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Exclusive: Government officials around the globe targeted for hacking through WhatsApp
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior government officials in multiple U.S.-allied countries were targeted earlier this year with hacking software that used Facebook Inc's (FB.O) WhatsApp to take over users' phones, according to people familiar with the messaging company's investigation.
Sources familiar with WhatsApp’s internal investigation into the breach said a “significant” portion of the known victims are high-profile government and military officials spread across at least 20 countries on five continents. Many of the nations are U.S. allies, they said.
The hacking of a wider group of top government officials' smartphones than previously reported suggests the WhatsApp cyber intrusion could have broad political and diplomatic consequences.
WhatsApp filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Israeli hacking tool developer NSO Group. The Facebook-owned software giant alleges that NSO Group built and sold a hacking platform that exploited a flaw in WhatsApp-owned servers to help clients hack into the cellphones of at least 1,400 users between April 29, 2019, and May 10, 2019.
The total number of WhatsApp users hacked could be even higher. A London-based human rights lawyer, who was among the targets, sent Reuters photographs showing attempts to break into his phone dating back to April 1.
While it is not clear who used the software to hack officials' phones, NSO has said it sells its spyware exclusively to government customers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior government officials in multiple U.S.-allied countries were targeted earlier this year with hacking software that used Facebook Inc's (FB.O) WhatsApp to take over users' phones, according to people familiar with the messaging company's investigation.
Sources familiar with WhatsApp’s internal investigation into the breach said a “significant” portion of the known victims are high-profile government and military officials spread across at least 20 countries on five continents. Many of the nations are U.S. allies, they said.
The hacking of a wider group of top government officials' smartphones than previously reported suggests the WhatsApp cyber intrusion could have broad political and diplomatic consequences.
WhatsApp filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Israeli hacking tool developer NSO Group. The Facebook-owned software giant alleges that NSO Group built and sold a hacking platform that exploited a flaw in WhatsApp-owned servers to help clients hack into the cellphones of at least 1,400 users between April 29, 2019, and May 10, 2019.
The total number of WhatsApp users hacked could be even higher. A London-based human rights lawyer, who was among the targets, sent Reuters photographs showing attempts to break into his phone dating back to April 1.
While it is not clear who used the software to hack officials' phones, NSO has said it sells its spyware exclusively to government customers.
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https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1XA27N
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The US Military's New Tech Will Identify Faces from 1km Away
https://beebom.com/us-militarys-new-tech-identify-faces-1km-away
#biometrics #facial #recognition #usa #military #why
https://beebom.com/us-militarys-new-tech-identify-faces-1km-away
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The US Military's New Tech Will Identify Faces from 1km Away | Beebom
With the recent developments in the facial recognition technology, the US Military is developing a portable camera that can identify a face from 1KM away.
U.S. Army Awards Pocket-Sized Drones $20.6 Million Contract
https://interestingengineering.com/us-army-awards-pocket-sized-drones-206-million-contract
FLIR System's drone weighs 33 grams and the U.S. army is buying it in bulk.
Nano drones have become a major military tool over the past few years, and the most recent announcement of FLIR Systems being awarded an additional $20.6 million contract for their Black Hornet 3 Personal Reconnaissance Systems (PRS) by the U.S. Army is one big example of that.
While the contract is huge, the FLIR Systems Black Hornet 3 is only the size of a cellphone. This extremely light and nearly silent drone can fly up to 25 minutes, and provide many military advantages in combat.
#drones #usa #military #gov
https://interestingengineering.com/us-army-awards-pocket-sized-drones-206-million-contract
FLIR System's drone weighs 33 grams and the U.S. army is buying it in bulk.
Nano drones have become a major military tool over the past few years, and the most recent announcement of FLIR Systems being awarded an additional $20.6 million contract for their Black Hornet 3 Personal Reconnaissance Systems (PRS) by the U.S. Army is one big example of that.
While the contract is huge, the FLIR Systems Black Hornet 3 is only the size of a cellphone. This extremely light and nearly silent drone can fly up to 25 minutes, and provide many military advantages in combat.
#drones #usa #military #gov
Interesting Engineering
U.S. Army Orders of the Pocket-Sized Drones Top $ 85 Million
U.S. Army awarded FLIR Systems an additional contract worth $15.4 million to provide the service with miniature reconnaissance drones.
New records show Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have thousands of previously unreported military and law enforcement contracts
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-amazon-pentagon-law-enforcement-contracts-2020-7
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https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-amazon-pentagon-law-enforcement-contracts-2020-7
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Business Insider
New records show Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have thousands of previously unreported military and law enforcement contracts
Rank-and-file tech employees have pressured their employers to drop military contracts in recent years.
The U.S. Army was holding fake Twitch draws to recruit young people
Twitch has forced the military to withdraw the deception, but they have a promotional agreement with them.
The U.S. military has a channel on Twitch to promote its eSports team, which is part of an initiative to attract the country's young people to a career in the military. However, the promotion has gotten out of hand: Twitch has threatened the military with the closure of its channel after detecting them conducting a fake raffle with non-existent prizes that served to redirect unwary young people to a form for enlistment.
The strategy was to promise prizes that did not exist, such as commands and other peripherals, to get the data of young people with a system that led them to sign a document that committed them to be recruited, according to The Nation.
Several adult users became aware of the deception and began to publicly point out the practice. The fake promotions were made in the Twitch chat room. The promotion promised a prize draw for an Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, but the links actually sent the user to a recruiting page where there was no reference to any kind of draw, prizes, or any of the information that should be in a supposed draw. It was simply the page to sign up, camouflaged to deceive the user
Following public pressure, Twitch has forced the US military to cease these activities. "According to our terms of use, promotions at Twitch must comply with all applicable laws," the company said in a statement to Kotaku. "This promotion did not comply with our regulations and we have requested that it be withdrawn.
The military has not taken a position on this apparent deception aimed at young people, but the truth is that in the United States there has been a sharp increase in military advertising on the platform as it has become one of the official sponsors of Twitch Rivals, the company's channel. It is not known what the cost of this advertising contract has been, but it could be millions according to some sources consulted by Kotaku.
This has caused many users to start trolling the army channel asking them about war crimes committed by the U.S. and there are even groups competing to see who gets kicked out fastest on both Twitch and Discord.
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https://vandal.elespanol.com/noticia/1350736282/el-ejercito-estadounidense-hacia-falsos-sorteos-en-twitch-para-reclutar-jovenes
#twitch #military #army #usa #gov #propaganda
Twitch has forced the military to withdraw the deception, but they have a promotional agreement with them.
The U.S. military has a channel on Twitch to promote its eSports team, which is part of an initiative to attract the country's young people to a career in the military. However, the promotion has gotten out of hand: Twitch has threatened the military with the closure of its channel after detecting them conducting a fake raffle with non-existent prizes that served to redirect unwary young people to a form for enlistment.
The strategy was to promise prizes that did not exist, such as commands and other peripherals, to get the data of young people with a system that led them to sign a document that committed them to be recruited, according to The Nation.
Several adult users became aware of the deception and began to publicly point out the practice. The fake promotions were made in the Twitch chat room. The promotion promised a prize draw for an Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, but the links actually sent the user to a recruiting page where there was no reference to any kind of draw, prizes, or any of the information that should be in a supposed draw. It was simply the page to sign up, camouflaged to deceive the user
Following public pressure, Twitch has forced the US military to cease these activities. "According to our terms of use, promotions at Twitch must comply with all applicable laws," the company said in a statement to Kotaku. "This promotion did not comply with our regulations and we have requested that it be withdrawn.
The military has not taken a position on this apparent deception aimed at young people, but the truth is that in the United States there has been a sharp increase in military advertising on the platform as it has become one of the official sponsors of Twitch Rivals, the company's channel. It is not known what the cost of this advertising contract has been, but it could be millions according to some sources consulted by Kotaku.
This has caused many users to start trolling the army channel asking them about war crimes committed by the U.S. and there are even groups competing to see who gets kicked out fastest on both Twitch and Discord.
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https://vandal.elespanol.com/noticia/1350736282/el-ejercito-estadounidense-hacia-falsos-sorteos-en-twitch-para-reclutar-jovenes
#twitch #military #army #usa #gov #propaganda
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El ejército estadounidense hacía falsos sorteos en Twitch para reclutar jóvenes
Twitch ha forzado a los militares a retirar el engaño, pero mantienen un acuerdo promocional con ellos.
NSA urges military personnel to turn off cellphone location data
The National Security Agency is urging US military and intelligence personnel to turn off location-sharing services on their cellphones to prevent security breaches.
The secretive intelligence agency warned in a bulletin Tuesday that the common app feature can pose a real threat to national security, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Location-sharing can be critical for the function of apps like Google Maps, but the information it collects about users’ whereabouts is also collected by tech companies that then sell the anonymized data to marketers and advertisers.
https://nypost.com/2020/08/04/nsa-presses-military-to-turn-off-cell-phone-location-data/
#us #NSA #military #phone #location
The National Security Agency is urging US military and intelligence personnel to turn off location-sharing services on their cellphones to prevent security breaches.
The secretive intelligence agency warned in a bulletin Tuesday that the common app feature can pose a real threat to national security, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Location-sharing can be critical for the function of apps like Google Maps, but the information it collects about users’ whereabouts is also collected by tech companies that then sell the anonymized data to marketers and advertisers.
https://nypost.com/2020/08/04/nsa-presses-military-to-turn-off-cell-phone-location-data/
#us #NSA #military #phone #location
Soldiers could teach future robots how to outperform humans
In the future, a Soldier and a game controller may be all that's needed to teach robots how to outdrive humans.
At the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin, researchers designed an algorithm that allows an autonomous ground vehicle to improve its existing navigation systems by watching a human drive. The team tested its approach -- called adaptive planner parameter learning from demonstration, or APPLD -- on one of the Army's experimental autonomous ground vehicles.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200812144008.htm
#US #Army #Military #Robot
In the future, a Soldier and a game controller may be all that's needed to teach robots how to outdrive humans.
At the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin, researchers designed an algorithm that allows an autonomous ground vehicle to improve its existing navigation systems by watching a human drive. The team tested its approach -- called adaptive planner parameter learning from demonstration, or APPLD -- on one of the Army's experimental autonomous ground vehicles.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200812144008.htm
#US #Army #Military #Robot
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2020-DOD-CHINA-MILITARY-POWER-REPORT-FINAL.PDF
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Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2020
Annual Report to Congress - A Report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act forFiscal Year 2000, as Amended.
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👀 👉🏼 China ‘eyes four African nations for military bases’:
https://citinewsroom.com/2020/09/china-eyes-four-african-nations-for-military-bases/
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Annual Report to Congress - A Report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act forFiscal Year 2000, as Amended.
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Pentagon & Google Partner On COVID-Driven AI “Predictive Health” & The Wuhan Chinese Virologist
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/pentagon-google-partner-on-covid-driven-ai-predictive-health-wuhan-chinese-virologist
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnjqh-tELg
#ai #Google #amazon #apple #pentagon #military #usa #gov #why
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/pentagon-google-partner-on-covid-driven-ai-predictive-health-wuhan-chinese-virologist
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‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI
Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots?
The video is stark. Two menacing men stand next to a white van in a field, holding remote controls. They open the van’s back doors, and the whining sound of quadcopter drones crescendos. They flip a switch, and the drones swarm out like bats from a cave. In a few seconds, we cut to a college classroom. The killer robots flood in through windows and vents. The students scream in terror, trapped inside, as the drones attack with deadly force. The lesson that the film, Slaughterbots, is trying to impart is clear: tiny killer robots are either here or a small technological advance away. Terrorists could easily deploy them. And existing defences are weak or nonexistent.
Some military experts argued that Slaughterbots – which was made by the Future of Life Institute, an organisation researching existential threats to humanity – sensationalised a serious problem, stoking fear where calm reflection was required. But when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry. The US air force has predicted a future in which “Swat teams will send mechanical insects equipped with video cameras to creep inside a building during a hostage standoff”. One “microsystems collaborative” has already released Octoroach, an “extremely small robot with a camera and radio transmitter that can cover up to 100 metres on the ground”. It is only one of many “biomimetic”, or nature-imitating, weapons that are on the horizon.
Who knows how many other noxious creatures are now models for avant garde military theorists. A recent novel by PW Singer and August Cole, set in a near future in which the US is at war with China and Russia, presented a kaleidoscopic vision of autonomous drones, lasers and hijacked satellites. The book cannot be written off as a techno-military fantasy: it includes hundreds of footnotes documenting the development of each piece of hardware and software it describes.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/15/dangerous-rise-of-military-ai-drone-swarm-autonomous-weapons
slaughterbots video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
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UK Military Develops Drone With a Double Barreled Shotgun
https://futurism.com/the-byte/uk-military-drone-double-barreled-shotgun
Cheap drones from China, Turkey and Israel are fueling conflicts like Armenia and Azerbaijan's
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/cheap-drones-china-turkey-israel-are-fueling-conflicts-armenia-azerbaijan-ncna1243246
5G trial to test drones for improved port surveillance
https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/5g-trial-to-test-drones-for-improved-port-surveillance
Qualcomm Brings 5G And AI To Next Gen Robotics And Drones
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2020/06/17/qualcomm-brings-5g-and-ai-to-next-gen-robotics-and-drones/
#AI #military #drones
Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots?
The video is stark. Two menacing men stand next to a white van in a field, holding remote controls. They open the van’s back doors, and the whining sound of quadcopter drones crescendos. They flip a switch, and the drones swarm out like bats from a cave. In a few seconds, we cut to a college classroom. The killer robots flood in through windows and vents. The students scream in terror, trapped inside, as the drones attack with deadly force. The lesson that the film, Slaughterbots, is trying to impart is clear: tiny killer robots are either here or a small technological advance away. Terrorists could easily deploy them. And existing defences are weak or nonexistent.
Some military experts argued that Slaughterbots – which was made by the Future of Life Institute, an organisation researching existential threats to humanity – sensationalised a serious problem, stoking fear where calm reflection was required. But when it comes to the future of war, the line between science fiction and industrial fact is often blurry. The US air force has predicted a future in which “Swat teams will send mechanical insects equipped with video cameras to creep inside a building during a hostage standoff”. One “microsystems collaborative” has already released Octoroach, an “extremely small robot with a camera and radio transmitter that can cover up to 100 metres on the ground”. It is only one of many “biomimetic”, or nature-imitating, weapons that are on the horizon.
Who knows how many other noxious creatures are now models for avant garde military theorists. A recent novel by PW Singer and August Cole, set in a near future in which the US is at war with China and Russia, presented a kaleidoscopic vision of autonomous drones, lasers and hijacked satellites. The book cannot be written off as a techno-military fantasy: it includes hundreds of footnotes documenting the development of each piece of hardware and software it describes.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/15/dangerous-rise-of-military-ai-drone-swarm-autonomous-weapons
slaughterbots video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
Related post https://t.me/NoGoolag/4150
UK Military Develops Drone With a Double Barreled Shotgun
https://futurism.com/the-byte/uk-military-drone-double-barreled-shotgun
Cheap drones from China, Turkey and Israel are fueling conflicts like Armenia and Azerbaijan's
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/cheap-drones-china-turkey-israel-are-fueling-conflicts-armenia-azerbaijan-ncna1243246
5G trial to test drones for improved port surveillance
https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/5g-trial-to-test-drones-for-improved-port-surveillance
Qualcomm Brings 5G And AI To Next Gen Robotics And Drones
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2020/06/17/qualcomm-brings-5g-and-ai-to-next-gen-robotics-and-drones/
#AI #military #drones
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‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI
The long read: Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots?
How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed connected to this sort of data sale is a Muslim prayer and Quran app that has more than 98 million downloads worldwide. Others include a Muslim dating app, a popular Craigslist app, an app for following storms, and a "level" app that can be used to help, for example, install shelves in a bedroom.
Through public records, interviews with developers, and technical analysis, Motherboard uncovered two separate, parallel data streams that the U.S. military uses, or has used, to obtain location data. One relies on a company called Babel Street, which creates a product called Locate X. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a branch of the military tasked with counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and special reconnaissance, bought access to Locate X to assist on overseas special forces operations. The other stream is through a company called X-Mode, which obtains location data directly from apps, then sells that data to contractors, and by extension, the military.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x
#US #military #intelligence #privacy #location #why
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed connected to this sort of data sale is a Muslim prayer and Quran app that has more than 98 million downloads worldwide. Others include a Muslim dating app, a popular Craigslist app, an app for following storms, and a "level" app that can be used to help, for example, install shelves in a bedroom.
Through public records, interviews with developers, and technical analysis, Motherboard uncovered two separate, parallel data streams that the U.S. military uses, or has used, to obtain location data. One relies on a company called Babel Street, which creates a product called Locate X. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a branch of the military tasked with counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and special reconnaissance, bought access to Locate X to assist on overseas special forces operations. The other stream is through a company called X-Mode, which obtains location data directly from apps, then sells that data to contractors, and by extension, the military.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x
#US #military #intelligence #privacy #location #why
Vice
How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.