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Cyber-Storm II is blowing through DC

Cyber-Storm II is blowing through DCLast Year Revealed Major Weaknesses in the Exercise ParametersWhile it made a good place to start, the "play nice" instructions automatically limited the effectiveness of the exercise.In a true full-blown attack, the opponents will NOT play nice or restrict themselves to a single attack. ...

Tags: Cyber-Storm II, attack

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Cyber-Storm II is blowing through DC

It’s time, once again, for Cyber Storm, the "the largest-ever exercise designed to evaluate the mettle of information technology experts and incident response teams" from 18 federal agencies and nine states, The Washington Post. Jerry Dixon, a former director of the...

Tags: Player, Australia, Attorney General, Cyber-Storm II, Government, Strategy, Security, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Additional Resources

MS Security Essentials test shows 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples

I have to defend Microsoft on this...I have to defend Microsoft on this because Symantec is probably the [i]last[/i] company to be complaining.I can't tell you how many computers I've "fixed" simply by removing any and all Symantec/Norton products from a computer, then installing Avast or AVG.Symantec makes some of...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., heuristics, security, detection rate, malware

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

News to know: Android notebooks; Twitter bugs; Samsung, Nokia

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks Ryan Naraine: Coming in July: Month of Twitter Bugs ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Notebook, Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Smart Phones, TVs, Cellular Phones, Tv & Home Theater, Handhelds, Channel Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide

Update, 12/4/08: It's been brought to my attention by a diligent reader that several of the products listed in this guide were from 2007, and not this year. I compiled this guide as an aggregation of several listings online; clearly, some of the listings were old...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter

Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...

Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Call for military to operate botnet

Call for military to operate botnetI'd volunteer my PCs to help.If they did this above-board, with a SETI screen saver style app we could install deliberately, I'd bet they could have 50 million machines ready to help with this in a matter of weeks.RE: Call for military to operate botnetI'd...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet Service Provider, attack, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XP

Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XPVista is what squeezed me outof the MS flock. I was an avid supporter and advocate for MS right up to XP. I reluctantly went to XP Pro. Then along came WGA and false positives and Redmond telling me I needed to replace an...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Vista fiasco, ULCPC, fiasco, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders

The FBI today announced the arrest of eight U.S. men accused to hijacking PCs for use in a million-strong botnet that accounted for $20 million in economic loss. In its "Bot Roast II" crackdown, the FBI said it also served 13 search warrants in the U.S. and...

Tags: U.S. District Court, FBI, Bot, Distributed Denial Of Service, Computer, Florida, AKILL, Michael Downey, Federal Government, Phishing, Security, Government, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-29

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...

Tags: International, Defense

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Estonia reeling from massive cyberattack from Russia

It's no surprise that US and UK computers are the target of numerous cyberattacks. But Estonia? Who would have figured? Yet, The Washington Post reports, the heavily wired Baltic country "has been subject in recent weeks to massive and coordinated cyber attacks on Web sites of the government, banks, telecommunications...

Tags: Security, Intelligence

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Hactivism or information warfare?

Just as the term "cyber terrorism" gets linguists all riled up, "information warfare" is sure to elicit the wrath of security pundits and bloggers alike. While I will be the first to acknowledge that cyber terrorism is a problematic term (no loss of life or limb from shutting down an...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, information warfare, Estonia

Blog posts 2007-05-12

Canon PowerShot A560

Canon's PowerShot A560 is a suitable big brother to the company's lower-end A550. Both models sport the same chunky-but-comfortable design, 7-megapixel sensor, and 4X optical zoom lens. The A560 distinguishes itself from the A550 and justifies its slightly higher price with a larger LCD screen, a higher maximum ISO, and...

Tags: Process improvement, A560, Canon Inc., camera, Canon PowerShot, ISO, A550, Canon PowerShot A560

Product reviews 2007-03-14

Sensitive school data winds up in hands of Nigerian ID thieves

Sensitive school data winds up in hands of Nigerian ID thieveswhose fault is it ?First of all,I wonder whose fault is it..? The careless people who left the information on the hard drive or the supposed 'thief' of data..? Are you trying to say this does not happen in other...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Nigerian ID, school data

Discussion threads 2007-01-12

Microsoft lifts the curtain on Vista Ultimate Extras

Microsoft lifts the curtain on Vista Ultimate ExtrasI have Vista UltimateI didn't even know there were any other extras coming!This is good news, i only really want the Texas Holdem anyway :DGood to know about these....Texas Hold 'Em poker game-I'm not much of a gamer, be it online or offMulti-user...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, cake, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-01-08

Strong Angel III: Disaster response innovation

Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy, is leading an effort innovate disaster response in the wake of catastrophies. He is the Director of Strong Angel III, which this month is field testing ways of delivering life-saving humanitarian relief and rapidly deployable communication systems in response...

Tags: Strong Angel III

Blog posts 2006-08-14

Security officials to spy on chat rooms

Security officials to spy on chat roomsAs though real terrorists would use chat roomsJust another excuse to kill the 4th amendment. "Terrorism" will destroy freedom worldwide, and if it is not exposed for what it really is, those freedoms will be gone forever. Of course the Nazi Bush administration would...

Tags: E-mail, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), security, chat room

Discussion threads 2004-11-24

985_kit.exe 1997-12-17 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../FastIR/Readme.txt .../Infs/Readme.txt .../PwrPnl/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:Trident Cyber 9397 Linear Accelerated for PCI (v6.20.7148h) SMC IrCC Fast Infrared Hardware and Driver PHASIR ACT-IR200L Infrared Wireless Interface ACT-IR220L Infrared Wireless Interface JetEye PC Infrared PC Interface (ESI-9680) TI...

Tags: IDE, Controller, ISA, Microsoft Windows, CPU, EISA, MCA, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 1997-12-17