America is losing the cyber war not because of terrorists or hackers, but because one of their main enemies was, and is, the glacial pace of their own government to adapt and change to new technology. They also know that demand for their services is high. These men are not bespectacled nerds yelling “I’m in!” but they are combat vets pushing 60 with the usual assortment of paunches, bad necks, fading vision, military pension checks and about 150 combined years of experience fighting terrorists on the electronic and mud battlefields. Like a comic book super team, each has an unusual skill in addition to their military and intel training hacking, jamming, disinformation, Psyops, etc, all honed in real world counter terrorism missions and now available for hire. The “black” teams that support Special Mission Units and covert operations that go as far back as Angola and 80’s Afghanistan. Five men each with deep experience singularly and collectively inside the CIA, NSA, JSOC, NASA, SEALS and other government agencies. I am on a conference call with the members of SybrTek (the name has been changed at the companies request), a new Texas-based cyber security and big data startup that could be described as the real world equivalent of the Cyber Expendables. Giuliani no stranger to the media but not known for his cyber security skills had appeared on Fox and Friends the day before to boast about his new cyber security effort. Giuliani’s cyber team had knocked off for the weekend at noon. The timing of the hack less than a few hours later is not a coincidence.
A few hours earlier Giuliani, head of a cyber security provider and senior advisor to a law firm was just announced as Trump’s guru on cyber security for the President Elect. It’s midnight in Manhattan, Friday January 13 th, 2017 and someone is hacking into Rudolph Giuliani’s server at his corporate headquarters. Note: The name of the cyber company and the owners have been changed.
Sometimes What You Think Happened Is What Someone Wants You To Think Happened. Cyber-warfare specialists serving with the 175th Cyberspace Operations Group of the Maryland Air National Guard (U.S.
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