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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

Threat Hierarchy

I used to do a lot of breakfast seminars. Well, I still do a lot of breakfast seminars. But I used to have a slide that depicted the threat hierarchy. It was a list from low threat to high threat. I did not create it. I am sure...

Tags: Information Warfare, Hacktivism, Experimentation

Blog posts 2005-10-10

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Modern Warfare 2 - A game too far?

Show me a war where civilians didn't die.. And I'll show you some major propaganda footage.. So no.. not over the proverbial "edge" any more than any of the other scenes of carnage we see in computer games now.RE: Modern Warfare 2 - A game too far?I don't see anything...

Tags: Games, game

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Chinese hackers launch targeted attacks against foreign correspondents

According to an assessment published by the Information Warfare Monitor, Chinese hacktivists politically motivated hackers have recently launched a targeted malware attack against foreign news correspondents attempting to trick them into executing a malware-embedded PDF attachment (Interview list.pdf), coming from a non-existent editor working for The Straits Times. ...

Tags: China, Malware, Hacker, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Does Oracle matter to open source

only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...

Tags: open source, proprietary software, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government

Following a threat posted on YouTube a month ago, the the well known malicious pattern of the "Anonymous group" failed to materialize earlier today when the group attempted to launch a distributed denial of service DDoS attack against the web sites of Australia's Prime Minister and the Australian Communications and...

Tags: Government, Crowdsourcing, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-09

When Collaboration is Literally Life or Death...

For those who think collaboration technology simply breaks down rigid command and control management hierarchies, consider the origins of the term: the military. The US military have had a significant online presence with various online forums for rank and file, commanders and other...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Network, Leader, Forum, CC, Case History, Software As A Service (SaaS), Collaboration, Groupware, Managed Hosting, Social Networking, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-03

US cyberwarriors a reluctant crew

US cyberwarriors a reluctant crewRelated problemThere's a related problem ... once they start using [b][i]any[/i][/b] offensive cyberwarfare, anyone could do anything anywhere and blame it on the U.S.Say, for instance, individual Israelis started hacking Iranian computers or vice versa, or Taliban sympathizers started attacking Pakistani systems or Indian systems. ...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, reluctant crew, attack, cyberattack

Discussion threads 2009-08-02

Eurofighter for Pearl (240x320) 1.0 (Mobile)

Thethreat ofglobal terrorism isatanew high, intelligence hasled agroup oftherenowned Blade squadron ofEurofighters to aremote location with thesole duty ofending this war forever. Your job as squadron leader Blade 1 is toinfiltrate theenemy bases and bring down theterrorists at allcosts.Your mission willsee you negotiate 12levels inavariety ofstunning locations, from thebeautiful island...

Tags: Mobile, Blade, Leader, Location, Herocraft, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Leadership, Homeland Security, Servers, Hardware, Management, Government

Software downloads 2009-07-28

Eurofighter for Pearl (240x260) 1.0 (Mobile)

Thethreat ofglobal terrorism isatanew high, intelligence hasled agroup oftherenowned Blade squadron ofEurofighters to aremote location with thesole duty ofending this war forever. Your job as squadron leader Blade 1 is toinfiltrate theenemy bases and bring down theterrorists at allcosts.Your mission willsee you negotiate 12levels inavariety ofstunning locations, from thebeautiful island...

Tags: Mobile, Blade, Leader, Location, Herocraft, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Leadership, Homeland Security, Servers, Hardware, Management, Government

Software downloads 2009-07-28

Eurofighter (320x240) (Mobile)

Thethreat ofglobal terrorism isatanew high, intelligence hasled agroup oftherenowned Blade squadron ofEurofighters to aremote location with thesole duty ofending this war forever. Your job as squadron leader Blade 1 is toinfiltrate theenemy bases and bring down theterrorists at allcosts.Your mission willsee you negotiate 12levels inavariety ofstunning locations, from thebeautiful island...

Tags: Mobile, Blade, Leader, Location, Herocraft, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Leadership, Homeland Security, Servers, Hardware, Management, Government

Software downloads 2009-07-27

China's Green Dam and the cyberwar implications

Guest editorial by Oliver Day Chinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People's Liberation Army.  Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the...

Tags: Software, China, Vulnerability, Computer, Chinese Internet, Green Dam, Government, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Vertical Industries, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Iranian opposition launches organized cyber attack against pro-Ahmadinejad sites

Approximately 24 hours ago, the Iranian opposition coordinated an ongoing cyber attack that has successfully managed to disrupt access to major pro-Ahmadinejad Iranian web sites, including the President's homepage which continues returning a "The maximum number of user  reached, Server is too busy, please try again later..." message. ...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Web, Server, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Iran, Attack, Presstv.ir, SupportIran.php, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-15

China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?

China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?Interesting! There is no way that you can start from scratch these days and have a usable OS in a reasonable time. Look how long it has taken Linux distros to catch up to Mac and Windows and they...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, OS Kylin, U.S, security

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?

Picture a cyber warfare arms race where the participating countries have spent years of building offensive cyber warfare capabilities by exploiting the monoculture on one another's IT infrastructure. Suddenly, one of the countries starts migrating to a hardened operating system of its own, and by integrating it...

Tags: China, Operating System, Operating Systems, Linux, Software, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-05-13

iPhone users don't use device for work, study says

iPhone users don't use device for work, study saysI use my iPhone for bothThough the "preponderance" of use is personal. I guess a good follow-up question would be, for those of us tho use it primarily for "play", is "Does the iPhone meet your business use needs?" For me the...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, U.S. Marine Corps, iPhone 3, business phone, Apple iPhone, soldier

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Using the iPod as a weapon

The iPod has lots of uses: music and movie player, photo album, contact and calendar organizer and military tool? The U.S. armed forces are deploying the iPod touch to troops stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq for use as translation tools and for "networked warfare" linking soldiers to...

Tags: Apple iPod, Soldier, Apple iPod Touch, U.S. Marine Corps, BulletFlight, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-20

PirateBay founders guilty

PirateBay founders guiltymehPiracy is NOT "ok". It's illegal, it's wrong, and it's cheap, and it's evil!Now, that being said, I'm going to a flaming pit in a handbasket when I die.The recording/movie industry has no one to blame for their "immense damages" except for themselves. They held onto business practices...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, PirateBay, tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

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

Conficker Cabal fights threat to security, Internet

ICANN is leading the white hats in an "extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle" against the forces behind the Conficker malware, John Markoff reports in the Times. Dancho Danchev noted recently that: Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain...

Tags: Researcher, Malware, Conficker Program, Internet, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-19