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- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Australia pushes further Web censorship
- Australia pushes further Web censorshipAnd coming soon...to America, courtesy of the Bush Administration, IF they have their way.RE: Australia pushes further Web censorshipI didn't know that Australia was the new China. Nothing on the internet should be blocked by a government. That's something that Hitler would do.RE: Australia...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- US focusing on Estonia cyberattack in upcoming wargames
- It seems the US government is taking the cyberattacks on Estonia quite seriously. Earlier this week, US-CERT sent experts to Estonia to learn more about the attacks. At the same time, the Defense Department has been getting ready for cyber wargames, Ars Technica reports.The government is setting up...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- ICANN: Anycast saved DNS root servers during attack
- ICANN: Anycast saved DNS root servers during attackWhat is the logic?of attacking the DNS root servers with a DDOS? I can sort of understand attacking say a bank server if they shafted you with overdraft fees, or such. But attacking the heart of the internet? Seems to mee that'd also...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Yahoo: Get a 'hot job' in 2007
- “Its that time of year again when people are out with the old and in with the new, and that includes their jobs,” so says Yahoo, Yahoo-HotJobs online recruiting, that is.Yahoo surveyed 5,331 employed adults in the U.S. last October 2006; Fifty-six percent of the respondents were male and 44...
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- The year in preview: Google goes evil; Mixed source rules; Microsoft buys Yahoo
- Wondering how 2007 will turn out? Look no more. Here are a few fearless predictions to ponder. 1. Google goes evil. OK, well maybe not totally evil. But this is the year the perception of Google changes. In its 2004 IPO prospectus Google said: Don’t be evil. We believe strongly...
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Global Terror Alert's Kohlmann on cyberterrorism
- Evan Kohlmann of Global Terror Alert took questions from Washington Post readers in an online chat today. Here are a few of the exchanges: Q: Why doesn't the CIA bring down some of the websites spewing hostile propaganda if they can't get useful information out of them? Kohlmann:...
- Blog posts 2006-04-19
- Locking down America's Net defenses
- Locking down America's Net defensesLet me decode that"Q: In a nutshell, can you describe the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace? What's it all about?"Spending tax payer dollars (real ones, not cyber dollars) ."What kind of tangible things have actually been achieved over the past three years?"Lots of lunches. Fine fine...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-16
- New spyware claim against Sony BMG
- New spyware claim against Sony BMGWill Sony pay?Is there any real chance that Sony will make ammends for what they've done... or even admit to it for that matter?As our National and State law-makers begin to make attempts to legislate what is and what isn't malware, and what the appropriate...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-22
- Terrorism threat to Net 'overstated'
- Terrorism threat to Net 'overstated'haJust as the threat from physical terrorism is tremendously overstated, so is web terror. Americans are crazy, we have had an allergic reaction of sorts to terrorists. We get scratched and overract terribly and ruin our own lives, we don't even need them to attack...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-28
- What happened to Dewie the e-Turtle?
- What happened to Dewie the e-Turtle?It's not one or the otherCyberterror and Cybercrime are not mutually exclusive. I don't understand why some hype one or the other. Both are real problems that exploit the same weaknesses in lack of adequate cyber security.Cyberterrorism is greatly misunderstood and the talks...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-27
- What happened to Dewie the e-Turtle?
- Security expert Bruce Schneier was interviewed by Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK regarding the notion that foreign governments are a serious threat to a nation's critical national infrastructure and whether cyberterroism is a more potent threat than the rampant cybercrime. Schneier views cyberterrorism threats as overstated. "The US government gives...
- Blog posts 2005-11-25
- Understanding vulnerability: Does hiding information make us more or less safer?
- Two years ago, grad student Sean Gorman was researching the question of what parts of the national infrastructure would be most vulnerable to terrorist attack. His dissertation included "detailed maps of the intersections of and weak spots in the power, telecommunications and transportation networks that support the business and industrial...
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
- Security guru slams misuse of 'cyberterrorism'
- Security guru slams misuse of 'cyberterrorism'Spot on.ntThe woes of the Cyberians !The ultimate aim, imho, is to protect the bank the literal bank as well as the databank from getting broken into and looted. Organizations have to have their own reasonably adequate wherewithals, as economically as possible, to fulfil...
- Discussion threads 2005-04-26
- Straight talk on terrorism
- Straight talk on terrorismCybersecurityIMHO1. Virus protection is not enough on its own.That's like giving s flu jab to a guy that's got the flu.2. So we need at least software firewalling as well.3. This should be a minimum requirement of netiquette. If this were so, 99% of infected machines would...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-18
- New Netsky worm linked to South Korea
- New Netsky worm linked to South KoreaWhats the death toll of this Cyberterrorism?How many cyber people have to lose their cyber lives before this government takes these cyber-terrorist attacks seriously?!Didn't they learn anything from 9/11!Why -o- why don't they throw gob loads of money at us security software makers to...
- Discussion threads 2004-10-22
- Is cyberterrorism a phantom menace?
- Is cyberterrorism a phantom menace?YES!Finally, someone with some common sense being quoted by the media. I agree 100%, we have yet to see a case of cyberterrorism.Spammers launching DOS attacks against sites like Yahoo, etc. is not cyberterrorism. Crackers breaking into sites to steal credit card data is not...
- Discussion threads 2003-11-11
- Fighting cyberterrorism in wartime
- Fighting cyberterrorism in wartimeCNET's Brian Cooley looks at ways companies should protect their businesses from cyberterrorism and hacktivism during the war against Iraq.
- Videos 2003-03-25
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