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How to Use a Military Concept to Manage SEO in a Data-Scarcity Reality
May 20th
The OODA loop concept – Observe, Orient, Decide, Act – is one way to face uncertainty and make educated decisions based on partial or no data. Here are the basic steps in the framework and how to apply it to advance your SEO and content campaigns.
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How to Use a Military Concept to Manage SEO in a Data-Scarcity Reality – Search Engine Watch
May 20th
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How to Use a Military Concept to Manage SEO in a Data-Scarcity Reality
Search Engine Watch War is the realm of uncertainty. Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military thinker, widely acknowledged as the most important of the classical strategic thinkers, wrote this saying in his seminal book "On War". He explains this statement with the … Six uncomplicated social SEO tips for small businesses Choose From Three Brilliant Blue SEO Packages For Stress-free, High-profit … SEO and Internet Security: How They Go Hand in Hand |
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SEO Considers Halfaya Massacre Committed by Assad Military Forces as a War … – San Francisco Chronicle
Dec 24th
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SEO Considers Halfaya Massacre Committed by Assad Military Forces as a War …
San Francisco Chronicle SEO is dismayed by the appalling massacre committed against our people in Halfaya –Hama who paid their lives as a price for a loaf of bread. According to the washington post, Syrian regime airstrikes on a rebel-held town of Halfaya, in the central … |
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Israeli Military Tells Citizens To Stop Broadcasting Rocket Attacks Via Social Media
Nov 17th
The Israel Defense Forces might be extremely social media-savvy - arguably disturbingly so – but it is asking citizens to stop posting about Hamas rocket attacks on sites like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
In a press briefing late last week, Israel warned that any social updates embedded with location information or geotagging could aid Hamas’s efforts. Instagram photos of successful strikes and even geotagged tweets and Facebook updates by Israeli citizens could help Hamas home in on Israeli targets. Since the militant group employs relatively crude rocket technology by most standards, aggregated public geo-data could offer a precision otherwise afforded only by more sophisticated equipment – or inadvertently crowdsourced.
Israeli citizens have been documenting the escalating conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants on the popular social sites, often with attached images. The IDF called for the social media blackout just a day before longer-range rocket strikes reached Jerusalem for the first time.
The Dangers Of Citizen Journalism
Following the Arab Spring uprisings, social sites have increasingly provided a platform for citizen journalism, instantly transmitting unfiltered images of violence to the world at large. Israel’s call for a social media hush shares little in common with 2011′s popular revolts in the Middle East, but there’s certainly an uneasy balance between protecting sensitive military information and flat-out censorship. In Egypt and Libya, the ruling authority’s desperate attempts to muffle the tweets and status updates only made the global community more engaged in those unfolding revolutions.
Both Israel and Hamas have leveraged sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to promote their respective political agendas in recent weeks. The sophistication and breadth of these militarized social campaigns has extended the conflict beyond rocket strikes and border zone scuffles into, bizarrely enough, a branding war. This is truly war 2.0 – and we’re watching it unfold in real time.
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To Present At SEO Event – Military & Aerospace Electronics
Oct 4th
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To Present At SEO Event
Military & Aerospace Electronics Home To Present At SEO Event. Buyer's Guide Popular Category Searches. Backplanes · Board products · Communications equipment · Computers · Connectors · Data buses and networking · Data storage · Displays · Electro-optics · Enclosures and chassis … |
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Free SEO Training In Santa Monica For Military Veterans – Santa Monica Mirror
Jul 29th
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Free SEO Training In Santa Monica For Military Veterans
Santa Monica Mirror Veterans looking for new skills to acquire to help land a new job or increase current work performance in the high-tech working world are being given the opportunity for free Search Engine Optimization training in Santa Monica at SEO Seminar Los Angeles. Optimizing Your Website: Ten Powerful SEO Tools Where's My Salon When I Search in Google? Understanding S.E.O. How Website Structure & Information Architecture Should Mirror Your Business … |
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Google Street View Shows ‘Secret Base’ In Israel, But Military Says It’s Not Secret At All
May 4th
Some in Israel are calling foul after images of what’s described as a “secret base” in the Tel Aviv area have appeared on Google’s Street View service. But the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) — the country’s defense department — says everything is fine….
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Facebook Joins Google, LinkedIn With Social Media Guide For Military Families
Dec 19th
Just days ago, Barack Obama officially announced the end of the Iraq War. Today Facebook launched its social media guide for military families, which outlines how family members can connect with loved ones who are stationed far away. To find it on Facebook, go here. This guide provides tips for staying in touching via Facebook, detailed information about uploading photos, status updates, sending messages, groups and pages and using chat and video chat.
Military personnel and their families must be extra careful of the types of information they share. The social media guide outlines ways to maintain operational security (OpSec), which is essential for all service members and their families.
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Not all information is sharable, especially when it comes to troops’ unit locations and activities. Using social media calls for a heightened awareness on the part of both military personnel and their families, especially in regards to the following:
- Unit activities, either deployed or at home
- Facebook posts about a service member’s activities, including troop movements, homecomings and deployment date – this information should not be shared
Here are a few more common misperceptions and the reality behind what’s acceptable on social media sites:
The guide also outlines ways to maintain personal security (PerSec), including creating friend lists, accepting requests only from people you know, enabling secure browsing, learning how to use privacy settings and understanding privacy online.
What about vets that are already back home? They’re facing an unemployment rate of more than 11%. Just before Veteran’s Day, Google created a job search engine for vets. LinkedIn launched a veterans microsite, and began tagging job postings that seemed like good fits for vets.
How do you feel about using Facebook to stay in touch with friends or family in the military? Give us your take in the comments.
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90,000 Military Emails Leaked After Anonymous Attack
Jul 11th
On Monday morning “hacktivist” group Anonymous promised that it would be releasing results of an attack it made on representatives of the intelligence community, groups like the CIA in the United States and MI6 in the United Kingdom, as well as the companies that support them.
The first wave of results, which Anonymous is calling #MilitaryMeltdownMonday, have just been released. Anonymous targeted consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, a company that often works the with U.S. Department of Defense and National Security Administration, and gained access to 90,000 military emails, four gigabytes of source code (which was erased from the Booz Allen Hamilton servers) along with login credentials and other sources of information that Anonymous can hack along the intelligence community’s digital infrastructure. What did Anonymous find in Boox Allen Hamilton’s servers and how damaging could be it be to American homeland security?
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Keeping with the previous themes of ships (Lulz Security called itself the Lulz Boat), Anonymous calls Booz Allen Hamilton a wooden barge with no security at all. Here is how Anonymous described the attack on the company:
“We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place,” Anonymous wrote. “We were able to run our own application, which turned out to be a shell and began plundering some booty. Most shiny is probably a list of roughly 90,000 military emails and password hashes (md5, non-salted of course!). We also added the complete sqldump, compressed ~50mb, for a good measure.”
So, according to Anonymous, Booz Allen Hamilton had a least one server in its infrastructure that was insecure and contained sensitive information about the company’s dealing with the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency. Anonymous is posting the results of its attack on sites like The Pirate Bay and MirrorCreator.
In terms of what Anonymous found in the Booz Allen Hamilton servers, there are certainly items that will get people fired. One of the bigger items is Boox Allen Hamilton’s association with security company HBGary. Booz Allen Hamilton and HBGary Federal proposed software for a sophisticated program (dubbed Metal Gear by Anonymous) that would allow security teams to control “sock puppet” online identities in social media spheres which would attempt to steer conversation about certain topics.
“And thanks to the gross incompetence at Booz Allen Hamilton probably all military [p]ersonnel of the U.S. will now have to change their passwords,” Anonymous wrote.
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U.S. Military Can Restore a Country’s Internet – Whether It Likes It or Not
Feb 8th
Although attacks by governments against their own people using the Internet get more press, warfare between countries has been spreading online for some time. Most of the instances that have come to light have been viruses designed to stop, or slow down, activities in another country that the attacking country feels threatened by, or spying operations.
The United States, like most governments, has developed teams and tools to wage Web warfare. But not all the tools are what we would normally think of as offensive weapons. The U.S. military, it turns out, can force a country that has disconnected itself from the Internet back online.
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Prior to the Stuxnet virus, launched against Iran’s nuclear industry (possibly by the U.S. and Israel), there were already other cyber-attacks. The United States’ own power grid was attacked via its SCADA systems. The Chinese had an extensive online spying operation against the U.S. called GhostNet and have attacked on Google .
But what happens when a country shuts off the Internet. Recently, Egypt did so. Their motivations were internal. By shutting off the Internet in Egypt, its bosses hoped to interfere with the organization of domestic protests, keep debilitating information from getting out to a global audience and make it more difficult for panicking Egyptians to transfer their money out of the country.
But a country might do the same thing in order to keep an enemy from sending viruses, spying or committing other acts of web warfare. If that happened, most would think, game over for the Internet warriors. But not so, it seems.
According to an article on Wired, there are a host of methods by which the U.S. could restore the Internet to a country that has shut it off.
- Commando Solo: A USAF “airborne broadcasting center,” the plane carries the equipment that makes it possible to broadcast on AM and FM radio and on UHF and VHF television signals. It also carries equipment that will restore Wi-Fi for the area below it. How is classified.
- FastCom: drone-based “cell towers”
- Satellites: some U.S. military satellites can provide internet access to the ground
- Dish & sat phones: sneaking in, or dropping in, small satellite dishes and satellite phones would be expensive, but possible
Psychological warfare would be a lot easier to accomplish using these tools than outright attacks.
Although we did ask contacts in the U.S. military for input on this story, they were not able to comment.
Computer photo by Mark Smith | trench warfare photo from Wikimedia Commons
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