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By Moon Of Alabama  Attribution of cyber-intrusions and attacks is nearly impossible. A well executed attack can not be traced back to its culprit. If there are some trails that seem attributable one should be very cautions following them. They are likely faked. Hundreds if not thousands of reports show that this lesson has not been learned. Any attack is attributed to one of a handful of declared "enemies" without any evidence that would prove their actual involvement. Examples: Russian Hackers Blackmail US Liberal Groups After Stealing Emails And Documents, Report Says US officially accuses Russia of hacking DNC and interfering with election Iran hacked an American casino, U.S. says Iran suspected for the attack on the Saudi Aramco North Korea 'hacks South's military cyber command' Official: North Korea behind Sony hack In June 2016 we warned The Next "Russian Government Cyber Attack" May Be A Gulf of Tonkin Fake : All one might see in a [cyber-]

This political provocateur has three rules: ‘Admit nothing; deny everything; launch counterattack’ Paul Wood Paul Wood Washington DC Roger Stone — political consultant, agent provocateur, friend and confidant of Donald Trump — arrives for lunch with a bodyguard in tow. ‘I’ve had way too many death threats,’ he explains. He says he’s recovering from poisoning by polonium, a radioactive substance used to kill the Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in London. Litvinenko, he says, had ‘a much larger dose, probably done by British intelligence’. But the British government named the Russian agents responsible, I reply. ‘What was the proof?’ he asks. ‘It’s all mirrors. You know that.’ Stone blames his ‘poisoning’ on ‘the deep state’, a term that in Trumpworld means the intelligence community. Trump has taken to Twitter to accuse the deep state of tapping his phone on President Obama’s orders. ‘This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!’ Stone has called for Obama to be ‘charged, convic

A Taliban delegation has visited China at an invitation of the country’s government. Photo: news.xinhuanet.com Recently, a delegation of the Taliban visited China at an invitation of the country’s government, Pakistani media reported, citing unnamed sources from the pro-Taliban and diplomatic circles. According to the reports, the delegation consisted of 5 people and was headed by Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the head of the Qatari representation of the rebel movement. One of the source of the Express Tribune newspaper noted that the Taliban viewed the visit to China as a part of a program to develop relations with other countries, both European and regional. However, the main issue on the event’s agenda was a task of restoring peace in Afghanistan and a prospect of settling the conflict through negotiations. Pakistani media mentioned that by now, it is not the first visit of Taliban representatives to China. A similar event took place at the beginning of the year, after trilateral consulta

A top sergeant of the Turkish Navy attempted to break diesel generators of his own submarine, being on duty. Photo: Wikipedia / Ahmed XIV A fact of sabotage on a submarine of the Turkish Navy is currently under investigation, the Turkish Hürriyet newspaper reported. According to information, obtained by Turkish journalists, the fact of intentional attempts to pull the submarine out of action was revealed on one of the Gür diesel-electric submarines of the German 209/1400 project. A top sergeant, who was on duty, tried to force diesel generators of his submarine out of action. For this, he several times descended into a diesel compartment of the vessel and threw metal pieces, shell of nuts and other foreign objects into the generators. The fact of sabotage was revealed, and the top sergeant-saboteur was arrested on charges of “an attempt to destroy the sea transport vessel, belonging to the state’s armed forces.” The newspaper also reported that the submarine itself was not damaged and

EU countries are considering three main variants of answering possible changes in the US trade policy. Photo: RIA Novosti / Aleksey Vitvitskiy Active discussions on how to react to plans of US President Donald Trump to introduce a 20 percent duty on imported goods in the US are held in EU countries, the German Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported. The Europeans consider three variants for answering possible changes in the US trade policy , Cerstin Gammelin, an author of the article, noted. First of all, EU states themselves could subsidize their enterprises in order to save the companies from additional costs for new duties. In addition, companies would manage to remain competitive. However, this variant would hit the budget of European countries. Secondly, the Europeans can make a complaint against the US to the World Trade Organization (WTO). But in this case, they should remember about the fact that the process of resolving a dispute within the framework of this organization

Engineers at the academy have designed a model capable of sending a payload of about 100 kilograms into low Earth orbit. (Representational image) Originally appeared at Chinadaily China will develop a new generation of rockets launched from aircraft that can put satellites into space, according to Li Tongyu, the head of carrier rocket development at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. Air-launched rockets can rapidly replace dysfunctional satellites or, in cases of disaster relief, quickly send up Earth observation satellites to assist in the effort, Li said. Designers at the academy, which is the main developer of Chinese carrier rockets, have designed a model capable of sending a payload of about 100 kilograms into low Earth orbit and are ready to produce one if the government asks, he said. They plan to design a larger rocket that could carry 200 kg into orbit. “The Y-20 strategic transport plane will be the carrier of these rockets. The jet will hold a rocket within its

Written and produced by SF Team: J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, Edwin Watson The December 9, 2016 Kremlin celebration of the Fatherland Heroes’ Day brought attention to one of obscure components of Russian clandestine paramilitary capabilities, when a photo featuring President Vladimir Putin and the leadership of the so-called Vagner Private Military Company surfaced on social media. Vagner is the pseudonym of Dmitriy Utkin, a retired member of the Russian Armed Forces who at the time of his discharge commanded the 700th Special Operations Detachment of the 2nd Separate Special Operations Brigade of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. He has gained experience in PMC operations while employed by the Moran Security Group where he participated in Somalia counter-pirate operations. Vagner’s deputy commander is also a Russian military veteran, Vadim Troshev. Vagner represents Russia’s most ambitious experiment with the PMC concept. Elsewhere in the world, PMCs such as the

WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the largest ever release of confidential documents on the CIA. It includes more than 8,000 documents as part of ‘Vault 7’, a series of leaks on the agency, which have allegedly emerged from the CIA’s Center For Cyber Intelligence in Langley , and which can be seen on the org chart below, which Wikileaks also released : Click to see the full-size image A total of 8,761 documents have been published as part of ‘Year Zero’, the first in a series of leaks the whistleblower organization has dubbed ‘Vault 7.’ WikiLeaks said that ‘Year Zero’ revealed details of the CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.” WikiLeaks tweeted the leak, which it claims came from a network inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia. Among the more notable di