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Air Force seeks part-time cyberwarriors

Air Force Cyber Command is looking to Silicon Valley for part-time help in its fight against cyberattack, the Christian Science Monitor reports. For example, the 262nd Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron, an Air National Guard unit in Washington State, has tapped into...

Tags: Air Force, Air Force Cyber Command, Air National Guard, Hacking, Quality, Workforce Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Business Operations, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-05

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Will military, NSA take over all cybersecurity operations?

Should responsibility for defending against cyberattacks be moved from the Dept. of Homeland Security to the military? Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton suggested as much at a Congressional hearing where he warned of U.S. vulnerability to cyberwarfar "across the spectrum." Such attacks "potentially threaten not only...

Tags: Network, Cybersecurity, Transportation, Networking, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-20

The WWII German Army was 80% Horse Drawn; Business Lessons from History

The bulk of the German Armyâ€"the dough feet of the normal infantry divisionsâ€"moved on shank's mare. The rifle companies' transport consisted of three-horse wagons, on which the troops loaded their packs, as did this outfit on campaign in Russia in the summer of 1941. Lone Sentry.com ...

Tags: Weapon, Machine, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-06

Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfare

Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfareTaiwanI think an impetus for Red Flag Linux wqas the inability of Beijing to secure Windows against Taiwan, but my memory might be faulty.Cyberwar? You must be kiddind...I thought that word "war" is applicable for some serious events that have catastrophic consequences...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Hacking, Saakashvili

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

USAF ready for cyber offensive

ZDNet UK has an exclusive interview with LTGEN Robert Elder Jr., who said that the Air Force Cyber Command is set to become operatational Oct. 1. Cyber Command will not just fight off "cyber" attacks from foreign countries (read "China") and terrorist groups but will go...

Tags: Ars Technica, R&D, Adversary, Air Force, Research & Development, Government, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-06

Air Force: No! Stop! Blogs bad!

The Air Force has had it with soldiers getting their information from the unsavory world of blogs. The service's Network Operations Center has instituted widespread filtering of the Web, blocking all sites with the letters b-l-o-g in their URLs and filtering out most other sites that qualify as blogs, Wired...

Tags: Wired Inc., Blog, Air Force, Service, Blogging, Security, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Cyber confusion. What is the airforce talking about?

Cyber confusion. What is the airforce talking about?Parts of Speech and Data TypesI understand that recently educated journalists may not know much about the military, but I would have expected that there would be somewhat more understanding of English grammar. In the phrase, "Cyber Command," "Cyber" is used...

Tags: SECURITY, NETWORKING, LTG Bob Elder, Air Force, domain, Cyber, airforce, Cyber confusion, cyber domain, commander

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

Cyber confusion. What is the airforce talking about?

If you are like me your eyes cross and you feel a ringing in your ears when you are exposed to military-speak. The acronyms are fun and server to separate insiders from outsiders, kind of a tribal thing. But is sure makes it hard to figure out what is...

Tags: Computer Network, Network, Goal, Air Force, Cyber Command, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Networking, Productivity, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Ten threat predictions for 2008

Ten threat predictions for 2008Get rid of the botnets> What is needed is a cyber Stratigic Air Command> with counter strike capability.If my poposal is called neo-Darwinism, so be it. Governments should attack the botnet breeding grounds, i.e. insecure machines. The strategy is simple, use ordinary vulnerabilities to install...

Tags: INTERNET, Internet service providers (ISPs), PRODUCTIVITY, Hacking, SECURITY, strategy, threat prediction

Discussion threads 2007-12-26