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- US cyberwarriors a reluctant crew
- The Obama Administration will one day have a whole slate of cybersecurity and cyberwar experts, but that doesn't mean the Defense community will be ready to let loose offensive cyber attacks. According to a report in Sunday's New York Times, planning for such attacks has been in...
- Tags: Computer Network, Cyberattack, Attack, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-02
- Botnet awakes in further South Korean attack
- South Korea is increasingly looking like a nationwide botnet, as MyDoom malware implanted on thousands of PCs woke up, initiating a third wave of DOS cyberattacks on the country's government, business and media servers, The Washington Post reports. Ahnlabs, the country's largest security company, predicted the explosion...
- Tags: Operating System, North Korea, South Korea, Attack, South, Government, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Measuring Global Denial of Service Attacks
- Cyberattacks as a tool for information warfare are not new and have been popular for well over a decade. Their growing prevalence, however, is a disturbing trend that requires study. Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks are one of the most widely crippling elements of many cyberwarfare campaigns. Designed to...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, CCD COE, Distributed Denial Of Service Attack, Security
- White papers 2009-03-31
- Smart Grid vulnerable to cyberattack
- OK, next multibillion dollar opportunity for security consultants coming right up! The Smart Grid, a sort of energy-carrying Internet that will feature automated meters, two-way communication and advanced sensors according to CNN, is ripe for the same kind of cyberattacks that Net users have become so...
- Tags: U.S., Blackout, Grid, Cyberattack, Power Grid, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-22
- 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
- News to know: Internet worm's 20th birthday; Windows 7; Apple patents; Ubuntu
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors Add Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Microsoft roadmap John Carroll: Windows 7 - user interface...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Patent, Internet, Microsoft Windows 7, Internet Worm, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Cyberattacks target UK national infrastructure
- Cyberattacks target UK national infrastructureI hope they will begin using Linux.After decades of experience using Windows and then using Linux for 5 years, there is no comparison on security.Linux has done a tremendous job being resistant to threats with very little attention and no external AV or firewall programs.In home...
- Tags: Linux, Hacking, SECURITY, cyberattack
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- News to know: Open source court victory; Surveillance; SAP; VMware
- Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube Lessig blog: Huge and important news: free licenses upheld NYT: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Open Source, SAP AG, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Defcon, 3G, Notebooks, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Georgia cyberattacks just 'enthusiasts'?
- Gadi Evron, former head of Israel's CERT, says the evidence in the attacks on Georgia's government websites points to "enthusiasts" not the Russian government. "Not all fighting is warfare," he says. While Georgia is obviously under a DDoS attacks and it is political in nature,...
- Tags: Cyberattack, Georgia, Government, Hacking, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Homeland Security secretary pushes cybersecurity 'Manhattan Project'
- At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff discusses a new directive focusing on an early warning system to identify cyberattacks before they start.
- Tags: Security
- Videos 2008-04-09
- 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
- News to know: Windows 7; FCC; Census IT; HDMI; MacBook mystery; Fave Windows programs
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Your turn: Readers choose their 10 favorite Windows programs Gallery right Mary Jo Foley: Why Windows 7 might go to pieces Michael Krigsman: Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau George Ou: HDMI survival guide...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., HDMI, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Rootkits, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- 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
- Parsing the federal budget: The tech highlights
- President Bush unveiled his $3.1 trillion--yes trillion--fiscal 2009 budget and there are a lot of technology highlights to go around. Whether this budget ever gets approved anywhere near its current state remains to be seen (fiscal 2008's budget isn't official), but directionally there are some key highlights....
- Tags: Budget, National Science Foundation, NASA, Department Of Veteran Affair, VA, Nanotechnology, Hacking, Semiconductors, Security, Viruses And Worms, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Cyber Defcon 4
- Cyber Defcon 4Defcon 5I would be interested in a follow-up article, including your thoughts on cyberattacks on international power grids, and probably other infrastructure. Given the recent CIA announcement, I believe you might consider a current status of Defcon 5.
- Tags: Hacking, Cyber Defcon 4, DefCon 5
- Discussion threads 2008-01-26
- Hackers attacking US utilities overseas
- Cyber warfare isn't just concerned with military and intel computers. Hackers have also attacked foreign facilities of US power utilities, according to a CIA analyst. The Washington Post reports that Tom Donahue, the CIA's top cybersecurity analyst, told an audience of utility security pros: "We do not know who...
- Tags: CIA, Utility, Technology, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
- Dept of Energy labs hacked by phishers
- This is pretty scary: Two major military and nuclear weapons labs have been breached by hackers: the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Lab, PCWorld says. Oak Ridge suffered a "sophisticated cyber attack," a spokesperson said, in which hackers accessed the SSNs and DOBs of...
- Tags: Attack, Phishing, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- News to know: Mozilla patches Firefox; Vista hot fixes; Microsoft Works as a service
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Google hires browser hacking guru.Mozilla fixes its end of URL protocol handling saga. Ed Burnette: 10 days from report to patch for new Firefox exploit.David Berlind: Technology Shakedown: McAfee's A/V software runs amok on Windows Vista's tray.Mary Jo Foley: Leaked Vista hot fix list provides SP1 clues....
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
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