Sep
18
2009
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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Jul
21
2009
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
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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Feb
16
2009
A TechRepublic pundit dared to ask if antivirus firms have the right to manipulate DNS queries en masse to protect society from the Downadup worm. This forces us to ask “Who watches the Watchmen?”
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Tags: Conficker, Conflicker, DNS, Downadup, Joe SixPack, Michael Kassner, OpenDNS, TechRepublic, The China Syndrome, USAF, virus, worm
Dionysius AFB, Politics of computer security | Rob Rosenberger |
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Jan
28
2009
For at least two years, CEO John Thompson’s firm secretly turned over computer viruses to China’s oppressive government — and he kept both Clinton and Bush in the dark about it. News reports now say President Obama wants to nominate him for Commerce Secretary. So — what will “Secretary Thompson” keep secret from Obama?
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Tags: China, FBI, Fox News, John Thompson, Richard Clarke, Secretary of Commerce, Symantec, The China Syndrome, White House, Y2K
Politics of computer security, Scandalabra, Symantec | Rob Rosenberger |
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Jan
20
2009
A blogger at SANS worries that innocent and well-meaning Internet users will threaten the very foundations of the Internet during the inauguration of Barack Obama…
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