 – Put out to tender last September (IOL 553), a USD 1 billion contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency for a Solutions for Intelligence Analysis program was awarded to a consortium consisting of the agency’s eight customary sub-contractors, including BAE.

High Tech Turn For Ex Mossad Chief
20/07/2007 – The blue-ribbon product of Israeli’s Natural Speech Recognition (NSC) company, NSC Spotter, automatically detects key words in telephone conversations in Hebrew and English but also in Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish and Germany.

Infiltrating the military with fake routers
A court in Texas sentenced the Saudi Arabian-born Ehab Ashoor to four years imprisonment May 6, for trying to sell counterfeit Cisco routers, manufactured in China, to the military base administered by the U

Hackers’ assault on software source codes
A report from the anti-virus manufacturer McAfee on the attack on Google, Adobe and other companies’ internal networks at the beginning of January has confirmed American intelligence agencies’ worst fears about the attack (IOL 610).

Satellites monitor Afghan poppyfields
In France anyone wanting to buy photographs taken byRapidEye satellite must go to an unlikely sounding source – the Societe de Services des Betteraviers, the service company to the beet-farming industry.

Armed Forces Want 4 Dimension Maps
The French armaments board Direction Generale pour l’Armement is putting the final touches to a program dubbed Geode4D that aims to provide the military with tools combining geographic information and climatic data starting from 2015.

How to Break Codes & Passwords on the Cheap
The hacker community is over the moon about an experiment that computer specialist David Campbell, founder of the security concern Electric Alchemy, is conducting on-line.

Agencies Want to Monitor Twitter & Facebook
In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital fund, has invested in Visible Technologies and Attensity, two firms that offer search engines specializing in social networks such as Twitter, Facebook Flickr, and You Tube

Vital Infrastructure, But Not Hacker-Proof
Arrested by the FBI on June 26, Jesse McGraw was accused of taking over control of the ventilation system of a hospital in Dallas.

Gordon M. Snow is the new man in charge of the FBI’s Cyber Division.

Endgame, virus-buster
An American company maintains a global data base of computers infected by viruses. The purpose is to filter them but also, eventually, to manipulate them.

P2P

BitLocker

iPhone

Mobile Phones

Wireless

Limewire

Intelliforms

Counter-Encryption

MySpace

Web Coupon

eBay

Lexis Nexis

Twitter

Microsoft Cloud

Go Daddy

Integra Telecom

One Communications

SWIFT

Digital Due Process

Cox Comms

FirstCare Physicians

Cisco

Census Bureau

American Stats Assoc

Packet Forensics

Travelers Express

Moneygram

The Press Inchoate Liability for Newsgathering

Privacy

Will Not Reveal Your Personal Information


Cannot Personally Identify You

Take Your Privacy Very Seriously

Collect No Personal Information About You

IBM Coprocessor

Trofile HIV Assay

Dr Medwid Dental Spa

Abraxas Applications

Winnebago Industries

NC4

Teach Me Law Enforcement

International Data Vault

Steptoe & Johnson

Covington & Burling

DNI Masterspy

Central Intelligence Agency, CIA

National Security Agency, NSA

ATT

British Telecom, BT


Ebay & PayPal

Google

White House

Federal Reserve Board

jpmorgan

Goldman Sachs

IBM

verint

juniper

McKinsey Report: The Internet of Things

earthlink

earthlink dmca

Network Solutions

Time Warner

windows 7

windose 7

windoze 7

win 7

win seven

window 7

fincen

paypal

myspace

comcast

microsoft

facebook

aol

skype

Cox Communications

ning

myyearbook

stickam

US Postal Service

usps2

yahoo

US Secret Service Network Intrusion Program

cisco

3gpp

TestGen4Web -Just like your VCR – for Firefox. It records what you do, stores it, and plays it back on demand.

Resurrect Dead pages, broken links, the scourge of the internet. Powerhouse sites like Slashdot and Digg can bring a server to its knees. What do we do when a page is dead but we still want to see it? Call in the clerics, and perform a resurrection…

Digger Navigate “up” easily in sites with hierarchical URLs, e.g from http://example.com/foo/bar to http://example.com/foo

FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages

Scroogle SSL search (lets you search with Google anonymously)

GSI Creates Site Maps based on Google queries. Useful for both Penetration Testing and Search Engine Optimization

Cookie Editor that allows you add and edit “session” and saved

PassiveRecon provides information security professionals with the ability to perform “packetless” discovery of target resources utilizing publicly available information

Advanced Dork: gives quick access to Google’s Advanced Operators directly from the context menu…

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page…

Tamperdata to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters