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Reportedly, the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Special Operations Command have disabled mobile advertising IDs on government-issued phones and computers. The move follows concerns that commercially available location data has been used to target American forces in the Middle East. It became public after Senator Ron Wyden released letters, h…
In a PWNED column, SolarWinds CISO Justin Henkel, a former US Air Force IT security specialist, recounts that in the early 2000s pilots and mission planners moved mission data between unclassified and classified systems using CDs and later USB thumb drives. Personnel often bought the drives from local vendors, for example in Kabul, rather…
The US Department of Defense has confirmed a breach of the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), one of its main personnel data repositories. The breach exposed sensitive data on roughly 2.76 million people plus about 294,000 deceased individuals. Unauthorised users reportedly accessed files between October 2025 and 16 July 2026, and the i…
A reader comment on Schneier on Security (Clive Robinson, 14 Oct 2026), posted under a thread about connected fridges in France, cites a Stars and Stripes report of refrigeration outages at US military commissary stores. Army CID's Cyber Field Office and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations confirmed active investigations, with …
Robert Wayne Boling Jr., a 45-year-old US citizen living in Angeles City, Philippines, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, the US Department of Justice announced. Prosecutors call him the principal orchestrator of a scheme that used stolen PII to compromise bank accounts of thousands of US servicemember…
Flashpoint's weekly Middle East brief for October 9-15 describes sustained kinetic escalation alongside cyber and information operations. Ansarallah (Houthis) ran a multi-day missile, drone and cruise-missile campaign against King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. It killed at least 14 people and closed the airport through at least …
