Patrick Dempsey, a former FBI cybercrimes investigator, stirred up controversy yesterday with a proposal to fix the ‘Net’s security problems by building a second one and by strengthening digital borders.
[From A second, safer Internet: is it feasible, let alone possible?]
We ran an article about the new Air Force Cyber Command and its recruiting efforts on February 13, 2008. Now Major General William Lord, who is in charge of this effort, has agreed to answer Slashdot users’ questions. If you’re thinking about joining up — or just curious — this is a golden [...]
If you’ve administered any remote Linux machines then you are already familiar with SSH, but you might not know that you can use SSH for much more than just connecting to a shell on a remote system. By using SSH’s port forwarding features, you can set up encrypted tunnels for many [...]
In my experience, the open approach, promotes open discussion, open experimentation, open solutions, and rapid growth. If you were looking for a market where the concept of “give a little and get a lot” works, you have arrived. [From In Praise of Openness]
The Cyber Commission has loose ties with each of the remaining presidential campaigns, yet members admit they don’t expect all of their recommendations to be followed. [From Black Hat Conference: Experts Develop Cybersecurity Recommendations For Next President]
David Axe has an excellent contribution to Wired’s Danger Room on the military struggles to leverage open source medium for networking ideas and discussion. His suggestion caught my attention. I’m not saying that Army forums should be totally unprotected from insurgent snoopers. But they should be expanded, and loosened, to allow [...]
There are going to be some great stories to tell, or hear, assuming some of this gets declassified when the satellite shot completes. We remain impressed with how much effort the Navy is putting into this show. All those reporters in Virginia are probably oblivious to what is happening right under [...]
Ten years after Back Orifice, the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group has again published a hacker tool with classic potential: Goolag Scan searches Google systematically for tell-tale information. [From Cult of the Dead Cow turns Google into a vulnerability scanner]
Back in August, [h1kari] presented an analysis of the A5 crypto spec used in GSM systems. Almost all GSM conversations in the US and Europe are encrypted using this standard. At the time they were still in the planning stages of building their rainbow table of shift register states. Today we [...]
Role-based access control (RBAC) is a general security model that simplifies administration by assigning roles to users and then assigning permissions to those roles. Learn how RBAC in SELinux acts as a layer of abstraction between the user and the underlying TE model, and how the three pieces of an SELinux [...]
Lawmakers let surveillance law lapse [From Brief: Lawmakers let surveillance law lapse]
bsdphx writes “OpenSSH developers Damien Miller and Markus Friedl have recently added a nifty feature to make life easier for admins. Now you can easily lock an SSH session into a chroot directory, restrict them to a built-in sftp server and apply these settings per user. And it’s dead simple to do. If [...]
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Senate passes wiretap bill, grants immunity [From Brief: Senate passes wiretap bill, grants immunity]
Dr. Eggman writes “In an interview with the Star-Telegram, the Air Force’s chief scientist, Mark Lewis, talks about the USAF’s latest research direction. The service is working on hypersonic missile and bombers for the purposes of reconnaissance and attack. In response to Chinese and Russian anti-satellite developments, the Air Force plans to develop [...]
Back in November we pointed out that the US appears to have lost control of its nuclear policy in relation to Russia. We highlighted that the United States will spend $448M in the FY08 budget on dismantling Russian nuclear weapons, which is a good cause, but by paying for the dismantling it is [...]
An anonymous reader writes “How will you use XML in years to come? The wheels of progress turn slowly, but turn they do. The outline of XML’s future is becoming clear. The exact timeline is a tad uncertain, but where XML is going isn’t. XML’s future lies with the Web, and more specifically [...]
Cyber Sabotage is yet another new wrinkle in the emerging threats from cyber space. Whether delivered over the internet or purposefully installed during the manufacturing process, contaminated hardware or software is now a concern. Sabotage is defined as deliberate and malicious acts that result in the disruption of the normal processes and functions or the [...]
While American press reports continually headline China’s buildup of naval forces, in reality there is only one warship category in which the Chinese Navy is superior to the U.S. fleet — diesel-electric submarines. In no other category is the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy even close to U.S. Navy force levels or capabilities.
The Chinese have [...]
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