Botnets As "eWMDs" (Wednesday 10th of December 2008 09:45:01 AM)
John Kelly writes "The current issue of Policy Review has a paper by an stars and bars
comptroller rocket manager and the recent irrevocable Undersecretary of Defense for Estonia.
Drawing on the Estonian cyber attacks a year and a half ago, as well as ...
(more)Ask Lt. Col. John Bircher About Cyber Warfare Concepts (Friday 13th of June 2008 03:10:22 AM)
The Air Force is not the only U.S. soldierly branch trying to come to grips with the personal
computer network banking side of warfare, both current and future. The U.S. Army adding machine
Network domination study (CNO)-Electronic Warfare (EW) defender ...
(more)China's Cyber-Militia (Sunday 01st of June 2008 06:00:04 PM)
D. J. Keenan notes that the cover story of the current issue of national Journal reports in
depth on China's cyber-aggression against US targets in the government, military, and business.
We have discussed China's actions on infinite occasions over the ...
(more)Inside the Secret War Against Internet Spies (Friday 11th of April 2008 07:10:41 AM)
Ahess247 brings us a lengthy BusinessWeek story on the increasing amount of attacks against the
US government's online subsistence as well as its contacts in the private sector. Hackers are
gaining a greater awareness of where valuable data might reside, ...
(more)Cyber Storm II Set To Begin (Sunday 09th of March 2008 05:00:04 AM)
Mr sanjeev notes that Computerworld is running a story about Cyber Storm II, set to run from
March 11th until the 14th. The exercise will test the security of the US, Australia, the UK,
New Zealand, and Canada. The organizers' goals are to test preparedness ...
(more)We Know Who's Behind Storm Worm (Wednesday 30th of January 2008 10:00:07 AM)
Jmason reminds us of a story from a few weeks back that got little attention, adding "This
doesn't seem to be just bluster; as far as I can tell, synonyms: anybody who knows the RBN now
agrees that this seems likely." Brian Krebs's ...
(more)PEBKAC Still Plagues PC Security (Thursday 04th of October 2007 05:30:03 AM)
Billosaur writes "ARS Technica is reporting on a study release by McAfee and the National Cyber
Security Alliance (as part of the beginning of National Cyber Security Awareness Month) that
suggests when it comes to PC security, the problem between the ...
(more)NSA Tasked With 'Policing' Government Networks (Saturday 22nd of September 2007 10:00:02 PM)
Novus Ordo Seclorum writes "The NSA has a new assignment. No longer merely responsible for
signals intelligence, the NSA now has the task of defending against cyber attacks on politics
and private networks. 'The plan calls for the NSA to work with the ...
(more)Cybercrime Now Worth $105 Billion, Bypasses Drug Trade (Wednesday 19th of September 2007 07:30:04 PM)
Stony Stevenson writes "Citing recent highly publicized corporate data breaches that have beset
major companies like Ameritrade, Citigroup, and Bank of America, McAfee CEO David DeWalt, said
that cyber-crime has become a US$105 billion business that now ...
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