ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Friday claimed to have assisted almost 1,500 commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz in recent months, allowing for the passage of nearly 750 million barrels of oil through the contested waterway. In a video statement, CENTCOM chief Admiral Brad Cooper declared that efforts…
As a teenager, I was capable of hacking into critical municipal infrastructure. I wasn’t an elite operator, but I knew where the vulnerabilities were and how to get around systems that weren’t even protected in the first place. From default passwords to open ports, attackers don’t need to be brilliant when defenders leave doors open. This approach is exactly how Iranian-linked hackers locked…
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe paid an unannounced visit to Moscow yesterday, spending eight hours in the Russian capital before returning to the US. Though he visited the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied that they had met – though Ratcliffe certainly spoke to his counterpart Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s SVR external…
Footage has emerged showing workers in a desperate race of survival as a huge wall of water came crashing towards them during a devastating flood that swept through Nepal’s Rasuwa region on Wednesday. Nepal is facing what officials have described as ‘devastation beyond imagination’ after a ‘tsunami from the sky’ battered the area following a glacier…
Every day, Americans walk into hospitals trusting that the machines keeping watch over their hearts are working for them. Most have no idea that some of those machines may be working for Communist China. Last year, FDA and federal cybersecurity officials issued a warning about a patient monitor called the Contec CMS8000, a medical device used routinely in…
A US ally in the Middle East has finally cut off Iran — and it could be one of the biggest threats to the regime yet. The United Arab Emirates, which serves as Tehran’s largest supplier of goods, suspended all trade with the Iran over the weekend — nixing $6 billion in cash that went…
Greetings from Tyler, Now the news is trying to make something of Trump’s relationship with his aide, Natalie Harp. If you were married to Melania, I don’t think Natalie Harp would spark an interest. I hope there’s nothing to it. If he allowed the media to break up his marriage and there wasn’t anything to…
NATO scrambled fighter jets to destroy a marine drone reportedly loaded with explosives spotted close to a crucial Black Sea gas project. Romania spotted the threat around Neptun Deep and quickly sent out F-16 jets to blast away the drone as officials accused Russia of being behind the dangerous act. The drone got within a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The national debt surpassed a record $40 trillion on Wednesday, a staggering milestone as defense costs, social programs like Social Security and Medicare and interest on the burgeoning deficit make up an enormous share of federal spending. The milestone figure was recorded just five months after the U.S. hit a record $39…
SINGAPORE/LONDON/NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury’s surprise bond buyback failed to quell lingering concerns about inflation and expanding government debt, as bond yields rose on Thursday, dragging the dollar higher as well. The Treasury responded on Wednesday to U.S. long-bond yields hitting the highest level since 2007 by doubling long-end buybacks to…