304th MI Battalion Weekly OSINT News Summary August 12, 2008

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The 304th MI Bn OSINT Weekly report is an unclassified product of the 304th Army MI Bn OSINT Team. This report is derived from news articles, OPEDS, Blogs and book reviews from national and international sources available on the World Wide Web. The articles may be read in their entirety by inserting the URL listed below the item into a browser. These summaries do not represent 304th MIs position or point of view and are selected upon the criteria of whether the content addresses GEOINT, HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT, OSINT or news on new weapons technology. The news summary is based on open source information and is not processed open source intelligence.

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GEOINT-IMINT Buying The Best Eyes On North Korea South Korea and the U.S. have cleared up some legal problems that were preventing the sale of U.S. RQ-4 Global Hawk UAVs. (Strategy Page Blog, Aug. 12) www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20080812.aspx Russia-Georgia War on Google Earth (as of August 11) (User) created an updated map with more airstrike locations, more battle locations, and oil pipelines. (Google Earth Community, Aug. 11) http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/1217606/page/vc/1 Indexing Reality: Creating a Mine of Geospatial Information What if we had an accessible and accurate digital replica of the world? What could we make from it and what new knowledge could we create? Online maps and virtual globes are now becoming common visualization tools(Digital

Urban Blog, Aug. 10) http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/08/indexing-reality-creating-mine-of.html 3D Buildings Of Tel Aviv In Google Earth (User) discovered 3D buildings of The Arlov Towers, Kikhar Hamedina and the Electric Central station. I suspect those are user generated materials since there is no official representation of Israel in Google Maps yet. (Ouriel Ohayon Blog, Aug. 10) http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2008/08/3d-buildings-of.html

HUMINT Outing the CIA Interrogator: Scrambled Logic at the Times (New York Times) Cited the case of another interrogator who, when his name was made public, suffered more than a dozen death threats, had his house put under police guard, and was told to take his family out of the country(National CI Exec. OPED, July 30) www.ncix.gov/publications/reports/NYTOp-EdonMartinez.pdf Philippine Govt Winning War On Militants With Cash Not Bullets So far 17.3 million pesos (about 393,000 dollars) has been paid out to informants(Asia One News, Aug. 10) http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20080810-81567.html Activist Turned Extremist, U.S. Says While her fellow students at MIT read newspaper articles about the massacre of Muslims in Bosnia in the 1990s, Aafia Siddiqui sprang to action, giving slide shows and rousing speeches to collect donations... (Boston Globe, Aug. 12) www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/12/activist_turned_extremist_us_says/ Pak Diplomat Meets Aafia Siddiqui Counselor Faqir Syed Asif Hussain had 2-1/2-hour meeting with Ms Siddiqui after U.S. authorities allowed him consular access to the detainee. (The Nation-Pakistan, Aug. 9) www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/10-Aug-2008/Pak-diplomat-meets-Aafia-Siddiqui ISI Helping Taliban Says NATO Pakistan's intelligence agency is helping the Taliban to pursue an insurgency in Afghanistan that has seen a 50 per cent increase in attacks... (Gulf Daily News, Aug. 12) www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=226110&Sn=WORL&IssueID=31145 British Cash To Buy Off Taliban 'Goes To Farmers' A scheme to pay Taliban fighters to defect to the West has descended into chaos(UK Telegraph, Aug. 10) www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/2529278/British-cash-to-buy-off-Taliban-goes-to-farmers.html

Reporter's Notebook: GTMO Sentence a Shocker A colleague did the math soon after the driver's 66-month sentence came down and realized that, in the end, Salim Hamdan of Yemen got a shorter jury sentence thanDavid Hicks. (Miami Herald, Aug. 10) www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/campaign-2008/story/635671.html Ending The Psychological Mind Games On Detainees Psychologists have been identified as key figures in the design and conduct,,,(Boston Globe, Aug. 10) www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/08/10/ending_the_psychological_mind_games_on_detainees/

MASINT/ATEP Is A.Q. Khan a 'Patriot' or the 'Godfather of Proliferation'? Pak. Pres. Musharraf put him under house arrest for his nuclear weapons deals. Ex-CIA chief Tenet described him as being "at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden." (Spiegel, Aug. 11) www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,571252,00.html Syria Bars IAEA From Bombed Nuke Site The decision dealt a blow to efforts by the IAEA to follow up on intelligence made available to its experts asserting that Syria was hiding a nuclear program(Kuwait Times, Aug. 10) www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NjQ4MTQwNDEw Iran Nuke Dispute Hurting Neighbors: Kuwait Kuwait urged Iran yesterday (Aug. 9) to resolve tensions with the West over its nuclear program, saying the dispute undermined the interests of Gulf states(Kuwait Times, Aug. 10) www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTM1MzA3NDgyNw== Threat Detection Training Deployed The IAEA is hoping that years of radiological threat detection training in Beijing will deter any incidents(Middle East Times, Aug. 10) www.metimes.com/Security/2008/08/08/threat_detection_training_deployed/a96a/ Israel Build-Up To Counter Iran's Nukes Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran's nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran's atomic program(Times of India, Aug. 8) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Gulf/Israel_build-up_to_counter_Irans_nukes/articleshow/3339416.cms Anti-Terror Patrols Secretly Stepped Up At Power Stations (UK) Massive expansion of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary is being secretly planned(UK Daily Mail, Aug. 10) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043161/Anti-terror-patrols-secretly-stepped-power-stations.html

OSINT Russian President Halts Attacks, Says Georgia 'Punished' Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev on Tue. (Aug. 12) ordered a halt to the military offensive(AFP, Aug. 12) http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6LePi9Jgo7MrQugqVp0JpAIL7Kw Women Linked To Chinese Home-Made Bomb Attacks (China) Two women were among a squad of assailants accused of killing 12people when they hurled homemade bombs at govt. buildings and police this week in a Muslim region of China(South Africa Dispatch, Aug. 12) www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=235434 Islamic Group In Transport Threat (China) An Islamic group that has threatened to attack the Beijing Olympics released a new video warning Muslims to avoid planes, trains and buses(AP, Aug. 8) http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gEFwhTBNQ9eWQYgAvR6B2N-cJ4hQ Georgian Force To Leave Iraq The commander of the 2,000 Georgian troops in Iraq said Sat. (Aug. 9) that his soldiers would leave the country(LA Times, Aug. 10) www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq10-2008aug10,0,6719247.story Coalition Forces Capture 9 Hezbollah Brigades Operatives In Baghdad The suspects were detained in Adhamiyaha cell leader and weapons smuggler, a propaganda expert, and an IRAM facilitator(The Long War Journal, Aug. 12) www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/coalition_forces_cap_1.php Secret Work Of SAS In Iraq Exposed The secret work of SAS troops battling Al Qaida terrorists in Iraq has been exposed by the American Commander(UK Telegraph, Aug. 11) www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/2540775/Secret-work-of-SAS-in-Iraq-exposed.html

Sadr Reorganizes Militia Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr ordered most of his militiamen to disarm but said yesterday he will maintain elite fighting units to resist the Americans if a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops is not establishedWeapons are to be exclusively in the hands of one group, the resistant group," while another group called Momahidoun is to focus on social, religious and community work, Sadrist cleric Mudhafar Al-Moussawi said. (Kuwait Times, Aug. 9) www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=OTM0MjEyMjU= Iraqi Police Struggle To Find Women Involved In Suicide Attacks In Diyala, women are feared now. In the past eight months, 12 have blown themselves up in suicide attacks. (McClatchy Newspapers, Aug. 8) www.macon.com/world/story/426626.html Behind the Surge in Iraqi Women Suicide Bombers According to U.S. military figures, women were bombers in only a few dozen attacks before 2007. But since then, at least 35 women have carried out suicide bombings, 8 in 2007 and at least 27 suicide bombings so far in 2008(Foreign Policy in Focus, Aug. 11) www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5455 PKK Tactics May Reveal Damage Caused by Turkish Military Campaign (Iraq & Turkey) Recent Trends in PKK Operations(Jamestown Foundation, Aug. 11) www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2374366 Iran Sunni Rebels Kill 2 Hostages, Abduct 3 - TV Citing a spokesman of Jundollah (God's Soldiers), said the rebels killed the two men after "the failure of contacts between the Iranian government and Jundollah". (Reuters, Aug. 11) www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLB636214 Afghan Forces To Take Over Security In Kabul Afghan security forces will soon begin to gradually take over security of Kabul from international forces(Gulf News, Aug. 10) www.gulfnews.com/world/Afghanistan/10236155.html Pakistan's Punjab Assembly Votes Overwhelmingly For Musharraf To Quit Members of Punjab province's local assembly voted 321 to 25 Monday that Pres. Musharraf should leave office... (Washington Post, Aug. 11) www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/12/ST2008081200846.html Pakistans Frontier Corps and the War against Terrorism Part Two Notwithstanding the numerous failures that have characterized FC operations against the extremist militants in FATA, many experts continue to believe that the FC has a much better chance than the Pakistani army in securing the tribal areas. (Jamestown Foundation, Aug. 11) www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2374368 Senior Al-Qaida Leader Killed In PakistanTV channels identified the dead man as Mustafa Abu al-Yazid and said he was also known as Abu Saeed al-MasriHe was killed in recent clashes in the Bajaur tribal region(Al Arabiya, Aug. 12) www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/08/12/54676.html Khanqahs, Shrines Being Monitored To Counter Anti-State Elements(Pakistan) They said (Pak. Security) that a special circular had been issued right after a militant named Qari Saifullah Akhtar was found managing a religious shrine. They said that Akhtar was heading Harkatul Jihadal Islami Pakistan considered a close ally of Al Qaidas Mullah Umar. (Pakistan Daily Times, Aug. 12) www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C08%5C12%5Cstory_12-8-2008_pg13_4 Al-Qaida Video Calls For War On Pakistan And Musharraf Ayman al-Zawahiri whose voice apparently appeared on the tape, spoke in English and called for an uprising against Musharraf and...Pakistan(UK Guardian, Aug 12) www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/12/alqaida.pakistan Al-Qaida Indicts Musharraf Al-Qaida has released a charge sheet against Pres. Musharraf before his proposed impeachment by the ruling coalition. (Pakistan Post, Aug. 11) http://thepost.com.pk/MainNewsT.aspx?bdtl_id=12133&fb_id=2&catid=14 Musharraf Siphoned Millions From U.S. War On Terror Fund U.S. aid might have gone to fund rogue members of thethe ISI(Pakistan Daily Times, Aug. 11) www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C08%5C11%5Cstory_11-8-2008_pg1_1 Pakistan Troops Withdraw From Taliban Stronghold The confrontation came against a backdrop of renewed political turmoil in Pakistan. (LA Times, Aug. 10) www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan10-2008aug10,0,6869936.story

U.S. Plans Fata Offensive (Pakistan) The plan could include sending U.S. special forces teams, temporarily assigned to the CIA, into the tribal areas to hit high-value targets(The Nation-Pakistan, Aug. 9) www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/09-Aug-2008/US-plans-Fata-offensive HUJI May Strike Assam (Bangladesh) Amidst intelligence inputs about jehadi elements lead by Bangladesh based Harkat-ul-jehadi Islami (HUJI) striking a pact with the ULFA in the run-up to Independence Day(NDTV, Aug. 10) www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080060822&ch=8/10/2008%201:35:00%20AM Security Stepped Up In Delhi Ahead Of Independence Day Celebrations (India) The Intelligence Bureau has circulated an alert about 6 Lashker-e-Taiba militants who are said to have sneaked into Delhi to carry out terror strikes(Gulf Times, Aug. 11) www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=234937&version=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22 In Gujarat, The Police Grapple With A Huge Terror Threat (India) The I.M., a loose coalition of members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and the Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad blasts. (India Frontline Mag., Aug. 16 ed.) www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20080829251700900.htm Vice And Virtue Committee Elects Its Leaderships (Yemen) The newly established vice and virtue committee elected Sheikh Abdulmajid al-Zindani (analyst comment: designated by the U.S.G. in 2004 as a loyalist to Usama bin Laden and supporter of al-Qaida) as Pres. of the committee, Sheikh Sadiq Bin Abdullah Bin Hussein al-Ahmar VP and Sheikh Hamoud al-Tharihi as a Sec. GenAli Abdu Rabo al-Awadhi , Abdullah Hasan Khairat and Sheikh Mohammed al-Baidhani were also elected as assistant secretary generals. (Yemen Observer, Aug. 11) www.yobserver.com/front-page/10014744.html Security Seize Many Weapons After Tarim Terrorist Group (Yemen) Weapons included 40 bags of explosive gunpowder, TNT bombs as well as an equipped workshop to prepare explosive-laden cars. The sec. forces also found passports one of which is for Ahmed Saeed al-Mashjari and the two othersSaudis named as Badah Bin Mughis Bin Badah al-Qahtani and Waleed Bin Radhi Bin Samilil al-Utaibi. (Saba Net, Aug. 12) www.sabanews.net/en/news161286.htm Yemen Says Leading Al-Qaida Fugitive Killed In Police Raid Official sources said that Hamza al-Quaitiwas among five al-Qaida suspects killed(Monster & Critics, Aug. 12) www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1423349.php/Yemen_says_leading_al-Qaida_fugitive_killed_in_police_raid Al Qaida Leader In Yemen Threatens To Carry Out More Terrorist Attacks An alleged Al Qaida leader in Yemen (Hamza Al Quaiti) threatenedto carry out more attacks(Gulf News, Aug. 7) www.gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/10234987.html UIC Urges Somali Troops To Surrender Acorrespondent reporting from S. Mogadishu says the UIC spokesman, Sheikh Abdirahim Isse Addow, has threatened that Somalia's Ethiopian-trained soldiers will come under attack unless they surrender their weapons. (Iranian Press TV, Aug. 10) www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=66230&sectionid=351020501 More Attacks Off Somalia The tug(hijacked) joins the supramax bulk carrier Stella Maris, hijacked on 22 July and the largest vessel seized to-date. The ship and 18-strong crew are still being held and it is understood negotiations for their release are continuing. (Maritime Global News, Aug. 12) www.mgn.com/news/dailystorydetails.cfm?storyid=9062 Botswana Gets U.S. Terror Cash The other countries included in the military aid are Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan and Uganda. (New Era, Aug. 12) www.newera.com.na/page.php?id=8635 The Coup In Mauritania The release of the terror suspects may give the impression that Pres. Abdallahi was soft on terrorism. But this was not the excuse General Abdel Aziz gave... (OPED Nigerian Tribune, Aug. 12) www.tribune.com.ng/12082008/edit.html

U.S. Intelligence To Work Closer With Tanzania U.S. Amb. to Tanzania, Mark Green, said that following the terrorist attack, counter terrorism capabilities of both countries have gone stronger and the U.S. has been more committed(Africa News, Aug. 7) www.africanews.com/site/list_messages/19829 Militants War Imminent Over Plot To Bomb Azazis Hometown (Nigeria) There are fears that the situation could degenerate into war within the next two days if steps are not taken to halt the movement of troops and militia into the area around both Peretorugbene and Agge(Nigeria Business Day, Aug. 10) www.businessdayonline.com/national/14365.html New Bird Flu Strain Detected In Nigeria: FAO Lab results from Nigeria and a Food and Agriculture reference laboratory in Italy show that the newly discovered virus strain is genetically different from the strains that circulated in Nigeria in 2006(PHYSORG, Aug. 11) www.physorg.com/news137747545.html Muhoozi's Special Forces to Protect National Assets (Uganda) The creation of Special Forces within the UPDF is to respond to security challenges Uganda is expected to face when it joins the world's oil producing countries(All Africa, Aug. 9) http://allafrica.com/stories/200808090103.html Drug Cartels Feeling The Heat (Mexico) Mex. Congressman David Figueroa already had survived two assassination tries when federal intelligence officials passed the news to him(Miami Herald, Aug. 10) www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/635770.html U.S. Guns Arm Mexican Drug Cartels High-powered automatic weapons and ammunition are flowing virtually unchecked from border states into Mexico, fueling a war among drug traffickers, the army and police(LA Times, Aug. 10) www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-guns10-2008aug10,0,3497661.story Nicaragua's FARC Offer Rebuffed An offer by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to hold talks with Colombia's Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) guerrillas has been rejected by the government in Bogota. (Inside Costa Rica, Aug. 12) http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2008/august/12/reg01.htm Peace Talks With ELN In Danger After Cauca Massacre ELN may be excluded from peace talks if proven its responsible for the massacre of ten people in Cauca(Colombia Reports, Aug. 11) http://colombiareports.com/2008/08/11/peace-talks-with-eln-in-danger-after-cauca-massacre/ Facebook And Myspace Are 'Hacker Playgrounds' Opportunities for mischief abound as users place intimate details of their lives on profile pages(Courier Mail Australia, Aug. 11) www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24160431-8362,00.html Homeland Security Bills Move Forward This bill would require the Homeland Security secretary to use open-source information to develop and disseminate open-source homeland security information products. (Washington Technology, Aug. 11) www.washingtontechnology.com/print/23_13/33297-1.html 'Missing Person' Turned LTTE Suicide Bomber (Sri Lanka) The most treacherous part of the terror tactics is the use of various bogus rights groups to bring pressure on the govt. to relax counter terror measures. The aim of such groups is to protect the under cover terror agents (Sir Lanka Ministry of Defense, Aug. 10) www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20080809_05 Philippine Troops Attack Rebels Occupying Towns Philippine troops attacked Muslim guerrillas yesterday, setting off fierce exchanges of machine gun and artillery fire in a southern province after hundreds of rebels defied an ultimatum to withdraw from Christian villages(Kuwait Times,

Aug. 11) www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MjU1NjgzMTQx Families Of Islamist Militants Protest In Front Of Military Court (Lebanon) The militants were arrested last year following the almost four-month battle between Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese Armed Forces at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp(Lebanon Daily Star, Aug. 12) www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=94981

A Look at Terrorist Behavior: How They Prepare, Where They Strike the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) launched a series of projects to explore patterns of terrorist behavior.[2] In the first of these projects, a panel of experts[3] was assembled to examine 60 case studies involving terrorist incidents in the U.S. during the past 25 yearsThe panel looked at the homes of the terrorists, the locations of planning and preparation, and the sites of the terrorist incidents to discover whether any patterns emerged. (U.S. DoJ NIJ Journal, July ed.) www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/260/terrorist-behavior.htm

SIGINT Estonia, Google Help 'Cyber-Locked' Georgia Civil,ge, the Georgian news site, is "under permanent [cyber] attack." So they've switched their operations to one of Google's Blogspot domains(Wired Danger Room Wired Blog, Aug. 11) http://blog.wired.com/defense/ Georgia under Online Assault The websites of Georgia's government have been under DoS attacks for weeks (Wired Danger Room Wired Blog, Aug. 10) http://blog.wired.com/defense/

A First Ever Look Inside the DEFCON Network Operations Center Over 9,000 hackers, freaks, feds and geeks are gathered in Las Vegas for DEFCON(Wired Danger Room Blog, Aug. 10) http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/a-first-ever-lo.html DEFCON Ends With Researchers Muzzled, Viruses Written The highlight was most definitely the restraining order which

prevented three MIT students from presenting their research on how to hack the Boston subway system. (CNet News, Aug. 10) http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10013156-83.html Analyst Comment: The PDF of the Muzzled Presentation on How to Hack the Boston Subway Station is available on the Cryptome Website at http://www.cryptome.org/ from an e-mail list serve. The postings of presentation files are followed with the message Sig from a major U.S. library: This message may have been intercepted and read by U.S. government agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA without notice or warrant or knowledge of sender or recipient." Use it, pass it on. Replace US agencies with your own. Replace "message" with your web site, mail list, chat room, news group, telephone, fax, wireless, radio, electronic emanations, electromagnetic spectrum Flying To DEFCON With No ID -- Yes You Can! The TSA changed its policy in June, barring travelers who refuse to show ID from flying but allowing cooperative passengers who have lost or otherwise don't have their papers to pass through. (Computer World, Aug. 11) www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9112202&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_feat Cracking High-Security Locks Is Child's Play: Experts Security specialists on Sunday (Aug. 10) showed that cracking top-rated locks said to secure the U.S. Pentagon and Britain's royal family is child's play. (AFP, Aug.11) http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHFiAfvm4GIxEexryTWQN9dSpoLg New Tool to Automate Cookie Stealing from Gmail, Others A security researcher at the DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas on Saturday (Aug. 9) demonstrated a tool he built that allows attackers to break into your inbox even if you are accessing your Gmail over a persistent, encrypted session (using https:// versus http://). (Washington Post Security Fix, Aug. 10) http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/new_tool_automates_cookie_stea.html?nav=rss_blog DEFCON 16 -- iPhone Used to Hack Wireless Systems An iPhone was used as a wireless packet sniffer as it moved from location to location. (Tech Tree, Aug. 11) www.techtree.com/India/News/Defcon_16_--_iPhone_Used_to_Hack_Wireless_Systems/551-92009-582.html Mobile Firms Told To Jam Signals along Borders (India) Fearing that spillage of mobile signals over international borders is facilitating communications between terrorists and anti-national elements, the govt. has asked mobile companies to install equipment to neutralize radio signals(India Statesman, Aug. 11) www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=2&theme=&usrsess=1&id=217904 Hack in the Box WSLabi, as the company is known, verifies reports of security holes and then auctions the info. to the highest bidder. So far, the company has confirmed about 120 vulnerabilities and successfully sold about 80(Sydney Morning Herald, Aug. 11) www.smh.com.au/news/security/hack-in-the-box/2008/08/09/1218139161660.html

U.S. National Counterintelligence Executive Warns Of Spying In China During Olympics Dr. Joel Brenner, National Counterintelligence Executive at the Office of National Intelligence warned travelers to be aware that China can or will intercept communications. (Australia To, Aug. 10) www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=401:chinese-authorities-can-intercept-messages-during-olympics&catid=1:latest Surfing Google May Be Harmful To Your Security DEFCON A well-known researcher specializing in website security has strongly criticized safety on Google, arguing the world's biggest search engine needlessly puts its millions of users at risk. (UK Register, Aug. 9) www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/09/google_gadget_threats/ USB Dongle Brings Freedom Of The Press To Chinese Bloggers This German creation is a USB drive that costs about $20 US and comes pre-loaded with software which will get around and frustrate any monitoring software and firewalls by masking computer communications and bouncing it around the world and back through a wide network of anonymous computers(Coolest Gadgets, Aug. 8) www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080808/usb-dongle-brings-freedom-of-the-press-to-chinese-bloggers/ Traveling Overseas with Mobile Phones, Laptops, PDAs, and Other Electronic DevicesIf feasible, use a different mobile phone or PDA from your usual one and remove the battery when not in use. In any case, have the device examined by your agency or company when you return. (Office of the National Counter Intelligence Executive, Aug. 5) www.ncix.gov/whatsnew/index.html Keylogger Spy Software V315 Is Out All In One Keylogger is an invisible surveillance tool that registers every activity on your pc to encrypted logs. (Express Pres Release, Aug. 10) www.express-press-release.net/52/Keylogger%20Spy%20Software%20V315%20Is%20Out.php Weapons, Emerging Weapons Technology & Emerging Commercial Of The Shelf Technologies

Invisibility Cloak Now Within Sight: Scientists (Update 2) Shown is a schematic and two scanning electron microscope images with top and side views of a metamaterial developed by UC Berkeley researchers. The material is composed of parallel nanowires embedded inside porous aluminum oxide. As visible light passes through the material, it is bent backwards in a phenomenon known as negative refraction. Credit: Image by Jie Yao, UC Berkeley(PHYSORG, Aug. 11) www.physorg.com/news137649366.html U.S. to Sell Restricted Spy Aircraft to Korea The U.S. has notified the Korean government that it will sell it the Global Hawk(Cho Sun, Aug. 11) http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200808/200808110007.html 'We'll Neutralize S-300 If They're Sold To Iran' While Russia has denied that it sold the system to Iran, Teheran claimed last year that Moscow was preparing to equip the Islamic Republic with S-300 systems. Iran already has TOR-M1 SAMs from Russia. (Jerusalem Post, Aug. 8)

www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218104239541&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Israel Warns Hezbollah: We Won't Tolerate Arms Smuggling During the meeting, the ministers were updated on continued Syrian transfers of advanced military hardware to Hezbollah, including air defense systems (Haaretz, Aug. 8) www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1009384.html Remote-Control Warriors Suffer War Stress The Air National Guardsmen who operate Predator drones over Iraq via remote control, launching deadly missile attacks from the safety of Southern California 7,000 miles away, are suffering some of the same psychological stresses as their comrades on the battlefield. (MSNBC, Aug. 7) www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26078087/ If you would like to be added or deleted from the weekly 304th MI Bn OSINT distribution list please e-mail sarah.e.womer@us.army.mil.