With Halloween right around the corner, many of us are casting about for creative costume ideas. Here’s a suggestion for a truly frightening option — try being a cyber criminal or a terrorist.
“Proliferation is a real problem, and no country is prepared to deal with it,” said Melissa Hathaway, a former United States national cybersecurity coordinator.
The White House’s failure to assign agencies cybersecurity roles and responsibilities has slowed efforts to implement President Obama’s plan for protecting computer networks, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
A map of online communities in 2010. Much has changed since the days of only email and sms.
FBI Director Robert Mueller called for changes in federal law to help his agents with surveillance of communications in anti-terrorism and other criminal investigations.
Bruce has a thoughtful post about the Stuxnet worm . Worth reading.
On Tuesday, a German computer specialist offered a hint that Israel may be behind the sophisticated malware.
Information technology, and the world’s reliance on it, has redefined the front lines of national security, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City yesterday.
“Any major future conflict will almost certainly include elements of cyberwarfare,” he said. “And the threat posed by cyberwarfare extends far beyond military operations – it extends to the very heart of our economy.”
Anonymous, the online collective engaged in a global cyber-war with the pro-copyright industry, has said it will not end its attacks until it stops being angry at its enemies.
The Cyber Storm series simulates large-scale cyber events and attacks on the government and the nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR)—so that collective cyber preparedness and response capabilities can be measured against realistic and credible national-level events.
Marvin Ammori 