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NASA hacker pleads to Bush for pardon

NASA hacker pleads to Bush for pardonI have very little sympathyFor a guy who commited a crime and then fights extradition because he knows he will be treated better in Britian. He knew he was commiting a crime against the US in a time of war but he did...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Bush, NASA, hacker

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

A cyberterrorist is busted but the problem remains

Rita Katz and Michael Stern of the SITE Institute write in the Washington Post about the arrest of Irhabi (Arabic for "terrorist") 007. Irhabi "hacked into American university computers, propagandized for the Iraq insurgents led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and taught other online jihadists how to wield their computers...

Tags: Irhabi

Blog posts 2006-03-27

CIA plays cyberwar games

CIA plays cyberwar gamesIf 50 cyber terrorists attackedIf 50 cyber terrorists attacked, would anyone notice among the 100,000s of kids that attack each day? Whats 50 more?You should continue the practice of keeping critical traffic off the net, if it doesn't have an IP address, its not in the attackable...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, computer, attack, CIA, cyberterrorist, game

Discussion threads 2005-05-27

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Cyber terrorists to face death penalty in Pakistan

According to a recently signed "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" in Pakistan, any person who commits cyberterrorism causing the death of other people will face death penalty or life imprisonment : "Whoever commits the offence of cyber terrorism and causes death of any person shall be punishable with...

Tags: Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-10

ICANN: Anycast saved DNS root servers during attack

ICANN: Anycast saved DNS root servers during attackWhat is the logic?of attacking the DNS root servers with a DDOS? I can sort of understand attacking say a bank server if they shafted you with overdraft fees, or such. But attacking the heart of the internet? Seems to mee that'd also...

Tags: Domain names, Government, SECURITY, NETWORKING, attack, DNS Root Servers, Internet, DNS, ICANN

Discussion threads 2007-03-09

Cyberattack knocks millions of blogs offline

Cyberattack knocks millions of blogs offlineWhat if my business relied on the web?This report taken with the push to web2.0 makes me very nervous about the direction we are taking. If my business kept its data exclusively on the web and if my people used web based tools to do...

Tags: Channel management, SECURITY, Word processors, Web, mercy, cyberattack, blog

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

Security guru slams misuse of 'cyberterrorism'

Security guru slams misuse of 'cyberterrorism'Spot on.ntThe woes of the Cyberians !The ultimate aim, imho, is to protect the bank the literal bank as well as the databank from getting broken into and looted. Organizations have to have their own reasonably adequate wherewithals, as economically as possible, to fulfil...

Tags: security, cyberterrorism, e-mail

Discussion threads 2005-04-26