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Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfare

As widely reported (ZDNet's Zero Day blog summarizes the events as well as anyone), Georgia government websites site down were attacked in just about the time frame as Russia's Prague 1968-style attack of the country. The question is, who's responsible? The Russian government appears to have managed to keep its...

Tags: Georgia, Attack, Russian Government, VNUnet, Government, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Russia installing Linux in every school in the country

Russia installing Linux in every school in the countryHeh heh heh.....of that I have no doubt.But maybe that "IS" the very reason they don't want to do business with MS either. After all they don't control the backdoors nor do they know what is being reported back too MS...

Tags: Vertical industries, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Development tools, Russian Government, Microsoft Corp., government, software, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-09-20

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Asia-Pacific leaders: no final deal in Copenhagen

Here Harry, take this tylenol.You're way too excited.The end of US freedomsWelcome to the new world where you are going tobe taxed and wealth transferred to other countries.2010 Vote them out.2012 Vote him out.Here's some better newshttp://www.climatedepot.com/a/3515/Prominent-Russian-Scientist-We-should-fear-a-deep-temperature-drop--not-catastrophic-global-warmingThanks to solar cycles, there's more to fear from COOLING than warming.Harry is such...

Tags: Government, leader, global warming, rich nation

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Massachusetts becomes Canada as reform debate nears climax

Obamacare ship is sinkingPeople saw the light with the failed socialist experiment in mASSachusetts, so liberal politicians like Barnie Frank can stuck their health care reform where the sun doesn't shine.Yeah, the ship is sinking, but it is Obama who's rearanging the chairs to give Pelosi and Reid front row...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

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

Russia drops XP investigation

Finally.That case was BS. XP is old and Microsoft doesn't want to support it anymore. It's not like this was in the books from day 1, they have a set support cycle. Eventually, you have to let it go. Too bad, so sad. Either use Vista/7 or move to a...

Tags: Mice, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OEM, XP investigation, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Cutting imaging proves a win-win-win

Ionizing Radiation Is Very Dangerousand must be employed very, very carefully.If it's not absolutely necessary, [u]don't[/u].Anyone familiar with nuclear physics, engineering, or medicine knows that it only takes one ionizing radiation event to damage one single cell's DNA such that the cell becomes malignantly cancerous to start a life-threatening illness.Any...

Tags: Document management, Vertical industries, win-win-win, imaging, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Russia cooperated with hackers in Georgian cyberattack

A report from the nonprofit US Cyber Consequences Unit confirms what only made sense about last year's cyber attack on Georgia. It was carried about by independent groups with a special relationship to the Russian government. As InfoWeek relates, the report concludes: "Many of the cyber attacks...

Tags: Cyberattack, Hacker, Attack, Hacking, Government, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Did Russians attack Twitter over pro-Georgian blogger?

Russian Hackers - Russian Submarines clearly a msg is being sentMore concerned about Russian Cyber thieves at the present time than Russian Submarines recent events. Seems there are both Russian government and non-government actors.--- They are compromising computers around the world (India, South America, Africa,...) that have weak security and...

Tags: Blogging, SECURITY, pro-Georgian, pro-Georgian blogger, attack, Twitter, blogger

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Did Russians attack Twitter over pro-Georgian blogger?

It was one year ago today that Russia invaded Georgia over the South Ossetia region. Yesterday someone unleashed a massive botnet DDOS attack on Twitter, Facebook and Google. The crash of Twitter under this onslaught was the big story yesterday. Now it seems the whole thing was an attack on...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Attack, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington stateWhat next, they'll terminate everyone's licensing agreements and thenhit the kill switch?Governments should be bullying corporations. Not the other way around. (or perhaps neither side should bully the other?)Typical MicroshaftHire foreigners, make the taxpayers foot the bill...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, government, Microsoft Corp., Washington State, Quincy facility, Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Has government red-tape and politics hurt cybersecurity efforts?

Governmental red tape - and probably some Washington politics, as well - has prompted the White House's senior cybersecurity aide to resign, according to reports. Her reason: delays in appointing a national cybersecurity czar. Melissa E. Hathaway, who was also a cybersecurity aide during the Bush years,...

Tags: Government, Cybersecurity, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-04

US, S. Korean websites under attack; N. Korea blamed

US, S. Korean websites under attack; N. Korea blamedattacks from Windows machinesThese are infected Windows operating system computers that are attacking the government sites. Will we ever learn?RE: US, S. Korean websites under attack; N. Korea blamedIs this story real? It seems like this would be a little more...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, SECURITY, Cyberwarfare, Korean website, attack, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attack

Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attackGreen dam removal.It seems that if Green Dam is a stolen program then the programs owner should be able to disable it. Why not Bomb all of the Chinese Green dam programs and solve the problem once and for...

Tags: SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Communist, NOW IT, Green Dam, attack, USSR, software

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Bumbling around and failing every which way . . . lessons for success

Vinod Khosla is one of Silicon Valley's most successful VCs. I was at the recent SDForum Visionary Awards where Mr Khosla was one of four winners of the 2009 awards. His acceptance speech was short and very good. Excellent advice for entrepreneurs. Also, he talks about failure, which...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Vision, Vinod Khosla, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-28

Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying Guide

Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying GuideAmerican Values?In which modern democracy, Israel included, would you find an ad-campaign like this inoffensive to women?You're way off-base there...1) You [i]do[/i] understand the difference between human beings and animals, don't you?2) It was an [i]Internet[/i] ad, launched on Facebook, and in...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Bacardi Ltd., Rum

Discussion threads 2009-06-21

Iran protests meet the social Web: What we've learned

Iran protests meet the social Web: What we've learnedOne thing we have also learnedis that liberals are just as naive and ignorant as they have always been.Anyone who thought this election meant anything at all was a naive fool. Anyone who thinks this will end in any other way than...

Tags: Government, Dictatorships, social Web

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

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

Russian antitrust unit targets Microsoft over XP availability

Russian antitrust unit targets Microsoft over XP availabilityThe real reason Russia wants XP to remainMy guess is that the Russians are attempting to keep the older, less secure operating systems around as they have spent a great deal of time and money learning to hack those systems. Heaven forbid if...

Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, XP availability, operating system, antitrust unit, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor

Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investorThe global economy is upon us.Isn't it great that other countries have money to spend nowadays?One World / One Government / One CorporationWell, this is nothing new. The "One World Utopian Ideal" has been going on since the Tower of Babel. ...

Tags: investor, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-05-26