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Is It FUD?
Is it FUD?
I don't think so; therefore, it probably is.
@nanofoo tweeted the following on 2010.01.30.
Obama said nothing in his State of the Union address about
the state of the Union w/respect to cyberwarfare preparedness
According to PopSci.com... "we are not prepared."
U.S. Wargamers Wrap Up Massive Cyberattack Drill: "We Are Not Prepared"
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Is the U.S. Ready For Cyberwarfare?
TechNews.ACM.org had a posting titled "In Cyber War, Most of
U.S. Must Defend Itself" on 2010.02.10 and it started with
the following.
"There are concerns that the United States is extremely
vulnerable to a full-scale cyberattack, and the U.S.
Cyber Command is not in a position to protect U.S.
civilian computer networks [...]"
The TechNews.ACM.org posting included the following.
"Meanwhile, U.S. military networks are under constant
cyberattack because they are such an appealing target,
according to Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn.
'And the frequency and sophistication of attacks are
increasing exponentially,' he notes.
I believe this is true because we're living in
exponential times.
More from the TechNews.ACM.org posting titled
"In Cyber War, Most of U.S. Must Defend Itself."
"McAfee hints at the possibility that countries are
competing in a quiet cyber arms race, and communications
systems, banks, and power grids are just as likely to be
targets as military networks."
Note: McAfee is an "antivirus software and computer security company
headquartered in Santa Clara, California."
[Extra]
@nanofoo tweeted the following on 2010.02.07.
China & Russia dominate 2010 ACM Intl. Collegiate
Programming Contest http://bit.ly/cVLdpz
@nanofoo tweeted the following on 2010.01.30.
Obama said nothing in his State of the Union address about
the state of the Union w/respect to cyberwarfare preparedness.
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Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009
The House voted 422-5 in favor of H.R. 4061 -- The Cybersecurity
Enhancement Act of 2009.
"The bill requires the Obama administration to conduct an
agency-by-agency assessment of cybersecurity workforce skills
and establishes a scholarship program for undergraduate and
graduate students who agree to work as cybersecurity specialists
for the government after graduation."
[source: NYTimes.com via Slashdot.org]
Yikes! politician Michael Arcuri said, "Nearly every high school
hacker has the potential to hamper our unfettered access
to the Internet. Just image what a rogue state could do."
FYI to Arcuri: Kids not yet in high school can be crackers.
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009
[04 February 2010, top]
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Digital Privacy Day 2010
28 January 2010 was Data
Privacy Day
"Data Privacy Day is an international celebration of the dignity
of the individual expressed through personal information."
Data Privacy Day... "digital lives in a networked world."
[28 January 2010, top]
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DARPA's Cyber Genome Program
DARPA's Cyber Genome Program Proposers' Day is on 29 January 2010.
"The objective of the Cyber Genome Program is to produce
revolutionary cyber defense and investigatory technologies
for the collection, identification, characterization, and
presentation of properties and relationships from collected
digital artifacts of software, data, and/or users to support
DoD law enforcement, counter intelligence, and cyber defense
teams. Digital artifacts may be collected from live systems
(traditional computers, personal digital assistants, and/or
distributed information systems such as 'cloud computers'),
from wired or wireless networks, or collected storage media.
The format may include electronic documents or software (to
include malicious software - malware). The Cyber Genome Program
will encompass several program phases and technical areas of
interest. Each of the technical areas will develop the cyber
equivalent of fingerprints or DNA to facilitate developing
the digital equivalent of genotype, as well as observed and
inferred phenotype in order to determine the identity, lineage,
and provenance of digital artifacts and users."
[source: FBO.gov via Wired.com]
The Wired.com headline should have read:
"Pentagon Searches for 'Digital DNA' to Identify
Hackers Crackers"
[26 January 2010, top]
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Bruce Schneier On China Cracking Gmail
When Bruce Schneier shares information, I try to learn from it.
"China's hackers subverted the access system Google
put in place to comply with U.S. intercept orders."
Dear Mr. Schneier... And I know this is a little thing, but please,
please, please write cracking instead of hacking.
U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google
[24 January 2010, top]
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Computer Security Remains an Oxymoron
@nanofoo received the following tweet from
@hblodget on 2010.01.18.
Is Google Going To Address The Fact That So Many Gmail
Accounts Are Getting Hacked? http://bit.ly/76OW0I
And of course the accounts are being cracked (i.e. not hacked).
@nanofoo sent following tweet as a reply to
@hblodget on 2010.01.18.
About Google Gmail being cracked... Oxymoron? computer security
In a nutshell, Google's Gmail is popular; therefore, it is
going to be a popular target for crackers and cyber-terrorists.
The fact that Gmail gets cracked provides definitive proof
that computer security is downright difficult and it is why
computer security gurus make lots of money.
[18 January 2010, top]
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Baidu Cracked By Crackers
The Slashdot posting makes reference to the "Iranian Cyber Army."
"Chinese netizens pointed out that the hackers, who call
themselves 'Iranian Cyber Army', changed Baidu's DNS
records, redirecting traffic to another site."
--English.People.com.cn
The "hackers" that took down Baidu were "crackers."
Twitter Hackers Take Down Baidu
[13 January 2010, top]
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Google Gmail To Default To HTTPS
I agree with Google's assessment.
"Over the last few months, we've been researching the
security/latency tradeoff and decided that turning https
on for everyone was the right thing to do."
Default https access for Gmail
[13 January 2010, top]
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2010 Starts With a SpamAssassin Bug
Yup... With respect to regular expressions 20[1-9][0-9] matches 2010.
Yet more evidence (like we needed more) that processing dates and
times on a computer is non-trivial.
SpamAssassin 2010 bug
[02 January 2010, top]
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About the Security Watchdog
The starts 2010
with 497 postings. This blog was started during March of 2000
and the current world of computer security is worse now than it
was then. Needless to say, there will always be content for the
for at least the
next couple of years.
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