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"Lost Jet’s Path Seen
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Showing posts with label cyber warfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyber warfare. Show all posts
Monday, March 17, 2014
Holy Space ALIENS BATMAN ! >> "Lost Jet’s Path Seen as Altered via Computer"
"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 … …
Sunday, March 21, 2010
"A Chinese student, Wang Jianwei, his professor, wrote an academic paper on the vulnerability of the American power grid to a computer attack."
March 20, 2010
“We usually say ‘attack’ so you can see what would happen,” he said. “My emphasis is on how you can protect this. My goal is to find a solution to make the network safer and better protected.” And independent American scientists who read his paper said it was true: Mr. Wang’s work was a conventional technical exercise that in no way could be used to take down a power grid.
The difference between Mr. Wang’s explanation and Mr. Wortzel’s conclusion is of more than academic interest. It shows that in an atmosphere already charged with hostility between the United States and China over cybersecurity issues, including large-scale attacks on computer networks, even a misunderstanding has the potential to escalate tension and set off an overreaction.
“Already people are interpreting this as demonstrating some kind of interest that China would have in disrupting the U.S. power grid,” said Nart Villeneuve, a researcher with the SecDev Group, an Ottawa-based cybersecurity research and consulting group. “Once you start interpreting every move that a country makes as hostile, it builds paranoia into the system.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/world/asia/21grid.html?src=me&ref=general
Monday, January 18, 2010
Companies Fight Endless War Against Computer Attacks
~~ 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 ~~
Companies Fight Endless War Against Computer Attacks
http://www.nytimes.com
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.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
U.S. and Russia Open Talks on Limits to War in Cyberspace
U.S. and Russia Open Talks on Limits to War in Cyberspace
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
Friday, July 31, 2009
Cyber attack seen as emerging threat for London 2012
~~ Cyber Wars are now a daily fact. Every single gov't , biz , org., or person must be continually on guard for cyber attack. We tend to forget how much of our national security , industrial base and electrical/energy grid, is all very venerable to gifted hackers of ill intent.
Cyber Security is among the foremost issues of our times. Good Jobs there for gifted computer geeks for millennium to come!
If I was in high school or college and looking for a good economically safe career,
Cyber Security Network Admin seems a good bet. ~~~~
Cyber attack seen as emerging threat for London 2012
Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:53pm BST
By Avril Ormsby
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE56K3TM20090721
LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic organisers are "very alive" to the threat of a cyber attack on the London 2012 Olympics, made more challenging because of its evolving nature, senior Home Office officials said on Tuesday.
Ticketing systems, the transport network and hotel bookings as well as security are among potential targets.
Olympic security officials are also planning for the possible diversion of aircraft to protect airspace around the venues from terrorist attacks, the officials said.
The greatest threat to security at the Games is international terrorism, the government's latest "Safety and Security Strategy" report said.
"There's no current evidence of a terrorist threat to 2012," one of the Home Office officials said.
"But if you look at precedents for sporting events, and to some degree about Olympic events, it would not be beyond the point of imagination to imagine a terrorist threat to 2012 nearer the time."
Sunday, June 14, 2009
"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
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
Saturday, May 30, 2009
The Government's Urgent Push into CyberWarfare.
~~ The sport of CyberWarfare is now becoming part of our economic recovery and the reorganization of the American commerce system. ~~ technopolitical ~~
"CYBERWAR: Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States."
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and JOHN MARKOFF
Published:
May 31, 2009
http://mobile.nytimes.com
MELBOURNE, Fla. - The government's urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts.
The exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession, is enabling the companies to attract top young talent that once would have gone to Silicon Valley. And the race to develop weapons that defend against, or initiate, computer attacks has given rise to thousands of "hacker soldiers" within the Pentagon who can blend the new capabilities into the nation's war planning.Nearly all of the largest military companies - including Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon - have major cyber contracts with the military and intelligence agencies.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=890810930FD395399FFDF08898666AEB.w5?a=3702
31&f=19
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"CYBERWAR: Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States."
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and JOHN MARKOFF
Published:
May 31, 2009
http://mobile.nytimes.com
MELBOURNE, Fla. - The government's urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts.
The exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession, is enabling the companies to attract top young talent that once would have gone to Silicon Valley. And the race to develop weapons that defend against, or initiate, computer attacks has given rise to thousands of "hacker soldiers" within the Pentagon who can blend the new capabilities into the nation's war planning.Nearly all of the largest military companies - including Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon - have major cyber contracts with the military and intelligence agencies.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=890810930FD395399FFDF08898666AEB.w5?a=3702
31&f=19
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
CYBERWAR: Cadets Trade the Trenches for Firewalls
~~ Warfare in the TechnoPolitical Age ~~
CYBERWAR: Cadets Trade the Trenches for Firewalls
WEST POINT, N.Y. — The Army forces were under attack. Communications were down, and the chain of command was broken.
Pacing a makeshift bunker whose entrance was camouflaged with netting, the young man in battle fatigues barked at his comrades: “They are flooding the e-mail server. Block it. I’ll take the heat for it.”
These are the war games at West Point, at least last month, when a team of cadets spent four days struggling around the clock to establish a computer network and keep it operating while hackers from the National Security Agency in Maryland tried to infiltrate it with methods that an enemy might use. The N.S.A. made the cadets’ task more difficult by planting viruses on some of the equipment, just as real-world hackers have done on millions of computers around the world.
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For old-fashioned detectives, the problem was always acquiring information. For the cybersleuth, hunting evidence in the data tangle of the Internet, the problem is different. “The holy grail is how can you distinguish between information which is garbage and information which is valuable?” said Rafal Rohozinski, aUniversity of Cambridge-trained social scientist involved in computer security issues. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/12cyber.html?ref=science
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
US needs 'digital warfare force'
~~ The Issues of Cyber Warfare has really moved
to the forefront the last couple of weeks.
It is a whole new Technopolitcal World. ~~
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.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Gates may recommend new 'Cyber Command' - Security
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/
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.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Spies 'infiltrate US power grid'
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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
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