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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has released the first-ever ethical guidelines for civilian hackers, or hacktivists, engaged in armed conflicts.  The organization asks hacktivists to comply with eight “humanitarian law-based rules” to protect themselves and avoid harming others.

The ICRC said that international humanitarian law does not prohibit hacking military targets during armed conflicts, but those involved in such operations must adhere to basic humanitarian principles.

By J.P. Atwell, Former Sr. CIA Operations Officer
Originally published in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald on 04 June 2023.
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Many people’s understanding of the CIA comes from entertainment (Hollywood) and “Infotainment” (social media, high-bias “news” television channels). For others, an occasional documentary (of varying credibility) or a solid news report (typically highlighting the odd operational failure) rounds out their knowledge of an organization that is by

A hacker has created his own version of ChatGPT, but with a malicious bent: Meet WormGPT, a chatbot designed to assist cybercriminals.  WormGPT’s developer is selling access to the program in a popular hacking forum, according to email security provider SlashNext, which tried the chatbot.  “We see that malicious actors are now creating their own custom modules similar to ChatGPT, but easier to use for nefarious purposes,” the company said in a blog post.  

WormGPT (Credit: Hacking forum)

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Globalism is an ideology based on the belief that people, information, and goods should be able to cross national borders unrestricted, while globalization is the spread of technology, products, information, and jobs across nations.  Within one week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, governments around the world passed some of the toughest and most coordinated sanctions in modern history. At lightning speed, dealings with the Russian Central Bank and Russian travel to and through 33 countries’