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Holy Space ALIENS BATMAN ! 

"Lost Jet’s Path Seen 
as Altered 
via Computer" 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight.html?hp&_r=0 … …  

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              #SERIOUSstuffHERE 

                                  #WHOisINcharge? 

#NSA?

Data Security Center In Utah Targets Cyberspace

~~ As long as the USA stays a free Democracy , with a free press & etc., this plan does not alarm me. But maybe I am just getting old and jaded , and getting [too?] used to a growing Big Brother in the name of National Security ~`

"Data Security Center In Utah Targets Cyberspace"

By James Nelson

CAMP WILLIAMS, Utah Thu Jan 6, 2011 8:17pm EST

(Reuters) - A $1.5 billion dollar National Security Agency data center under construction in Utah will be an important step in dealing with rising volumes of information in cyberspace, officials said on Thursday. "It's a very important step in protecting the interests of our country. Banking, financial interests, Internet and national security. This is an important step forward in all of those," U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch told Reuters at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Data Center.

~~ The Internet was in its youth carefree fun. Now it is an angry adolescent that needs serious discipline and constant oversight , as Google just learned -- AGAIN !!-- in China.

We can only hope the Internet matures well-- and remains useful and open,

Click the labels on these topics for more from me on this ~~

January 18, 2010

Companies Fight Endless War Against Computer Attacks

http://www.nytimes.com

By STEVE LOHR

The recent computer attacks on the mighty Google left every corporate network in the world looking a little less safe.

Google’s confrontation with China — over government censorship in general and specific attacks on its systems — is an exceptional case, of course, extending to human rights and international politics as well as high-tech spying. But the intrusion into Google’s computers and related attacks from within China on some 30 other companies point to the rising sophistication of such assaults and the vulnerability of even the best defenses, security experts say.

“The Google case shines a bright light on what can be done in terms of spying and getting into corporate networks,” said Edward M. Stroz, a former high-tech crime agent with the F.B.I.who now heads a computer security investigation firm in New York.

Computer security is an ever-escalating competition between so-called black-hat attackers and white-hat defenders. One of the attackers’ main tools is malicious software, known as malware, which has steadily evolved in recent years. Malware was once mainly viruses and worms, digital pests that gummed up and sometimes damaged personal computers and networks.

Malware today, however, is likely to be more subtle and selective, nesting inside corporate networks. And it can be a tool for industrial espionage, transmitting digital copies of trade secrets, customer lists, future plans and contracts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/technology/internet/18defend.html?em

~~ About time !!

Actual Cyber Warfare would have serious consequences ~~

December 13, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/science/13cyber.html?_r=1&hp

U.S. and Russia Open Talks on Limits to War in Cyberspace

By JOHN MARKOFF and ANDREW E. KRAMER

The United States has begun talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace.

American and Russian officials have different interpretations of the talks so far, but the mere fact that the United States is participating represents a significant policy shift after years of rejecting Russia’s overtures. Officials familiar with the talks said the Obama administration realized that more nations were developing cyberweapons and that a new approach was needed to blunt an international arms race.

In the last two years, Internet-based attacks on government and corporate computer systems have multiplied to thousands a day. Hackers, usually never identified, have compromised Pentagon computers, stolen industrial secrets and temporarily jammed government and corporate Web sites. President Obama ordered a review of the nation’s Internet security in February and is preparing to name an official to coordinate national policy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/science/13cyber.html?_r=1&hp

"CYBERWAR Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan"

~ We are at war.

A Government run Cyber Defense is needed.

The internet is a public forum that I choose to enter.

Am I willing to surrender some my cyber rights to enter cyberspace -- to surrender my internet privacy in the name of American national self defense?

I know for me I already personally-- but not politically-- censor myself online. Unlike others who really do completely open their life to the internet, I post almost nothing about my private life , or at least nothing shocking.

Nor do I visit any websites that I would want to later deny doing so.

For me there would be very little if any real impact on my personal internet use, in light of the proposed American Government measures of Cyber Defense.

I already guard my privacy online and do not visit sites of illicit or illegal activity.

Ido also do google myself often to find out what others could learn about me with a quick internet search. (With a little work one can mostly control their online presence.)

Now, I am still very much a civil libertarian when it comes to both private and mutually consenting personal interactions. I fully believe that the government has no right to regulate or monitor our private lives.

But again , I CHOOSE to go onto the Internet, with the understanding that it may be monitored and my online actions and interactions might be recorded by some government snoop, a snoop whose job it is to look for threats of violence against man or machine. But it is not his charge to monitor normal free speech, association, and/or political organizing. Those activities are fully protected rights in the USA.

My life online is not that exciting. And again purposely so. Privacy must be guarded by ones self, as only you can protect your own privacy. So I am careful what I post and write about myself on my various blogs.

When you drive the roads in your car there are traffic cops. On the internet too there does need to be a cyberpolice and I am willing to accept Government monitoring of the Internert in the name of Cyber National Security, as I for one do not see how it would change my techno cyber political behaviors in any way.

The First amendment of the US Constitution fully protects all my cyber activities. I have full free speech and free press rights here at TechnoPolitical. I post what I think and believe very freely and without constraint.

If I want or need Privacy I can turn the Computer Off.

We are at war. There are lunatics of all stripes out there who use the internet as a tool to further violence and terrorism. There has to be Government Cyber Security in the USA. The stakes are just too high.

Now below this post, there is another recent post about China's cyber crackdown attempt.

This is a different situation than the USA's, as China is working to suppress nonviolent speech and civil dissent. For there is no right to free speech and free association in China and the Chinese Government is quite totalitarian in its Electronic-Governance of Cyber Space.

The USA however is not looking suppress nonviolent speech and association, but to protect its citizens from Terrorism both domestic and foreign. Big difference.
~~
Posted from blackberry by technopolitical via AT&T.~~





"CYBERWAR Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan"


By THOM SHANKER and DAVID E. SANGER



Published: June 13, 2009

mobile.nytimes.com



"WASHINGTON - A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations against adversaries' computer networks.





President Obama has said that the new cyberdefense strategy he unveiled last month will provide protections for personal privacy and civil liberties.




But senior Pentagon and military officials say that Mr. Obama's assurances may be challenging to guarantee in practice, particularly in trying to monitor the thousands of daily attacks on security systems in the United States that have set off a race to develop better cyberweapons."

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=376300&f=21

~~~ The Internet is a very interesting place. Just be careful.~~~~

Most Attacks Come from Legit but Hijacked Sites

Web attacks are routinely hosted by actual sites infected and acting as zombies, security firm warns.

John E. Dunn, Techworld.com

Sunday, May 17, 2009 01:10 PM PDT
http://www.pcworld.com/article/165014/attacks_come_from_legit_hijacked_sites.html?tk=rss_news

Artwork: Diego Aguirre

The number of legitimate Websites being hacked to host malware has hit startling highs in recent days, new figures from MessageLabs have revealed.

Data taken from the days between May 4 and 8 showed that 84.6 percent of Websites blocked by the company for hosting malicious content were 'well-established' domains that have been around for a year or more.

During the same period, 10.2 percent of blocked domains were less than a year old and only 3.1 percent were less than a week old.

At first glance this, this runs counter to the assumption that malicious Websites more commonly exist for only days or hours in some cases, the better to avoid detection and filtering. This is termed "fast-fluxing," cycling websites through a maze of bogus sub-domains.

However, according to MessageLabs, the likely explanation is that a move to genuine domains means that the fast-fluxing has now migrated to use a different part of the domain tree.

"The bad guys will compromise the DNS and add sub-domains," said MessageLabs' Paul Wood. The recent figure represented a high mark, admitted Wood, but still represented a gathering storm.

"People need to be extra vigilant and understand that even sites they know and trust can be compromised through attacks such as SQL injection attacks, while businesses need to ensure they take the necessary precautions to block all the latest malicious sites," said Wood.

"With the ever advancing world of cybercrime, nothing can be taken at face value."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/165014/attacks_come_from_legit_hijacked_sites.html?tk=rss_news

~~ These Cyber - Defense  issues are  daily news  in the "papers" now.    

Serious stuff .  ~~ 

Pentagon girds for cyber warfare

Attacks from well-funded nations, terror groups are biggest threats

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30630807/

By Lolita C. Baldor

updated 8:38 p.m. ET, Thurs., May 7, 2009

WASHINGTON - Cyber espionage and attacks from well-funded nations or terror groups are the biggest threats to the military's computer networks, a top officer said Thursday.

Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, who heads U.S. Strategic Command, said he worries that foes will learn to disable or distort battlefield communications. Chilton told reporters that even as the Pentagon improves its network defenses against hackers, he needs more people, training and resources to hone offensive cyber war capacity.

Zombie computers 'on the rise'

~~ Don't let you computer become a ZOMBIE !!!!
Use care online, update your anti-virus and spam-ware regularly.
Do not visit stupid websites that load these viruses. ~~~~

Zombie computers 'on the rise'

By Maggie Shiels
Technology Reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8032886.stm
Page last updated at 09:03 GMT, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 10:03 UK

Twelve million computers have been hijacked by cyber-criminals and detected by security vendor McAfree since January, the firm has said.

It reports there has been a 50% increase in the number of detected so-called "zombie" computers since 2008.

The true number of newly-hijacked PCs is likely to be higher than those detected by McAfee alone.

The figures come as a report from Deloitte said a global approach to cyber-security is needed.

"Doing nothing is not an option," said Deloitte's Greg Pellegrino.

~~ With the issues of Cyber Security at the forefront now
, do not count on the USA giving in so easily here ~~

EU calls on Obama to give up Internet oversight

Major decisions on Internet made solely by a California-based nonprofit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30559082/

updated 10:43 a.m. ET, Mon., May 4, 2009

BRUSSELS - A senior European Union official called on President Barack Obama to give up United States' oversight of the Internet.

Major decisions on how the Internet is run are made solely by the California-based nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — which is overseen by the U.S. Commerce Department under an agreement that expires September 30.

~~ The Issues of Cyber Warfare has really moved
to the forefront the last couple of weeks.
It is a whole new Technopolitcal World. ~~

US needs 'digital warfare force'

The US has set up specialised detachments dealing with IT problems

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8033440.stm

The head of America's National Security Agency says that America needs to build a digital warfare force for the future, according to reports.

Lt Gen Keith Alexander, who also heads the Pentagon's new Cyber Command, outlined his views in a report for the House Armed Services subcommittee.

Congress Considers Limits on Deep-Packet Inspections

~` Now I am for the most a personal civil libertarian. 

But i am not a fanatic, and I accept that in public , using public resources, I have to follow rules. 

Speed Limits and seat belts on the roads. 

 No Smoking in the bar.

The Internet is a public space. I choose to go there.  On the Internet , there is crime , fraud,  and predators (both financial and personal.)

There has to be security.  A Cyber Police.  

So while I am not fond of my ISP or my Gov't being able to track my every move online, I accept it. 

 However I live in a free democracy and i can post anything I want here and write freely against any Gov't or

 Biz  when  I feel so motivated to do so.

 

If  I lived in Tibet I might feel different here.

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Congress Considers Limits on Deep-Packet Inspections
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=66185&full_skip=1
By Frederick Lane
April 24, 2009 2:19PM
The House Energy and Commerce Internet subcommittee is looking into Internet privacy issues and deep packet inspection by Internet service providers. Chairman Rick Boucher called for greater privacy protection. An industry advocate actually called inspections pro-consumer. Boucher called the potential of ISP snooping "frightening."

At a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Internet subcommittee Thursday, Congress began the tricky business of trying to understand Internet privacy issues and launched another round of debates about legislation regulating the collection and handling of personal data online.

The specific focus of the subcommittee's hearing was the practice of deep packet inspection (DPI), a data-handling technique that allows Internet service providers and communication companies to look at the content of all traffic flowing through their servers.

ISPs argue that DPI is a valuable tool because it enables them to block illegal content flowing across the Internet, including copyrighted materials and contraband such as child pornography. One industry advocate -- National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Kyle McSlarrow -- went so far as to argue that DPI is actually a pro-consumer technology, enabling ISPs to better filter viruses and other threatening content.

DPI gained notoriety last year when it was revealed that Comcast used the technique to throttle the flow of BitTorrent data across its networks. Other ISPs have suggested using DPI as a tool to prioritize traffic (perhaps based on a sliding fee scale), a technique that engineers argue is simply good network management.

Strong Privacy Concerns

But many worry that DPI can have profound privacy implications, since it enables ISPs to examine the content of all traffic, not merely that which is illegal or potentially damaging.

"DPI poses unique risks to individual privacy," said Leslie Harris, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology. "Moreover, once the technology is acquired for a legitimate purpose such as responding to network threats, it will be hard to draw the line at ever more intrusive uses as third parties approach the network operators with proposals to monetize Internet traffic and the government makes greater demands."

Gates may recommend new 'Cyber Command' - Security

Cyber Warfare

is a very hot issue this week, and it has become a fact of gobal intrique.

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NBC News and news services

updated 11:48 p.m. ET, Tues., April 21, 2009
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30319722/deck/blackberry/

While no final decisions have been made, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to recommend the creation of a new military command to face the growing threat from cyber warfare, a senior U.S. official told NBC News on Tuesday.

In the pursuit of cybercrooks, the FBI is casting itself as an ethical hacker.

I have mixed feelings here. While I want  the FBI to catch crooks in cyberspace , the civil libertarian in me is a little spooked here. 

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Is the FBI Behind Spyware?

In the pursuit of cybercrooks, the FBI is casting itself as an ethical hacker.

Scott Bradner, Network World

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 06:55 PM PDT

More details are emerging about how the FBI engages in hacking and the planting of spyware.

This story goes back to at least 2001 when Bob Sullivan of MSNBC and Ted Birdis of AP broke the story of Magic Lantern. At the time the FBI did not want to say much, but now there is real information that clears up some things and reinforces real concerns over this approach.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/163590/is_fbi_behind_spyware.html?tk=rss_news

Hackers Steal Secrets Of US Strike Fighter

Cyber Spying as we see above is a serious concern of our Technopolitical Age.  As always in human history , all technology finds its war into warfare and spying.   

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3:02pm UK, Tuesday April 21, 2009

Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's £200bn Joint Strike Fighter project and copied information about its design and electronics systems.

The F-35 Lightning II fighter

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Computer-hackers-target-US-Pentagon-Joint-Strike-Fighter-project/Article/200904315266157?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15266157_Computer_hackers_target_US_Pentagon_Joint_Strike_Fighter_project

:: For more on this story click here to go to the Wall Street Journal.

Internet worm set to change tactics April 1 Outbreak shows importance of keeping current with security updates

~~~This thing was more scare than action. ~~~

MSNBC.com

Internet worm set to change tactics April 1

Outbreak shows importance of keeping current with security updates

By Jordan Robertson

The Associated Press

updated 10:42 a.m. ET, Mon., March. 30, 2009

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29956746/

SAN FRANCISCO - The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday — April Fools' Day.

Someone whose machine is infected might have to reinstall the operating system.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29956746/

MSN Privacy . Legal

© 2009 MSNBC.com

Senate Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity

~~ This Issue really does not get
the attention it deserves ---YET !! ~
~
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Senate Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity

http://twp.com/news.jsp?key=369351&rc=tech

By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus Updated: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 Page 1 of 2 Read Full Article Key lawmakers are pushing to dramatically escalate U.S. defenses against cyberattacks, crafting proposals that would empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time. The proposals, in Senate legislation that could be introduced as early as today, would broaden the focus of the government's cybersecurity efforts to include not only military networks but also private systems that control essentials such as electricity and water distribution. At the same time, the bill would add regulatory teeth to ensure industry compliance with the rules, congressional officials familiar with the plan said yesterday. Addressing what intelligence officials describe as a gaping vulnerability, the legislation also calls for the appointment of a White House cybersecurity "czar" with unprecedented authority to shut down computer networks, including private ones, if a cyberattack is underway, the officials said. How industry groups will respond is unclear. Jim Dempsey, vice president for public policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, which represents private companies and civil liberties advocates, said that mandatory standards have long been the "third rail of cybersecurity policy." Dempsey said regulation could also stifle creativity by forcing companies to adopt a uniform approach. The legislation, co-sponsored by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), was drafted with White House input. Although the White House indicated it supported some key concepts of the bill, there has been no official endorsement.

Control of Cybersecurity Becomes Divisive Issue

~~ "Control of Cybersecurity"
was Not a big Issue during the 2008 elections.
It is now .
Life is full of surprises.
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Control of Cybersecurity Becomes Divisive Issue
Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=355988&f=77

By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU

Published: April 17, 2009

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency has been campaigning to lead the government's rapidly growing cybersecurity programs, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns among some officials who fear that the move could give the spy agency too much control over government computer networks.

The Obama administration is expected to complete an internal cybersecurity review on Friday and may publicly announce its new computer-security strategy as early as next week, White House officials said Thursday. That plan will determine the scope of cybersecurity efforts throughout the federal government, they said, as well as which agencies will take leading roles in protecting the government's computer systems.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=355988&f=77

Spies 'infiltrate US power grid'

BUY BATTERIES !!!!
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Spies 'infiltrate US power grid'
9 Apr 2009 3:30 BST

By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

The US government has admitted the nation's power grid is vulnerable to cyber attack, following reports it has been infiltrated by foreign spies.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) newspaper reported that Chinese and Russian spies were behind this "pervasive" breach.

It said software had been left behind that could shut down the electric grid.

BBC © 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_news/technology/799/79909/story7990997.shtml