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Titan Rain was a series of coordinated attacks on computer systems in the United States since 2003; they were known to have been ongoing for at least three years. [1] The attacks originated in Guangdong, China. [2] The activity is believed to be associated with a state-sponsored advanced persistent threat. It was given the designation Titan ...
In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks. It began when an infected flash drive was inserted into a U.S. military laptop at a base in the Middle East. The flash drive's malicious computer code, placed there by a foreign intelligence agency, uploaded itself onto a ...
This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).
A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means. The term has become associated in popular culture with a security hacker – someone with knowledge of bugs or exploits to break into computer systems and access data which would otherwise be inaccessible to them. In a positive connotation, though ...
White hat (computer security) A white hat (or a white-hat hacker, a whitehat) is an ethical security hacker. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Ethical hacking is a term meant to imply a broader category than just penetration testing. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Under the owner's consent, white-hat hackers aim to identify any vulnerabilities or security issues the current system has ...
Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish [1] systems administrator and hacker who was accused by a US prosecutor in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time". [2] McKinnon said that he was looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially ...
August: Kevin Mitnick, is sentenced to 5 years, of which over 4 years had already been spent pre-trial including 8 months' solitary confinement. September: Level Seven Crew hacks the U.S. Embassy in China 's website and places racist, anti-government slogans on embassy site in regards to 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.
Breach: a gap in fortified or battle lines. Breakout: exploiting a breach in enemy lines so that a large force (division or above) passes through. Bridgehead and its varieties known as beachheads and airheads. Camouflet. Chalk: a group of paratroopers or other soldiers that deploy from a single aircraft.