In Through The Out Door

Computers and networks have blurred the boundaries when you look at cyber warfare, cyber crime, and cyber terrorism. There is no doubt that future conflicts will involve cyber warfare between nations. Distinguishing between military and criminal and civilian attacks is tough and could create a dangerous problem in determining who is behind a cyber attack. [...]

In the face of growing demand to target security investments based on risk management principles–a domain foreign to many CIOs and infosec practitioners–there’s wisdom to be garnered from our peers.

[From 2008 Security Survey: We're Spending More, But Data's No Safer Than Last Year]

OPEC’s Strategic End Run on Progressive Energy Policy

InfoWorld’s Tom Yager offers insight on how digital TV is rapidly heading toward the kind of lockdown that entertainment and broadcast lobbies desire for the Internet. Standards such as HDMI and HDCP are acting in concert to strip your equipment of its functionality, displaying ‘incompatibility’ messages when plugged into older HDMI-enabled devices, shutting [...]

Throughout history wars have been triggered by events. Being at war is a state or condition. To be legal, a war must be declared by a branch of the government entrusted by the Constitution with this power. In the Constitution of the United States, Article I provides Congress the power to declare war. War is [...]

Is the US falling behind when it comes to science and technology? Not according to an evaluation by the RAND Corporation, performed at the behest of the Department of Defense. The report does identify some areas of concern, and makes some specific recommendations.
[From RAND study: US still #1 in R&D, but sees areas of [...]

More bloggers than ever are being arrested around the world, highlighting the dangers of citizen journalism, according to a new report from the University of Washington.
[From Governments step up blogger arrests]

South Korea launched its third Type 214 submarine last week. While it is often noted the quantity of naval growth taking place in China and India, we continue to observe both growth and quality in the naval forces being produced by South Korea. The addition of Type 214s to the naval mix by [...]

Recently much attention is being given to the topic of cyber warfare and rightfully so. Our computers and networks are under continuous attack from all over the world. The level of sophistication of these attacks and the quality of the code written to perform these attacks both have raised significantly in the past year. Experts [...]

Schwartz a Chief to Mend Fences

[From Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network ]

[From iWork and Office: How to share files]

The good folks over at Verizon Business have released a report that summarizes what they’ve found after looking through 500 forensic investigations involving 230 million records, and analyzes hundreds of corporate breaches including three of the five largest ones ever reported. What did they find? How about (1) Nearly nine in [...]

Albert writes “Storm shows several key characteristics, some new and advanced. It uses cunning social engineering techniques — such as tying spam campaigns to a current event or site of interest — as well as a blend of email and the Web to spread. It is highly coordinated, yet decentralized — [...]

LinucksGirl writes “Journaling file systems used to be an oddity primarily for research purposes, but today it’s the default in Linux. Discover the ideas behind journaling file systems, and learn how they provide better integrity in the face of a power failure or system crash. Learn about the various journaling file [...]

Your papers please: TSA bans ID-less flight

If you think selling Web 2.0 in your organization is hard, some early backers of a Wikipedia-like project at the Central Intelligence Agency were called traitors and told they “would get someone killed” by their efforts. But Intellipedia — the CIA’s version of Wikipedia — now is so heavily used by [...]

A senior Senate lawmaker, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), told me this morning that he believes the Air Force suffers from “systemic problems” and must examine how it buys weapons, how it manages its forces and perhaps rebuild its long-term strategy in the face of today’s changing international situation.
Sessions a senior member of the Senate Armed [...]

An interview with John De Goes in which he argues: “The tools market is dead. Open source killed it.” The software developer turned president of N-BRAIN explains the effect that open source has had on the developer tools market, and how this forced the company to release the personal edition of [...]

“Chinese hacking is getting some serious Congressional attention. Two House members said Wednesday their Capitol Hill computers, containing information about political dissidents from around the world, have been hacked by sources apparently working out of China. Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf says four of his computers were hacked. New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith says [...]