NSA

Fear-based local social media rises, Google releases auto-transcribing, and Chinese hackers co-opt NSA tools. Today, thousands of Uber drivers are going on strike for better wages and working conditions. Drivers in at least eight cities in the US and several …

Ron Gula's career sounds like something out of a James Bond film. His early years were spent as a hacker for the National Security Agency, where he spent time "penetration testing" the US Department of Defense, simulating attacks from countries like China …

Forensic analysis shows a Chinese APT using Equation Group hacking tools at least a year before Shadow Brokers dumped its cache in April 2017.Hacking tools allegedly developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) were being used in the wild by at least one A…

Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for March. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for February. The CoreLogic HPI is a three month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA). From CoreLogic: CoreLogic Reports March Home Prices …

In a shocking revelation, it turns out that a hacking group believed to be sponsored by Chinese intelligence had been using some of the zero-day exploits linked to the NSA's Equation Group almost a year before the mysterious Shadow Brokers group leaked them.A…

Chinese spies acquired NSA hacking tools, used them to attack US allies...

Symantec: a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group co-opted and repurposed NSA hacking tools to attack US allies and private companies in Europe and Asia in 2016 (New York Times)

The Census Bureau will soon start hiring temporary workers for the 2020 Census. Temporary hiring will really increase in March, April and May of 2020, and then the jobs will finish in a few months. These are real jobs - frequently second jobs, or taken by sen…

The United States will send an aircraft carrier and a bomber task force to the Middle East in response to “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran, national security advisor John Bolton announced on Sunday. NEW: US is deploying an aircra…

From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Time Indicators. Graphs and excerpts reprinted with permission. Volumes for U.S. railroads in April 2019 were far from ideal, but they were much better than in March. Total carloads in April were down 0.9%…