Sep 01 2010

We have met the enemy, and he is USB

Someday in the future, U.S. Cyber Command will look back and say “in hindsight, we can see it was an institu­tion­a­lized failure of CRM…”

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Aug 31 2010

Alas! Poor SCADASEC. I knew its horror ratio.

A column we pub­lished in 2009 led to the demise of the SCADASEC com­pu­ter secu­rity mailing list. “[I] agree com­pletely with what you have to say,” moder­a­tor Bob Radva­novsky explained…

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Dec 01 2009

Degree-mill grad runs a certificate mill for IT security workers

The artist formerly known as “Dr. Kevin G. Coleman, Ph.D.” purchased his doctoral degree from a diploma mill. Now, Coleman’s “Technolytics Institute” will bestow you with IT security certifications for a paltry $275 to $300…

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Sep 18 2009

Doolittle Raider: “we didn’t really think about the future”

If experts really were pondering the long-term conse­quences of cyber-warfare, they’d be talking about ephemeral concepts like cyber military grave­yards and cyber warfare museums and a solemn “Doolittle Cyber Raiders” ceremony every anni­ver­sary for 67 years to comme­mo­rate a fateful network attack…

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Sep 07 2009

”Muslim terrorists” defaced this site on 3 Sep 09

Yeah, this site got defaced. Tell the midwives to stop wailing…

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Aug 17 2009

”The need for computer security outweighs the profit of copyrights”

Many com­pu­ter secu­rity mailing lists routinely violate copy­rights. It’s so per­va­sive that — in theory — you can lapse all of your expen­sive paid sub­scrip­tions and get all of it de­livered for free to your inbox…

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Aug 10 2009

“Lord AFB” on the horizon?

“Some­day they’re going to name a base after a [cyber­space] hero…”

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Jul 21 2009

Part 3: USAF CIO still on hiatus

Is this guy ROAD or what? He just got promoted for failing to use his official “bully pulpit 2.0″ for its intended purpose…

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Jul 14 2009

Murder on the AFCYBER Express

If you believe the official story line, USAF aborted “AFCYBER” only at the eleventh hour after they suffered a string of embarrassing nuclear accidents. Here, in Paul Harvey fashion, we reveal “the rest of the story…”

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Jun 21 2009

Rosenberger to Microsoft: “WTFO?”

Some­thing is wrong when Micro­soft turns away a staunchly pro-Redmond com­pu­ter secu­rity critic willing to fly in on his own dime for briefings on their new free antivirus software…

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