So, Finnish Authorities yesterday found 69 Patriot air-defense missiles and another 160 tons of explosives on a ship bound for China. What!? The British-flagged merchant ship Thor Liberty apparently left Emden, Germany with the missiles and stopped in Finland to pick up anchor chains when Finnish customs inspectors found the weapons — in crates marked as fireworks […]
Cops and Robbers
The Internet was aflame this morning with talk of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly’s statement to 60 Minutes last night that his department has the ability to shoot down aircraft. Naturally, this prompted people to ask if the department has some type of surface-to-air-missiles. We’ve seen talk about the militarization of America’s police departments over the past few […]
Check out this video of the U.S. Coast Guard scrambling to seize this narco-sub with seven tons or $180 million worth of cocaine before the semi submersible sinks after being scuttled. This one was found with the help of a Customs and Border Patrol aircraft, most likely an ex-Navy P-3 Orion subhunter. P-3s operated by […]
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare Correspondent Recently German police discovered their systems had been successfully attacked by hackers. Their preliminary investigation indicated that the hackers had broken into their systems and were actively inside federal police and customs service computer systems for months. At this time, indications are that the systems came under […]
In more cyber news, defense contracting giant Booz Allen Hamiliton’s networks were apparently breached by the raucous online collective, Anonymous, who proceeded to release more than 90,000 military e-mail addresses and passwords from an unprotected server. Wait a second, an unprotected server at a company positioning itself as a cyber security expert? PR fail. Anonymous […]
