In a major shift, the National Security Agency is drawing up plans for a new domestic assignment: helping protect government and private communications networks from cyber-attacks and infiltration by terrorists and hackers, according to current and former intelligence officials.
Browsing Posts published in September, 2007
ATT continues seriously questionable criminal activities; first NSA, now the MPAA
One less reason to adopt IPv6?
Cisco, Microsoft promote DHCPv6 instead of autoconfiguration
Big Brother is watching us all
The 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.
China seen as honing cyber-attack skills
It denies hacking into a Pentagon computer system. But experts say its army has invested heavily in information warfare capabilities.
Ophcrack 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 row
France has become the fourth country to speak out against hackers in China following an attack on French government systems.
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Judge overturns portion of PATRIOT Act
A 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 supercomputers
That’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 America
Surely 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. The incident was so serious that President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were quickly informed and Gates has asked for daily briefings on the Air Force probe, said Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell
Personal Edit: Beyond this extremely major gaff; the US media CONSTANTLY exaggerates for ratings or is really plain clueless about the real reality. These weapons were not really live. All nukes have extensive fail safe mechanisms incorporated by design.
Go Navy Go. Little secret: The US Navy is the only US military branch that has NEVER lost a nuclear weapon; which is known in code as a “Broken Arrow” event. The USAF has managed to accomplished this un-credible feat more than once in it’s short life span.
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.”
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.
