Archive for the 'InfoWar' Category

• 11.25.07 Bureau warns on tainted discs posted in InfoWar, International, News Monitor

  Hard disks sold in Taiwan contained trojan horse programs. The Taipei Times reports:

  Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.
  Around 1,800 [...]

• 11.5.07 ONI: Myanmar/Burma Internet Closure posted in Free Expression, InfoWar

  The OpenNet Initiative released a report documenting the Internet shutdown in Myanmar/Burma. Similar to the shutdown in Nepal after the King assumed power in a coup in 2005. Both of the ISPs cut their Internet access from September 29 to October 4 with the exception of a few brief periods of access. Also, the shutdown [...]

• 8.30.07 CENTCOM’s blog team. posted in Blogging, Free Expression, InfoWar

  It seems that I missed this article from 2006. The article discusses the creation of CENTCOM’s blog team.
  The team’s motto is “Engage,” and Flowers and others work with more than 250 bloggers to try to disseminate news about the good work being done by U.S. forces in the global war on terror.
  The blog team also [...]

• 9.4.06 Media Monitoring posted in InfoWar, Uncategorized

  AP reports:
  The U.S. command in Baghdad is seeking bidders for a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for monitoring the tone of Iraq news stories filed by U.S. and foreign media…
  The military last year was criticized for a public relations program in Iraq that included hiring a consulting firm that paid Iraqi news [...]

• 8.4.06 Israeli InfoWar posted in InfoWar, Uncategorized

  Bomb’s couldn’t take out Al-Manar, so Israel hacked their signal.

  In the middle of newscasts and programming from Hezbollah’s Al-Manar station, Israeli technicians are hacking the signal and replacing it with a 90-second spot that begins with a gun site superimposed on a crude drawing of Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, looking at the ground.
  The image [...]