NSA

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%…

from the some-bad-news,-worse-news,-and-indecipherable-news dept The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released the 2018 Transparency Report . In it, the ODNI covers the government's multiple surveillance programs, detailing (bu…

American server supplier Super Micro is dropping Chinese chips from its products, despite zero evidence ever emerging to support claims of spy chips installed in Apple and Amazon servers and a great deal of evidence to suggest that Bloomberg’s report was wron…