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Call for military to operate botnet

Filed under bold proposals: Col. Charles W. Williamson III. staff judge advocate, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, writes in Armed Forces Journal that what the military really needs is an offensive bot-net. (via /. The world has abandoned a fortress mentality...

Tags: Cyberspace, America, Productivity, Robots, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Security, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-12

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Conferences as conversation starters

Ten years ago Comdex - the gigantic Las Vegas hi tech conference and show - was reaching its high point. In that pre broadband internet era of CD ROM's, beige boxes and Windows 95, tens of thousands would converge on Vegas, stay in massively marked up hotel rooms and walk...

Tags: Web, Industry, Conference, Web 2.0 Movement, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Mozilla's Download Day - One week on

Mozilla's Download Day - One week onImage URL is BrokenWhen you click it tries to go tohttp://www.http.com//blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/images/firefox_3_download_day_one_week_on.pngIf you remove the http://www.http.com// it works.As for the artical, one thing I noticed is that if you are using FF2, it wont show FF3 as being an available update (or it didnt last...

Tags: Web browsers, Image URL, FF3, Download Day, CAD, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Plagiarism detection style software identify authors of terrorist propaganda

Universities around the world have been using plagiarism software for a good few years now, to crack down on the amount of copied work. This, after all, is defrauding a university for the purpose of gaining a qualification, which can and has been classed as a criminal offence at...

Tags: Software, Web, Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Privacy flaw exposes Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan's private MySpace photos

Privacy flaw exposes Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan's private MySpace photosWho cares?A lot of people obviously. The question is why?I think ZDnet is paying too much attention to Celebs.Personally I could care less about the latest celebrity who has their personal information hacked. That only draws attention to the...

Tags: SECURITY, Hilton Hotels Corp., MySpace, Lindsay Lohan, photograph, flaw

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

CyberNet Worlds 3D Chat Community (exe)

CyberNet Worlds 3D Chat Community is the complete version of the 3d browser. When you first enter CyberNet worlds 3d chat you will begin as a Tourist. This mode will let you examine the software as long as you like. You will be able to explore dozens of worlds, chat...

Tags: Environment, CyberNet Worlds 3D, CyberNet Worlds 3D Chat Community, CyberNet World, Virtual Reality, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2008-06-03

Retroshare (exe)

Filesharing and searching/sending Mp3 like in Limewire, Edonkey, or Retroshare is as well as easy as to your friends online: Everything is encrypted, so you have a secure communication & chat environment to your friends in this Instant Messenger like Pidgin or MSN. The world novelty of CyberSpace p2p Messenger...

Tags: Private Key, RS Technologies, Firewalls, Networking

Software downloads 2008-05-22

We've been acquired: CBS buys CNET

We've been acquired: CBS buys CNETRE: We've been acquired: CBS buys CNETMy sincere condolences ;)ThanksThanks for letting me know .. I will now promptly discontinue using any of your sites. I don't read anything the elitist monopolies decide shove down our throats.Bye .. it was nice while it lasted....

Tags: CBS Broadcasting Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

A U.S military botnet in the works

Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can  simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...

Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-13

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

Mozilla spreads malware rather than security

Mozilla spreads malware rather than securityyet another demostration that open source code is NOT safer than closedyet another demostration that open source code is NOT safer than closedSh*t happens....There is no absolute security in computing. And there never will be. Not even when you are running Linux (safe from viruses,...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Web browsers, Murderers, security, Mozilla Corp., malware, virus, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

Google Finance gets update, and people hate it

Google Finance gets update, and people hate itIf you want something better, PAY FOR IT!!!Don't like something that is free, stop using it. There are a few more providers in cyberspace.Or better yet, shut the hell up and pay for the service. Once you pay, then you have the right...

Tags: Google Finance, finance, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?

Microsoft unveiled its "End to End Trust" security vision and now the real work begins: Will anyone buy into it? At RSA, Microsoft rolled out a whitepaper that at the very least is quite the conversation piece. Reading through the whitepaper--something I encourage everyone...

Tags: Software, Audit, Privacy, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Identity, Accountability, Audit Data, Internet, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Globalization's roots in the boom 90s

I've always wanted to read Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat," a book that describes the globalization forces that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century, and in Friedman's mind, constitutes version 3.0 of a globalization wave that will be more intense - and move faster - than...

Tags: Outsource, Telecommunications, Worker, Computer, Fiber, Thomas L. Friedman, Globalization, Outsourcing, Productivity, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-21

How to detect network vulnerabilities?

Computer scientists at George Mason University GMU have developed a new software to identify complex cyber network attacks. This software is named CAULDRON (short for 'Combinatorial Analysis Utilizing Logical Dependencies Residing on Networks'). The developers claim that CAULDRON 'can reduce the impact of cyber attacks by identifying the possible vulnerability...

Tags: Software, Network, Vulnerability, George Mason University, CAULDRON, Networking, Security, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Military ready to defend and conduct cyberwar

The Pentagon is well-aware of the importance of the computer networks -- known as cyberspace to the media and the "Global Information Grid" to the Defense Dept. -- to national security and is actively working to shore up defenses. That was the news from Gen. Kevin P....

Tags: Network, Adversary, Pentagon, Computer, Joint Information Operations Warfare Command, Productivity, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-04

French court says site cannot grade teachers

French court says site cannot grade teachersActually, one could conclude thatit is up to students to hail or rail against the pros and cons of their teachers real issues not rants or raves, not necessarily on the grounds of their teachers educational credentials, but on the manner of their teaching,...

Tags: Performance management, French Court

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

Pakistan+on+the+YouTube+black+hole%3A+Never+mind

Pakistan+on+the+YouTube+black+hole%3A+Never+mindWhen will people live and let live?If these Pakistanis are really sorry, they should cut a check for their mess up, for all those folk's time out there. If they are not that sorry, fine them or put them in isolation for awhile.Soooo...So essentially what you're saying is Pakistan is...

Tags: Government, YouTube Inc., invisible friend, religion, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

32% of internet users use online classifieds

32% of internet users turn to cyberspace for ads for things they may want to buy or sell, they used online classified ad or sites such as CraigsList. The share of internet users saying they had gone to online classified sites has grown by 10% since September 2005, when 22%...

Tags: Craigslist, Advertisement, Internet User, Online Classifieds, Site, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Comcast 'on trial' at FCC hearing Monday

The great debate over Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent and perhaps other P2P apps leaves cyberspace and enters the real world as a full panel of the Federal Communications Commission heads to Harvard for a public hearing on the issue. The FCC recently released the agenda PDF...

Tags: FCC, Professor, CNET Networks Inc., Comcast Corp., Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-22