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Power’s Out. Now What?

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Do you know what? 75% of people do not know what to do when the power goes out. I read this statistic twice over Thanksgiving in New Hampshire: Once reading Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, and Surviving the Aftermath and again in a Concord Monitor article. It was this time last year that New Hampshire got […]

New York in the Crosshairs of Global Terrorism

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Originally posted September 16, 2013. If you thought that all was quiet on the terrorism front, you’ve been out of contact with the views of New York police chief Ray Kelly. I have written often that I regard Ray Kelly as America’s number one defender against Muslim radicals. Chief Kelly’s New York anti-terrorism unit sets […]

MAP: Victims of Chinese Cyber-espionage

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NBC News reports the frightening frequency of Chinese cyber-attacks by posting a map of attack victims produced by the NSA. Robert Windrem reports: A secret NSA map obtained exclusively by NBC News shows the Chinese government‘s massive cyber assault on all sectors of the U.S economy, including major firms like Google and Lockheed Martin, as […]

Secret Congressional Report: Power Grid Hacked?

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According to a secret Congressional report that has only recently been disclosed, the American power grid is under constant threat of being hacked by foreign powers and malicious groups wishing to gain control of critical power systems. The Washington Free Beacon writes: The report warns that hackers potentially affiliated with terrorist groups or rogue nations […]

Why Terrorists Are Angry

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“Perhaps the most prominent motivating force is anger at U.S. foreign policy,” writes John Mueller, a political scientist at Ohio State University and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. From the infamous Times Square bomber and the Boston Marathon siblings, to the one of the attackers in Paris at Charlie Hebdo, behind their anger has […]

Obama and the Arab Tyrants

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Ex CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer looks at Obama’s anti-U.S. energy self-sufficiency veto. Mike writes, “He today vetoed the Keystone Pipeline Bill which will — as part of his larger campaign to prevent U.S. energy self-sufficiency — keep America closely involved with and protective of the Arab tyrants who rule the oil-rich, Arab […]

Je Suis Charlie

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After the attacks on Charlie Hebdo—Je Suis Charlie—the Socialist leadership in France has wholeheartedly accepted the challenge that it must fight against Islamic terror “as a matter essential to French national identity…” As Kenneth R. Weinstein, president and CEO of Hudson Institute, writes in the WSJ, the struggle is for “the principles of the Enlightenment […]

Cyber Attack on America’s Critical Infrastructure?

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Michael Rodgers, director of U.S. Cyber Command, says it is only a matter of when we are going to see something dramatic in a cyber attack on the country’s critical infrastructure. One big concern is that most of the pipelines are operated by private companies, which could limit the government’s visibility into their operations. McCreary, […]

The Russians Stole the NASDAQ and Nobody Noticed

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Back in 2010 the FBI picked up an alert that there was something strange happening on the computer systems at the NASDAQ stock exchange. What they found there was attack code, a digital weapon capable of damaging cyber-infrastructure. The code had spyware in it that could send information back to its creator, and malware that […]