My Role in Information Warfare during the Yugoslav Wars

This morning I read a Tweet from @AirForceAssoc reminding me that: Today in Airpower History, August 30, 1995: NATO and U.S. aircraft began airstrikes on Serbian ground positions in Bosnia-Herzegovina to support the U.N. Operation Deliberate Force. The airstrikes, with a Bosnian-Croatian ground attack, convinced the Serbs to accept peace terms in late 1995. I'm not particularly fond of commemorating airpower campaigns, but the Tweet did remind me...

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Less Thrashing; More Queries (Part II)

These are more advanced event queries than my last post. Creating queries as psobject properties improves query speeds.More intra-message searches as calculated properties are included below. $Elements=New-Object PSObject -Property @{ Security_515X=get-winevent -ea 0 -max 50000 -filterhashtable @{logname='Security';ID=@(5156..5158)} System=get-winevent -ea 0 -max 10000 -filterhashtable @{logname='System'} Application=get-winevent -ea 0 -max 10000 -filterhashtable @{logname='Application'} } if ($All_Events) {rv -ea 0 All_Events} $global:Events=...

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Thrashing memory with queries...(Part I)

These are some event log search queries. They all trash my memory in any Powershell session.I have written them down for some reason. Probably so I can evolve more elegant solutions to such queries in the future.foreach ($i in @("a","b","c","d","e")) {if ($i) {rv -ea 0 $i}}$start=(get-winevent  -log security -max 1).TimeCreated$a=(get-winevent -ea 0 -max 50000 -filterhashtable @{logname='Security';ID=@(5156..5158)})$c=(get-winevent -ea 0 -log System -max 10000) | Select TimeCreated,ProcessID,ThreadID,Message$d=(get-winevent -ea 0 -log Application...

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The Best Way to Bypass the Great Firewall of China (Windows and Linux)

FreeGate is the way to go to freely use the Internet in ChinaUpdate: Click here for my review of other VPNs and ProxiesIf you have plans on going to China for vacation, or living there for any length of time, you will need to prepare to visit the Great Firewall of China. Visiting this tourist attraction is mandatory! As most people know, many websites are blocked in China. Mostly websites related to social interaction such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+...

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DOJ National Security Division Pursuing Cyber Espionage

I just read Justice Department trains prosecutors to combat cyber espionage by Sari Horowitz, writing for the Washington Post. The article makes several interesting points: Confronting a growing threat to national security, the Justice Department has begun training hundreds of prosecutors to combat and prosecute cyber espionage and related crimes, according to senior department officials. The new training is part of a major overhaul following an...

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