Taliban Hacked, DoD Starts Cyber Offensive?

The webmaster of a Taliban-endorsed website has claimed that the website was hacked. Abu al-Aina’a al-Khorasani, an administrator for a jihadi forum endorsed by the Taliban wrote in a  post that “group’s main site and the site of its online journal Al-Sumud, have been the subject of an ‘infiltration operation,’” according to Wired.com.

The post goes on to warn online jihadists “to not enter any of the links that concern…

Taliban Finds New Ally in an Unlikely Place, the Porn Industry

Despite a seeming contradiction, Taliban insurgents are able to get aid from an unlikely source, the porn industry. Late last year, news reports suggested that insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan are able to intercept live video feeds from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using commercially available technology. It turns out, the commercial technology used by insurgents, SkyGrabber, is…