Data Mining and Video Games: Drawing in a New Generation of Players to Soldiers and Fight

In terms of understanding and engaging customers, the video game industry has gone through a massive transformation in recent years. Before this transformation, video games were physical products that could be purchased over the counter, with little to no understanding of player retention or behavioral analysis for the people who sold them. That all… Read More Data Mining and Video Games: Drawing in a New Generation of Players to Soldiers and Fight

September 21, 2018September 21, 2018 Chief EditorLeave a comment

News Monitors Inc. explains 2017’s Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing “dozens of terabytes” of social media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest. The archives were found by UpGuard’s veteran security-breach hunterChris Vickery during a routine scan of… Read More News Monitors Inc. explains 2017’s Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

September 21, 2018 Chief EditorLeave a comment

News Monitors @work: What is a Cryptologic Linguist Analyst?

OVERVIEW A cryptologic linguist is primarily responsible for identifying foreign communications using signals equipment. Their role is crucial as the nation’s defense depends largely on information that comes from foreign languages. JOB DUTIES Identifying and analyzing foreign communications Recognize changes in transmission modes and tip the appropriate authority Provide translation expertise to analysts Provide transcriptions… Read More News Monitors @work: What is a Cryptologic Linguist Analyst?

August 20, 2018January 3, 2023 Chief EditorLeave a comment

Cyber Threat Intelligence: Applying Machine Learning, Data Mining and Text Feature Extraction to the Darknet

News Monitors – Abstract The Darknet has become a hub for hacking communities, offering cyber criminals the ability to freely discuss and sell unknown and emerging exploits. This paper focuses its attention on studying the effectiveness of machine learning for providing cyber threat intelligence from Darknet hacking forums. Developing a functioning system for extracting information from… Read More Cyber Threat Intelligence: Applying Machine Learning, Data Mining and Text Feature Extraction to the Darknet

April 11, 2018April 11, 2018 Chief EditorLeave a comment

Iran: Who Guards the Guardians

The widespread unrest in Iran has been underway for a week now. Protests have been reported (often with cell phone video) in nearly a hundred cities and large towns throughout the country. The demonstrations and the government response so far has paralyzed the economy. Officials have already leaked details of meetings of the senior leaders several… Read More Iran: Who Guards the Guardians

January 4, 2018 Current Issues EditorLeave a comment

Europe’s Growing Muslim Population

In recent years, Europe has experienced a record influx of asylum seekers fleeing conflicts in Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries. This wave of Muslim migrants has prompted debate about immigration and security policies in numerous countries and has raised questions about the current and future number of Muslims in Europe. To see how the size of… Read More Europe’s Growing Muslim Population

December 2, 2017 Current Issues EditorLeave a comment

A next war in Syria?

Who controls Syria once ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) and different dissidents are crushed? It is essentially a standoff between Iran (which has been at war with Israel since the 1980s) and Israel (which does not need Iranian military powers on its Syrian outskirt under any conditions). Iran is additionally at war… Read More A next war in Syria?

November 8, 2017 Current Issues EditorLeave a comment

Iran the bad influence

Iran is influencing its turn to build up a safe course from Iran to the Mediterranean and come one to step nearer to its objective of annihilating Israel. This regardless of Israel influencing it to clear that they would utilize whatever assets they had, including atomic weapons, to protect themselves. Iran appears to look at… Read More Iran the bad influence

November 1, 2017 Current Issues EditorLeave a comment

Russia hacks the internet

In September 2017 the U.S. Armed force requested that Congress enable it to reconsider its financial plan to manage some genuine system vulnerabilities. Particularly the armed force expected to stop take a shot at its front line Internet, known as WIN-T (Warfighter Information Network-Tactical) with the goal that a few changes can be made to… Read More Russia hacks the internet

October 17, 2017 Current Issues EditorLeave a comment

Syria is about to burst

The revolutionaries are going into disrepair. Russia, Iran, Turkey and the Assads have utilized their “de-acceleration” zones into slaughterhouses by continuing assaults on star revolt regular folks and any radicals they can get. ISIL is quickly losing it work force and region in light of consistent assaults by pretty much everybody (Turks, Kurds, Assad and… Read More Syria is about to burst

October 13, 2017 Current Issues EditorLeave a comment