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Cybersecurity Experts: Stop Sending Troops Into Combat With Personal Tablets, Smartphones
Special operators and other troops must stop taking their unsecured personal tablets and smart phones into combat after an internal Navy investigation found that mapping applications can be hacked by hostile actors, cybersecurity experts warn.
U.S. Can Build Medium-Range Cruise Missiles Within Months After INF Withdrawal
The Pentagon has the capability to build a new intermediate-range ground-launched cruise missile within months after the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the United States from a bilateral arms control treaty with Russia thanks to a little-known provision tucked into the 2017 defense authorization bill.
China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran Set For Electronic Pulse Attacks on U.S.
China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are preparing nuclear electronic pulse attacks from space in a future conflict to cripple the U.S. military and plunge the United States into darkness, according to a declassified study.
“The United States critical national infrastructure faces a present and continuing existential threat from combined-arms warfare, including cyber and manmade electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, and natural EMP from a solar superstorm,” says a recently published report from the congressional Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack.”
Mapping Apps Are Endangering Special Operators
U.S. special operators and other troops have been using advanced war-fighting applications for hand-held devices that contain software weaknesses that render them vulnerable to hacking by hostile actors, a non-public U.S. Navy Inspector General investigation found earlier this year.
Arizona Republic Publishes Cartoon Depicting Sinema With Rocket Launcher Shooting Down McSally
The Arizona Republic news publication received backlash on social media for depicting Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) using a rocket launcher to shoot her Senate opponent, Republican Rep. Martha McSally (Ariz.), down in a plane.
Trump: I’m Requesting All Cabinet Secretaries Cut Budgets by 5 Percent
Sinema Refuses to Address Past Comments Saying It Was Okay for Americans to Join Taliban
Air Force Failed to Protect Frontline F-22 Jets During Storm
The Air Force lost several advanced F-22 stealth fighters that were damaged or destroyed during the hurricane that leveled Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida last week.
U.S. Weapons Systems Vulnerable to Cyberhacks, Report Warns
Major U.S. weapons systems are increasingly vulnerable to hacking attacks, according to federal investigators who “routinely found mission-critical cyber vulnerabilities” in multiple critical systems operated by the Department of Defense.
