Cyberattacks Target Oil in the Middle East

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  October 25th at 06:30 PM  | 

According to an article in The New York Times, on August 15 of this year a successful cyberattack struck Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company and the world’s largest oil producer. The virus-based attack wiped the hard drives of 30,000 personal computers, three-fourths of the company’s internal network, replacing data files with the image of a burning American flag. Damage was limited to the corporate | Read More »

Tech at Saturday Morning: Google’s FTC problem; Panetta unhinged on cybersecurity

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 13th at 12:30 PM  | 

Funny how Google says they can’t fix Googlebombs when the fact is, Google is constantly improving its search algorithms. After all, the Bush-era Googlebombs of WhiteHouse.gov disappeared pretty quick after Obama was elected.

Stuff like this is why I don’t expect Google’s regulatory problems to go away in the event of a Romney win. Google has left its systems open (Blogger, Search, Youtube) for the left to abuse the right, and has been slow to react. It’s going to be very easy for the left wing of the GOP to get talked into expanding government to come after them, unfortunately.

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Look Into A Distant Mirror

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 20th at 12:00 PM  | 

“The behaviour depicted absolutely violates our regulations and, more importantly, our core values,” he said. “This is not who we are and it is certainly not who we represent when it comes to the great majority of men and women in uniform who are serving there. This is war. I know war is ugly and is violent. I know that young people sometimes caught up | Read More »

Do We Need “International Permission” to Go to War?

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  March 13th at 10:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Brett Schaefer to discuss Leon Panetta’s recent testimony about seeking “international permission” before going to war, the damage control DOD is now doing on Panetta’s comments and how this influences potential action in Iran. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and | Read More »

Leon (Panetta), you ignorant slut.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 18th at 08:00 AM  | 

India is an ALLY, fool. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in remarks Thursday, ranked U.S. ally India with China as a rising threat to the U.S. in Asia. The Pentagon quickly sought to roll back the remarks. “We face the threats from rising powers — China, India, others — that we have to always have sufficient force protection out there in the Pacific to make sure | Read More »

CIA chief: Waterboarding aided bin Laden raid

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 4th at 06:00 AM  | 

If you haven’t read this piece by Dan McLaughlin, consider it your must read of the day. For the past 48 hours, lefties have been falling all over themselves and contorting themselves in knots to downplay enhanced interrogations and the role waterboarding might have played in getting Bin Laden. One of the most humorous contortions came from Spencer Ackerman, a lefty hack who has taken | Read More »

Shuffling the Deck Chairs, Yet Again

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  April 27th at 02:35 PM  | 

In the most recent Obama administration shake up, Bob Gates will be leaving the Department of Defense, Leon Pannetta will move from the CIA to DoD, General David Petraeus will move from Afghanistan to the CIA and Ryan Crocker will move from Texas A&M (from whence came Bob Gates) to Afghanistan. As in the previous major changes in the White House staff and the economic | Read More »