In Through The Out Door

[From Hackers Attack Iraq's Vulnerable Computers ]

U.S. to deploy DNS Security in two years [From Brief: U.S. to deploy DNS Security in two years]

By Kim Zetter

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[From US Data Breaches Booming In '08]

Back in April 17, 2002, DoD executives established U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) as part of the changes brought about by the Unified Command Plan. NORTHCOM is responsible for homeland defense and also serves as head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a U.S.-Canada command. Last week I heard NORTHCOM’s Commander — General Victor [...]

For decades its name could not be spoken outside of a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or mentioned to someone without at least TS/SCI clearance.
It built wondrous satellites that did things like detecting missile launches from space that no one had believed possible until the National Reconnaissance Office did them.
But a string of failures, goofs and [...]

No one saw this coming. Cisco, the networking giant, announced today it was buying PostPath, maker of the Linux-based Exchange server replacement PostPath Server.
[From Cisco buys PostPath, targets Microsoft Exchange]

It is found that anything that can go wrong at sea generally does go wrong sooner or later, so it is not to be wondered that owners prefer the safe to the scientific. It is also found that it is almost as bad to have too many parts as [...]

The Federation of American Scientists security blog has an interesting article up regarding PLA activity to limit the effectiveness of Google Earth. I guess they aren’t very happy.

Chinese military authorities are paying increased attention to foreign satellite reconnaissance of Chinese forces and operations, and are pursuing countermeasures such as [...]

DriveCrypt is an “Ideal to encrypt USB-disks/sticks, secondary disks /partitions, CDs, DVDs, cont…

[From DriveCrypt Security Model Bypass and Incorrect BIOS API Usage ]

“It’s said that if you want to be happy, be a gardener. What about IT security professionals? Having worked as an IT security consultant for several years, I now wonder if my job has a negative influence on my happiness, because it constantly teaches me to focus on the negative side of life: [...]

The physical world battle-space is well known and the parameters defined. Similarly an act of aggression or act of war in the physical sense is just as well defined and accepted. That is not the case when it comes to the cyber battlespace. Federal officials, military leaders, policy scholars and security experts are all looking [...]

The Office of Naval Research held its annual partnership with industry conference last week here in Washington, DC. The envelop-pushing Navy lab is particularly keen on developing “game changing” laser beam and hypervelocity rail gun weapons. Much of the available funding is for early phase modeling and simulation. Some of ONR’s high-priority research areas include:
Solid-State [...]

[From New US Security Head Advocates Partnership At Black Hat ]

Give credit to Russia, they have exercised power brilliantly, and the end game is near. While there are still media reports of sporadic fighting in Russia well after the cease-fire, the objectives of Russia have become clear. The politics will now decide whether the cease-fire holds.
Early in the conflict Putin and [...]

IBM’s entry into the personal computer business on this date in 1981 was a signal event in the history of business and technology. And since then? Oh, a few items of note. [From Do you remember where you were when this happened?]

So now that Georgia and Russia have officially challenged each other to fisticuffs, how do the two match up?

Georgian tanks w/reactive armor roll into South Ossetia

Georgia has roughly 30k troops serving in the Georgian Armed Forces, with 2,000 of [...]

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The Georgian embassy in the U.K. has accused forces within Russia of launching a coordinated cyberattack against Georgian Web sites, to coincide with military operations in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Speaking to ZDNet UK on Monday, a Georgian embassy spokesperson said that Web sites had been unavailable over [...]

ComputerWorld dispels myths about the history of modern day computers — or, more appropriately, the invention of the first microprocessor. Contrary to popular belief, ‘the [Intel] 8008 was not actually derived from the 4004 — they were separate projects.’ In fact, the 8008 concept didn’t originate from Intel (though they were eventually granted [...]

Bigger, better, faster, more are the driving themes behind the advanced network monitoring technology BBN Technologies is building for the military. The high-tech firm got a $4.4 million contract today from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop novel, scalable attack detection algorithms; a flexible and expandable architecture for implementing and [...]