Because you were probably just thinking that your choices on operating systems were feeling a little limited. [From Sun Launches OpenSolaris on a Post-OS World]
Browsing Posts published in May, 2008
India, Belgium warn of Chinese attacks [From Brief: India, Belgium warn of Chinese attacks]
[From FBI Backs Down On Web Gagging Order]
Excellent article, chronicling the surveillance debate from the mid 1980s until today. Don’t expect good coverage of the current debate, however: the legality of the NSA’s recent domestic eavesdropping program, and the legality of the assistance provided by the telcos.
Can the Linux community get over its “not invented here” ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a culture of inclusion and not of [...]
Esther Schindler writes “CSO has an annotated, zoomable map of real botnet topologies showing shows the interconnections between the compromised computers and the command-and-control systems that direct them. The map is based on work by security researcher David Voreland; it has interactive controls so you can zoom in and explore botnets’ inner workings. Hackers use [...]
This article first appeared in Aviation Week’s Ares Weblog. President Bush publicly acknowledged that Syria has been doing something suspicious involving nuclear development and North Korea. Following his lead, other officials are quietly dropping clues about how Syrias suspicious facility was attacked. The Israel Air Force’s stunning, undetected flight through Syria’s air defenses late last [...]
China is well known for its global cyber espionage efforts. And while the United States has received most of the media attention given to cyber attacks, we are not the only ones dealing with this issue. India is now pointing the finger at China, claiming they have systematically launched a series of attacks on sensitive [...]
The F-117 Nighthawk — the U.S. Air Force’s greatly touted stealth attack aircraft — is gone. At least, we think it’s gone — can one really be certain with a stealth airplane? The aircraft, which won combat honors during operations over Panama, Serbia, and Iraq, was officially retired in late April after a 27-year service [...]
OpenSolaris: Excellent OS but is the license holding it back? [From OpenSolaris Just Wants to be Free]
Attackers can exploit a hole in one of the components of the widely used WonderWare range of SCADA systems to deny service. [From Denial of service hole in WonderWare SCADA systems]
[From SSL Capable NetCat]
Wired’s Threat Level has a piece on a recently-declassified document detailing the history of TEMPEST. “It was 1943, and an engineer with Bell Telephone was working on one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive and important pieces of wartime machinery, a Bell Telephone model 131-B2. It was a top secret encrypted teletype terminal used by [...]
IEEE Spectrum story on an interesting DARPA project with some scary implications about just what it is we don’t know about what chips are doing under the surface. It’s a difficult problem to find invasive or otherwise malicious capabilities built into a CPU; this project’s goal is to see whether vendors can find such hardware-level [...]
