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Chinese government attacking American journalism?
What a week: disclosure of compromises at the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. A Java update released on a Friday evening 18 days early due to active exploitation. Twitter...
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Senator John Kerry, now the nominee for Secretary of State, had some attention-getting statements about ‘hackers’. According to the report, he compared the threat of ‘foreign hackers’ to “modern-day,...
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Cyberwords on cyberwar
Few things frustrate me as much as muddled thinking, depending on logical fallacies, or misinterpreting data. To my (long) list of examples of some of these things, I can add Dennis Fisher‘s post U.S....
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We are all cyber warriors now
Two recent articles have me thinking about the wide disparity of what people mean with the term “cyberwar”. I don’t like this term and don’t usually consider myself as working in or around cyberwar, as...
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Uninformed thoughts on Iran as a cyber threat
Understanding the reality of a threat matters. Last week, a number of organizations reported that Iranian oil infrastructure had gone offline in response to malware of some sort. The Iranian Oil...
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Semantic change: APT, Cyberwar, and Hacking
“It’s just semantics!” I hate that phrase. Words mean things – and “semantics” is the study of those meanings. Most words can push emotional buttons for us, even when we really just use different words...
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Analysis of DNI annual Worldwide Threat Assessment
The US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, provided his annual Worldwide Threat Assessment to the Senate yesterday (followed by a classified session with, we can surmise, greater detail)....
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Third world cyberalliances
NB: Due to the nature of the story, some of the links below go to Spanish-language articles. If you don’t read Spanish, you may wish to use Google Translate. I haven’t reviewed any translation so I...
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Linkage
Some of these links are even more awesome than this photo.Here are some articles worth reading, but which I didn’t get to discuss in more detail due to time constraints. Hopefully I’ll get around to...
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Richard Clarke: The Year of the Hack
NB: These are my notes of Richard Clarke‘s talk at MIRcon 2011 and don’t necessarily represent my own views. People are beginning to call this the “Year of the Hack”. No need to go into the details,...
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