The cover story of the current issue of National Journal reports in depth on China’s cyber-aggression against US targets in the government, military, and business. We have discussed China’s actions on numerous occasions over the years. The news in this report is the suggestion that Chinese cyber-attakers may have been involved [...]
CNet story about a discussion from Google’s Jeff Dean spotlighting some of the inner workings of the search giant’s massive data centers. Quoting: “‘Our view is it’s better to have twice as much hardware that’s not as reliable than half as much that’s more reliable,’ Dean said. ‘You have to provide reliability on [...]
While rootkits for common operating systems, like Windows, are well known, they haven’t been a security issue for Cisco’s IOS until now.
[From Cisco IOS Rootkit Demonstrated]
Get the most from your TomTom, Garmin, Magellan, or other GPS device by learning how to speed satellite lock, send maps from your PC, create POIs, and more from our GPS expert.
[From Top 10 GPS Tips And Tricks]
Did China’s Hackers Shut Off the Lights?— Hackers working on behalf of China’s People’s Liberation Army have penetrated networks controlling electric power grids in the United States, computer security experts believe. And that may have precipitated a massive blackout …
[From Did China's Hackers Shut Off the Lights? (Updated) (Noah Shachtman/Danger Room)]
Dr. Jim writes “The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years. The usual suspects including multi-core chips, virtualization, and cloud computing are on the list. Multicore servers and virtualization will mean that firms [...]
One of the most interesting features in Solaris is its ZFS filesystem. Read on for a quick guide to ZFS administration.
[From Solving Common Administration Problems with ZFS]
As the new 802.11n spec, with its increased speed, coverage, and reliability, intersects with a broader selection of vendor offerings, wireless is becoming a viable platform for mission-critical network connectivity.
[From 802.11n Is Here. Get Ready For A Wire-Free Enterprise]
I would link to the press release, but it doesn’t exist. New photography this week highlights the 3rd Yuan Class submarine has been launched. The first photo is a comparison of the first two Yuan class submarines launched, with the remaining photo’s of the 3rd Yuan recently launched.
The 2008 [...]
The Challenge From China
The standard way to take control of someone else’s computer is by exploiting a vulnerability in a software program on it. This was true in the 1960s when buffer overflows were first exploited to attack computers. It was true in 1988 when the Morris worm exploited a Unix vulnerability to attack computers on [...]
Dr. Andrew S. Erickson is one of the premier sources on Chinese Maritime analysis, and a blog favorite. Previous coverage of his work here and here. Last year Dr. Erickson published New U.S. Maritime Strategy: Initial Chinese Responses, an examination and insightful study of China’s reaction to the new US Maritime [...]
How dangerous is China? Ask the Russians, who are organizing their lawyers to go after the one place China seems to take seriously, their wallet. There has been some very interesting discussions taking place over in Russia, and it turns out, while they didn’t really care that the Type 39 Song [...]
Has China “secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region”? Thomas Harding, writing in the London Daily Telegraph early this month, has declared that it is.
According to Hardy, “Satellite imagery, passed to The Daily Telegraph, shows that a substantial harbour has been built [...]
A Canadian law clinic has asked the country’s Privacy Commissioner to take a closer look at the deep packet inspection being used by Bell Canada and others. While the technology also raises net neutrality concerns, in this case the issue is privacy.
[From Deep packet inspection under assault over privacy concerns]
Deep packet inspection gets a major speed bump to 80Gbps of real-time traffic analysis with 96 percent accuracy. Even the largest networks can now throttle P2P with ease… even when it’s encrypted.
[From Throttle 5 million P2P users with $800K DPI monster]
U.S. military to build botnet?
[From Brief: U.S. military to build botnet?]
[From Proposed Cybersecurity Bill To Pressure DHS ]
There are new developments in the case of the counterfeit Cisco routers, which we have been discussing for some time. The NYTimes updates the story after an FBI PowerPoint presentation made its way onto the Web. It seems that experts at Cisco have examined some of the counterfeit routers in detail [...]
IBM Developerworks’ recent analysis of how the NSA built SELinux to withstand attacks. The article shows us some of the relevant kernel architecture and compares SELinux to a few other approaches. We’ve discussed SELinux in the past. Quoting: “If you have a program that responds to socket requests but doesn’t need [...]
Bad Behavior has blocked 990 access attempts in the last 7 days.