A multi-step attack targeting defense exporters was recently reported on Symantec’s security blog. This ploy first invaded one defense contractor’s network where it set up a directory on the system for fake press releases. The invaded network was then used…
ABOVE: Gen. James Jones Yesterday’s post mentioned a speech given by National Security Advisor General James Jones to the Senate Aerospace Caucus. I’ve now had a chance to look at a text of his speech as prepared and noticed at…
Online journal DOD Buzz has some buzz that you might want to hear. Or maybe not. Reporting on a speech by Jim Jones, Obama’s national security advisor, to the newly-formed Senate Aerospace Caucus, the journal quoted an unnamed “congressional source”…
A retired Air Force colonel, John O’Toole, and an Israeli aeronautics engineer, Chanoch Miller, are the subjects of a recently unsealed indictment in connection with an alleged plan to ship 700 AK-47s to Somalia. What is most interesting about the…
Regular readers are no doubt familiar with this blog’s occasional posts poking fun of press releases from defense manufacturers noting that the company had “achieved” registration with the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). A common feature of…