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- White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks
- White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacksExperience would suggest......that making something inconvenient is enough to make the vast majority not want to try, unless it's very important to them this strategy seem to work particularly well for a certain large software vendor as well. Of course, if there's...
- Tags: Entrepreneurship, Hacking, SECURITY, cyberattack, White House, Wiki
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks
- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod A. Beckstrom has been tapped to join the Bush Administration to help secure federal networks against attack, the Post reported today. Beckstrom most recently founded Twiki.net, an enterprise Wiki support company, and previously created CATS Software and Mergent Systems. He's also coauthor of a...
- Tags: White House, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cyberattack, Post Story, Hacking, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- NSA coordinates cyberattack response
- NSA coordinates cyberattack responseThe NSA bungled the intel on Iraq...and historically have been a lot less than accurate. What makes anyone think they will do a better job trying to police the entire internet?Set aside their incompetence, and you still have a worldwide spying organization with no regard for...
- Tags: Hacking, Vertical industries, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Washington Post Co., NSA, cyberattack response, cyberattack, monitoring, government, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- NSA coordinates cyberattack response
- The Washington Post reports: President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies' computer systems. The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the...
- Tags: Agency, Monitoring, Needle, Cyberattack, Computer, NSA, Government, Internet, Hacking, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- CIA: cyberattack caused multiple-city blackout
- CIA: Cyberattack caused multiple-city blackoutlet me be the first to say......ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!And many don't think it is a real problem!It is like 9/11. Until it happens in the U.S. the reality will continue to be ignored, or dismissed as unlikely.SHENANIGANS!What great timing for "hackers"...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Socialism, CIA, blackout, multiple-city blackout, cyberattack
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- China connection eyed in Oak Ridge cyber attack
- China connection eyed in Oak Ridge cyber attackUnbelievable!How could this happen?such a cat and mouse game, likethe one your advertising hackers play, mutating tags to force such mindless slogans as 'the go-to place' over and over and over upon us, hoping to beat our filtering of such glop, and leave...
- Tags: Linux, Cyberthreats, Hacking, e-mail, Oak Ridge, phishing, cyberattack
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- China connection eyed in Oak Ridge cyber attack
- Last week's phishing attack at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee reportedly has a China connection. Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratory were hit with a cyber attack where hackers accessed Social Security numbers and birth dates of visitors to the lab between 1990 and 2004. A...
- Tags: China, Lab, New York Times Co., Cyberattack, Phishing, Government, Security, Hacking, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Chinese threat is a threat
- I have to quote Lewis Page of the Register on this: A US government panel specially created to warn of danger from China has warned of danger from China. The panel, The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission USCC, just published a 56 page document that they reported to...
- Tags: China, Threat, Cyberattack, Hacking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- The French chime in with "Me too!"
- Add France to the countries that have acknowledged that they are under attack from China. They are not willing to commit to having any knowledge of the attacks being sponsored by the People's Liberation Army. And for the record here is China's response to...
- Tags: China, Government, Cyberattack, Attack, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Cyber Attacks On The Rise: IBM 2007 Midyear Report
- So far 2007 has been a very interesting and unexpected year on many security fronts. The IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force research and development team discovered, analyzed and recorded new vulnerabilities and the status of varying threats throughout the first six months of this year. That data is compiled in...
- Tags: Cyberattack, IBM Corp., Hacking, Team Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Management
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Facebook users open to cyberattacks, ID theft?
- Facebook users open to cyberattacks, ID theft?Be wary of Sponsored Links.One of the example is about getting a free copy of Windows Vista. It's too good to be true, so stay away from that.Sorry, I just hate to mention this.FoolsWhat ever fools use face book and have there personal ID...
- Tags: Hacking, cyberattack, Facebook, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2007-07-30
- In wake of Estonia, UK worries about cyberattacks
- As more of Britain's essential governmental infrastructure resides on the Internet, there is a growing concern that it will come under cyber-attack by computer hackers, reports the BBC.Foreign intelligence agencies are already penetrating government sites. The largest and most disruptive thus far being the cyberattack on Estonia -- when banks,...
- Tags: Security, Homeland security
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- 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
- US-CERT heads to Estonia to help, learn about cyberattack
- US-CERT Computer Emergency Response Team is headed to Estonia to do a little forensics on the well-reported cyberattack that took out much of the small country's infrastructure, InfoWorld reports.Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary for cyber security and telecommunications with DHS, said: "We are sending someone from our organization ... to help...
- Tags: International, Homeland security
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Estonia reeling from massive cyberattack from Russia
- Estonia reeling from massive cyberattack from RussiaJust goes to showThat any country with sufficient resources can disable another. Nothing new in that. That the Russians did it first doesn't make the rest of the world any holier. More particularly, with DNS root-servers all in *one* country, the entire world is...
- Tags: Hacking, Estonia, cyberattack
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- 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
- cyberattacks at federal agencies draw House scrutiny
- Cyberattacks at federal agencies draw House scrutinyMessage has been deleted.Hey! You think I'm stupid?Watch your mouth!!!!!!Where do you come from??Thank you for the insult.Dell techs walk out with hard drivesThe ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has been compromised byDell Techs walking out with so-called defective harddrives loaded with Federal Data. And those...
- Tags: Strategy, agency, Microsoft Corp., Dell Techs, H-1B visa, security, hard drive, Dell Computer Corp., cyberattack
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- U of NH unveils a cyber threat calculator
- The University of New Hampshire unveiled a "Cyber Threat Calculator," developed by researchers at UNH Justiceworks and UNH students. The Calculator assesses the level of threat attackers pose to specific sectors that rely on information technology, Fosters Online reports. "Nation states potentially pose the greatest threat with regard to...
- Tags: Government technology, cyberattack
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- Targeted Cyber Attacks: The Dangers Faced by Your Corporate Network
- Cyber attack is the name given by usually sensationalist articles and documents describing crimes that occur in a virtual world as opposed to tangible attacks such as war. A targeted cyber attack is when the attacker specifically targets someone or a company. A successful attack will typically allow the attacker...
- Tags: Network, GFI Software Ltd., Cyberattack, Attack, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms
- White papers 2007-01-17
- News to know: Cyber attacks; Blackberry cracks; precarious PINs
- Notable headlines from here and elsewhere...CNET editor James Kim and his family are missing. Please contact San Francisco police immediately if you have any information.U.S. government warns of an al-Qaida call for a cyber attack against online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning today.Vista is ready for business, but...
- Tags: General, Security
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
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