Black Market Sold Drones Used in Russian Base Attack

The Kremlin may have accused the United States of a drone swarm attack on its naval base in Syria. But The Daily Beast found the drones for sale on a social media arms market.

Nations Seek the Elusive Cure for Cyberattacks

WASHINGTON — When the “Wannacry” ransomware attack spread across Britain, Japan Russia, Taiwan and places in between last May, it took only a few days for private firms that looked at the code to come to some pretty quick conclusions. The attack almost certainly came from North Korea. The North Koreans almost certainly used computer code that had leaked from the inner sanctum of the National Security Agency. And the ransomware part was a scam: If you paid off the hackers, your data still wasn’t restored.

Cyber-attack risk on nuclear weapons systems 'relatively high' – thinktank

Lack of skilled staff, slowness of institutional change exposes UK and US capabilities, warns Chatham House
US, British and other nuclear weapons systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to a new study by the international relations thinktank Chatham House.

DARPA and NASA developing wartime service satellites to sabotage enemy satellites

The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, (DARPA) is collaborating with NASA to develop new robotic helper satellites….

Service satellites would also be a useful defensive tool for the Department of Defense and civilian agencies responsible for America’s constellation of communications, navigation, and spy satellites. In the event of war service satellites could inspect satellites for damage, repair them, and determine if they’ve been tampered with.

Plans for service satellites are all perfectly above board and fulfill an important role of protecting vital national assets. That having been said, satellite attacks would likely be the first shots in a serious war between major powers, as each side attempts to blind the other. Service satellites could go after enemy satellites in wartime, using their repair abilities to pluck the solar arrays or antennas off an adversary’s vital military communications satellite. A satellite that provides a new source of propulsion for an older one could also move an enemy satellite to danger, forcing it to crash back towards Earth in a fiery mess.