Tag: cybersecurity
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Internet Routing Structure Most Vulnerable
The military can only defend its own networks not the private-sector critical networks we all depend on for gas, water, electricity and banking, making such military efforts a waste of taxpayers’ money.
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Stuxnet Remains Problem for Iran Nuke Sites
Cybersecurity experts in the United States report an increase in internet traffic to their websites from Iran. The experts add there appears to be, also, strenuous efforts to hide the traffic’s origin.
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Defense Official Discloses Cyberattack
Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008.
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Defcon 7/22: Bleaker For Bloggers
False flag cyber attack could takedown the internet // Obama joins UN to dictate acceptable behavior on the net // Feds ignore 1st Amendment, shut down 1000s of blogs // Google launches coverup of ‘Google Spies’ story
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Defcon 7/15: Tracked, Traced & Databased
Consumer group sniffs Congresswoman’s open wi-fi // Fmr. NSA exec Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak // NSA executive leaked after official reporting process failed // Mobile phones ‘causing memory loss’ // Teens using digital drugs to get high
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Defcon 7/1: Fight the Net, Biomet & Int’l Sex Station
The secret state’s mad scheme to control the net // Windows 8 features, like biometrics, revealed in leaked Microsoft documents // Obama space plan under continuous assault // NASA commander says sex banned aboard International Space Station
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Cybersecurity Measures Would Mandate Govt ‘ID Tokens’ To Use Net
The move to shut down and regulate the Internet under a new government-controlled system has accelerated into high gear with the announcement that the government’s cybersecurity strategy revolves around issuing Internet users with ID “tokens” without which they will not be able to visit websites…
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obama internet ‘kill switch’ plan approved by US senate
from techworld: A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the […]
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Pentagon Says Military Response to Cyber Attack ‘Possible’
The Pentagon would consider a military response in the case of a cyber attack against the United States, a US defense official said on Wednesday. “Yes, we need to think about the potential for responses that are not limited to the cyber domain.”
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WV’s Rockefeller Calls for ‘Public-Private Action’ on Cybersecurity
Cyberattacks aren’t confined by governmental or national boundaries, and neither should cybersecurity programs, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), said recently in calling on government and industry to work together to meet the rapidly rising tide of attacks on U.S. information systems.
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CIA Head Panetta Says ‘Cyber Attack Could Be Next Pearl Harbor’
Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next “Pearl Harbor” is likely to be an attack on the United States’ power, financial, military and other Internet systems.
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Pentagon’s Cybercom Says Civilian Infrastructure “Legitimate” Target
When U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates launched Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) last June, the memorandum authorizing its stand-up specified it as a new “subordinate unified command” under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), one that “must be capable of synchronizing warfighting effects across the global security environment as well as providing support to civil authorities and international partners.”
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defcon 4/15: transhumanism, twitter, radio waves & fireballs
merging man & machine: we are the internet* youtube goes orwellian: now requires sms from every new registrant* how tweet it is!: library of congress acquires entire twitter archive* russia […]