The cyber-cassandras vs the cyber-pollyannas
When I blogged here about the recent announcement that backdoors had been left in the US grid infrastructure, I had predicted that many would respond with the standard “hackers with no ties to any...
View ArticleCyber-attack in Morgan Hill
Bruce Perens has an interesting article about an event that garnered far less attention than it should: Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes...
View ArticleCyber-warfare for dummies
There is a strange resistance among many computer security pundits to believe that Russia has engaged in cyber-warfare on its neighbors. This is mostly due to a combination of left-over resentment of...
View ArticleThe tweet revolution?
If the people if Iran ultimately win their freedom, will this be the tweet revolution? Twitter is apparently playing a critical role in the resistance effort: The U.S. State Department even reportedly...
View ArticleCounter argument on cyber-security
This is an interesting article by Evgeny Morozov that posits a counter argument on cyber-security. The gist is that the cyber-warfare drums are being beaten by those with much to gain by the user...
View ArticleThose darn kids
Bruce Schneier dismisses North Korean government involvement in the recent DDOS incident, as well as some others in the past: It was hyped as the first cyberwar, but after two years there is still no...
View ArticleThe big kill switch
There is a troubling bill being drafted by Sen Rockefeller that would give the US government the power to essentially kill the internet (at least the US corner of it). The bill would give the...
View ArticleWhat’s not being said
I usually find what’s not being said far more interesting than the platitudes that are uttered. According to this article Google and China are negotiating a face saving compromise to allow Google to...
View ArticleMAD, MAD, MAD, MAD World
Nico Popp suggests that incidents such as the recent Google hack may lead to governments and large corporations adopting a form of Mutually Assured Destruction cyber defense. On one hand there is a lot...
View ArticleRise of SaaW?
There are a couple of interesting articles on Stuxnet out recently. This article poses the astonishing possibility that it was a directed attack at the Iranian Bushehr nuclear plant. The arguments...
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