NSA to defend against hackersIn a major shift, the National Security Agency is drawing up plans for a new domestic assignment: helping protect government and private communications networks from cyberattacks and infiltration by terrorists and hackers, according to current and former intelligence officials.
Browsing Posts published in September, 2007
The World’s Biggest SANs
Hackers reveal day-to-day dangers
ATT continues seriously questionable criminal activities; first NSA, now the MPAAAT&T to Help MPAA Filter the Internet?
One less reason to adopt IPv6? Cisco, Microsoft promote DHCPv6 instead of autoconfiguration
Big Brother is watching us allThe US and UK governments are developing increasingly sophisticated gadgets to keep individuals under their surveillance. When it comes to technology, the US is determined to stay ahead of the game.
Two Storage Engine Updates
Yoggie Pico
China seen as honing cyber-attack skillsIt denies hacking into a Pentagon computer system. But experts say its army has invested heavily in information warfare capabilities.
Get this straight…
OphcrackOphcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as on Linux.
France joins Chinese hacking rowFrance has become the fourth country to speak out against hackers in China following an attack on French government systems.
Company says secure browsing is the future
Seven Wonders of the IT WorldThe fastest supercomputer. The most intriguing data center. The constantly changing core at the heart of Linux. Take a tour of the most impressive and most unusual marvels of the IT world.
Judge overturns portion of PATRIOT ActA Manhattan federal court judge ruled on Thursday that an anti-terrorism tool, known as a National Security Letter, cannot require that recipients remain mum on the existence of such requests without posing significant constitutional problems.
Storm worm botnet more powerful than top supercomputersThat’s the latest word from security researchers who are tracking the burgeoning network of Microsoft Windows machines that have been compromised by the virulent Storm worm, which has pounded the Internet non-stop for the past three months.
Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across AmericaSurely the late Stanley Kubrick is somewhere smiling at this one. Forbes.com has a story about a B-52 Bomber that mistakenly flew 6-nuclear tipped cruise missles across several states last week. The 3-hour flight took the plane from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30.
Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act
Justice Department Opposes Net Neutrality:I was saddened (though not surprised) to read that the Justice Department opposes net neutrality saying that it could “hamper development of the internet.” While it may seem counter-intuitive to me, they argue that allowing ISPs to provide different levels of service/speed for different content will benefit consumers. They did promise to “continue to monitor and enforce any anticompetitive conduct to ensure a competitive broadband marketplace” — not that anyone was worried about that.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Lockheed Martin “eats its own dogfood,” rolls out IPv6:With the federal government ready to invest a billion a year in IPv6, Lockheed Martin uses its own network as a showcase for the move to IPv6, and to highlight its networked warfare technology.Read More…
