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The U.S. NSA and military Cyber Command are both located at Fort Meade outside Washington DC

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/10/2012 6:28 AM | Add Comment

“Cyberthreats pose a critical national and economic security concern,” he said in testimony.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/9/2012 6:53 AM | Add Comment

The international hackers group known as Anonymous turned the tables on the F.B.I. by listening in on a conference call

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/4/2012 8:23 AM | Add Comment

While today's report implies 98 new units instead of 122, it also suggests V-22 will survive for this second production run, a far better outcome than outright termination.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/3/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Anticipating this, the State Department began developing its own drone operations.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:37 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Panetta has repeatedly stated that he will preserve funding for Special Operations forces, cyberwarfare and intelligence

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/26/2012 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Recently, two research teams — one at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and the other at the University of Wisconsin, Madison — announced that they had produced a form of H5N1

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/20/2012 8:19 PM | Add Comment

The breaches at Amazon’s sites come after several other recent cyberattacks that, taken together, threaten to shake consumer confidence on the Web.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/17/2012 7:11 PM | Add Comment

Just a little Orwellian... Critics raise the alarm over U.S. police drone

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/14/2012 7:43 AM | Add Comment

One of the most notable uses of the Predator and Reaper has been in the counterterrorism role, both as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/12/2012 11:37 PM | Add Comment

Pakistan, with a security score of 41 and a nuclear complex that is undergoing rapid growth, was faulted for poor transportation security, political instability and the presence of terrorist groups

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/12/2012 6:29 AM | Add Comment

“Source code is a company’s crown jewels. Most companies put lots of locks and chains around it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/6/2012 8:05 PM | Add Comment

“Even at a trillion dollars, this is a shallower build-down than any of the last three we’ve done. It would still be the world’s most dominant military. We would be in an arms race with ourselves.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/3/2012 7:16 AM | Add Comment

Stuxnet was first discovered in June 2010 when it attacked and damaged software and equipment used in Iranian nuclear facilities

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/2/2012 9:02 AM | Add Comment

The bill authorizes $662 billion in military spending through 2012.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/1/2012 6:53 AM | Add Comment

Also according to their postings, the breach appears to have been conducted in retaliation for the arrest and imprisonment of Pfc. Bradley Manning

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/26/2011 9:08 AM | Add Comment

BIG BUSINESS: "A Pentagon public relations program that sought to transform high-profile military analysts into “surrogates” and “message force multipliers” for the Bush administration complied with Defense Department regulations and directives."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/25/2011 9:02 AM | Add Comment

“Companies don’t want to talk about cyber attacks,” Mr. Ackerman says. “All of a sudden, breaches are now going to be more visible and people are going to have to start estimating their costs.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/24/2011 9:26 AM | Add Comment

The drone shown on Iran television appeared to be in good condition, which would seem to be inconsistent with an uncontrolled landing

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/8/2011 7:50 PM | Add Comment

through 2030, the team recommended that the federal agency should work with industry and have the appropriate regulatory authority to enhance cybersecurity preparedness

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/6/2011 7:20 PM | Add Comment

Using Palantir technology, the FBI can now instantly compile thorough dossiers on U.S. citizens, tying together surveillance video outside a drugstore with credit-card transactions, cell-phone call records, e-mails, airplane travel records, and Web search

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/25/2011 8:36 AM | Add Comment

“Russia’s intelligence services are conducting a range of activities to collect economic information and technology from U.S. targets.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/4/2011 7:31 AM | Add Comment

“They’re the only treaty member of the NPT,” he said, referring to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, “that cannot convince the International Atomic Energy Agency that their program is peaceful."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/4/2011 7:30 AM | Add Comment

“The purpose of the attacks appears to be industrial espionage, collecting intellectual property for competitive advantage,” Symantec said

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/1/2011 6:20 PM | Add Comment

“This is a bit of a surprise,” said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee and a leader of the Top500 project, a list of the world’s fastest computers.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/29/2011 8:40 AM | Add Comment

Often the attacks are found to have come from Chinese Internet-protocol, or IP, addresses.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/27/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

China has strongly denied having a hand in the earlier attacks.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/26/2011 5:54 AM | Add Comment

“In a negotiation, take what you can get. And then come back for more.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/24/2011 5:55 AM | Add Comment

“These cybercapabilities are still like the Ferrari that you keep in the garage and only take out for the big race and not just for a run around town, unless nothing else can get you there.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/17/2011 6:22 PM | Add Comment

"Anonymous has been primarily using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/5/2011 8:25 AM | Add Comment

“We have a duty to protect people,” he added, “and that’s always balanced with human rights, online or offline. It’s no different now.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/26/2011 5:29 AM | Add Comment

"Yale's King likens stock volatility to a physical force, and wonders if the energy bottled up by a volatility halt won't find other unpleasant ways to dissipate."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/13/2011 8:27 AM | Add Comment

“It was a wake-up call for the entire security industry,” Mr. Hoglund said. “It probably needed to happen. I wish I didn’t have to be the sacrificial lamb.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/5/2011 5:31 AM | Add Comment

“A $100 million hit on a bank or a series of banks,” Whitehouse said. “That’s a pretty big bank robbery. And it doesn’t even make the press. It just trickles through in FBI tip sheets.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/4/2011 6:29 PM | Add Comment

“The Chinese government opposes hacking in all its manifestations.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/3/2011 6:55 PM | Add Comment

"Operation Shady RAT"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/3/2011 6:47 PM | Add Comment

"Technology companies should be barred from tailoring goods to a repressive end."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/25/2011 6:19 AM | Add Comment

"Many are still haunted by the 1993 'Black Hawk Down' debacle, in which 18 elite American troops were killed in Mogadishu..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/2/2011 5:46 AM | Add Comment

"Lulz Security has been pursued by government agencies around the world, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/26/2011 8:42 AM | Add Comment

“It won’t matter where you are in the world or who you are in the world, you’re going to be able to authenticate everyone and everything.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/25/2011 6:21 AM | Add Comment

"LulzSec’s exploits have riled others in the hacker world who object to its activities, particularly exposure of personal information of innocent Internet users."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/24/2011 5:16 AM | Add Comment

“For us, this is really a basic right,” said Mr. Braakhuis, a member of the GreenLeft party. “We consider network neutrality to be as important as freedom of the press, freedom of speech.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/23/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

"The future world of drones is here inside the Air Force headquarters at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., where hundreds of flat-screen TVs hang from industrial metal skeletons in a cavernous room, a scene vaguely reminiscent of a rave club."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/20/2011 5:17 AM | Add Comment

"Nearly everyone agrees that a mix of defenses is vital, and that even so, some hackers will still slip through."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/18/2011 5:35 AM | Add Comment

"By May 24, bank officials concluded that the data thieves had captured the names, account numbers, and e-mail addresses of about 360,000 customers."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/16/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

"The statute makes it very clear: you can’t spy on Americans."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/16/2011 5:10 AM | Add Comment

"But wherever the public goes, the government follows."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/16/2011 5:08 AM | Add Comment

"The clandestine American operations in Yemen are currently being run by the military’s Joint Special Operations Command, with the C.I.A.’s assistance and with the approval of Yemen’s fragile authoritarian government."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/15/2011 5:51 AM | Add Comment

"Underscoring the multinational nature of these rings, American law-enforcement agencies have also been putting more investigators overseas. "

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/14/2011 5:46 AM | Add Comment

"Anonymous, a loose collective that has attacked many Web sites including those of Amazon and MasterCard, says the system will make it possible to keep records of people’s online activity."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/14/2011 5:43 AM | Add Comment

"The manual clarifies the definition of who qualifies for extra protection as a legitimate member of the news media in the Internet era: prominent bloggers would count, but not people who have low-profile blogs."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/13/2011 6:27 AM | Add Comment

"The State Department, for example, is financing the creation of stealth wireless networks that would enable activists to communicate outside the reach of governments in countries like Iran, Syria and Libya..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/12/2011 7:26 AM | Add Comment

"After that attack, the World Bank briefly shut down external access to its most sensitive systems..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/12/2011 7:10 AM | Add Comment

"They were expected to be charged with forming an illegal association to attack public and corporate Web sites, a charge that carries a potential sentence of up to three years in prison."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/11/2011 1:52 AM | Add Comment

“We’re not dealing with 14-year-old hacker kids.” “We’re talking about 21st-century bank robbers — sophisticated, organized criminal gangs, located mostly in Eastern Europe and the U.S.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/10/2011 5:13 AM | Add Comment

“No public servant should face 35 years in prison for telling the truth.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/10/2011 5:11 AM | Add Comment

"The biggest beneficiary of Google’s losses appeared to be Baidu, a Chinese Internet portal."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/7/2011 5:23 AM | Add Comment

"Google tracked the attack to Jinan, China, which is the home to a Chinese military regional command center."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/4/2011 8:33 AM | Add Comment

"At the heart of the problem, experts say, is that technology has leapt far ahead of the policy debate."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/2/2011 8:45 PM | Add Comment

"This year, the Chinese government has stepped up its controls over the Internet within the country, with increased scrutiny of news and blog sites..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/2/2011 5:52 AM | Add Comment

“How do we know when it’s a hacker and when it’s the People’s Liberation Army?”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/1/2011 5:45 AM | Add Comment

“This is what repressive governments do,” he said. “This is what people who don’t want information out in the world do — they try to shut the presses.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/1/2011 5:44 AM | Add Comment

"'If intruders get the key, the seed that enables one-time passwords to be generated,' then they may have the capability to break into networks that depend on such systems to authenticate users..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2011 10:33 AM | Add Comment

“We don’t know what they went after at Lockheed,” Mr. Lewis said... “One possibility is that it’s a state actor, but it could also be criminals who are trying to exploit the company’s customers.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/28/2011 7:30 AM | Add Comment

"It was not immediately clear what kind of data, if any, was stolen by the hackers."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2011 6:36 PM | Add Comment

“It’s astonishing how this survey demonstrates that IT departments have easier access to sensitive information than CEOs,” said Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2011 10:00 PM | Add Comment

"Because some 15% of the U.S. economy is based on financial services and the markets, they should be protected on the basis of national security, he asserts."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2011 6:50 AM | Add Comment

"Confirmed attendees include Eric E. Schmidt of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeffrey P. Bezos of Amazon and Rupert Murdoch of News Corp."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2011 6:42 AM | Add Comment

"The Obama administration asked Congress to renew the provisions, while taking a coy stance about whether any particular changes were a good idea."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2011 5:43 AM | Add Comment

"Because reporters often retain unauthorized defense documents, Drake’s conviction would establish a legal precedent making it possible to prosecute journalists as spies."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/19/2011 7:16 PM | Add Comment

"The strategy calls for officials from the State Department, the Pentagon, the Justice Department, the Commerce Department and the Department of Homeland Security to work with their counterparts around the world..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/17/2011 5:57 AM | Add Comment

"Last month’s incursion was 'very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack,' Sony has said."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/16/2011 7:17 PM

"Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)’s Web Services cloud-computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp. (SNE)’s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/15/2011 6:02 AM | Add Comment

"Mr. Prince’s new company, Reflex Responses, obtained another multimillion-dollar contract to protect a string of planned nuclear power plants and to provide cybersecurity."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/15/2011 5:50 AM | Add Comment

"Privacy groups said that the administration’s proposals did not appear to put in place strict enough controls to protect personal information against potential government surveillance."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/13/2011 5:14 AM | Add Comment

“Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and impact of the cyber attack we’ve all experienced and on fixing it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/8/2011 8:14 AM

"The compromised debit account information included customer names, bank account numbers and account names, Sony has said."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/5/2011 5:41 AM

The State Internet Information Office: "Among many other duties, the agency will direct “online content management;” supervise online gaming, video and publications; promote major news Web sites; and oversee online government propaganda."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/5/2011 5:35 AM | Add Comment

“They are keeping location data and the statement is a little misleading on that point.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:25 PM | Add Comment

“The fact that two separate networks are involved in this security breach suggests Sony discovered a major underlying problem that already existed.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:22 PM | Add Comment

"The electronics conglomerate is the latest Japanese company to come under fire for not disclosing bad news quickly."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 9:00 PM | Add Comment

"Some security specialists said they believed Apple was not tracking people, but rather collecting data to update its location databases, since Wi-Fi networks can quickly come and go."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 6:45 AM | Add Comment

"Corporate cloud computing is expected to grow rapidly, by more than 25 percent a year, to $55.5 billion by 2014, IDC estimates."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 6:17 AM | Add Comment

"Our industrial-control systems are very, very vulnerable to attack and the security we have installed today is insufficient to protect us," Baker said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 6:12 AM | Add Comment

Your Apple Product is STALKING You!!! "A hidden file on the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 3G has been found to store location information."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 7:20 PM | Add Comment

"The attacks coming out of China are not only continuing, they are accelerating."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/14/2011 7:18 PM | Add Comment

The ACLU calls this policy "a frightening and illegal invasion of privacy" and I can't say that I disagree.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/21/2011 2:24 PM | Add Comment

"For all the Internet’s vaunted connectivity, the Egyptian government commanded powerful instruments of control: it owns the pipelines that carry information across the country and out into the world."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/15/2011 8:17 PM | Add Comment

"There are other contradictions in the State Department’s agenda: it champions the free flow of information, except when it is in secret cables made public by WikiLeaks..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/15/2011 6:56 AM | Add Comment

"A spokesperson for YouTube declined to comment on the lifting of the ban, but pointed to Google’s Transparency report, which shows a jump in traffic to YouTube.com from Syria."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/10/2011 8:17 AM | Add Comment

"... Mr. Mubarak fired his cabinet and appointed Omar Suleiman, his right-hand man and the country’s intelligence chief, as vice president."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2011 9:12 AM | Add Comment

"Data is among the most potent weapons of the 21st century."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/17/2011 7:26 PM | Add Comment

“To check out the worm, you have to know the machines,” said an American expert on nuclear intelligence. “The reason the worm has been effective is that the Israelis tried it out.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/15/2011 10:28 PM | Add Comment

"Still, Internet companies chafe at what they say is the weaker protection under the law afforded online data."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/10/2011 8:25 AM | Add Comment

“I have so many friends in the U.S., and there are so many things that I respect about it. This is not how America wants to present itself to the world.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/9/2011 8:47 AM | Add Comment

"Twitter has declined comment on the claim, saying only that its policy is to notify its users, where possible, of government requests for information."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/8/2011 10:15 AM | Add Comment

"The future of law enforcement, national security and military operations will most likely rely on observant machines."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/2/2011 10:00 AM | Add Comment

"We plan to create a so-called 'National Cyber-Defense Center' in 2011."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/29/2010 8:02 PM | Add Comment

“They are so realistic that every time we show them, people try to grab them.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/5/2010 8:44 AM | Add Comment

"Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/3/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

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