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The early part of the week was a little slower than normal with not a lot of traffic being generated. News reports slowed substantially until more information started to be released on the DigiNotar hack details became more obvious. As the week progresses details included more information on specific countries and industries that appear to [...]

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Relatively little going on this week other than stories being cleaned up from previous weeks. No hacker conferences going on, and no major conflagrations to report. There are some squeaky articles about planned hacktivism or “major” attacks through cyber means on 9/11. Though very little detailed and that would be a complete change in the [...]

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Leading into the week (over the weekend) there was a bit of a furor over the disclosure of a hacking tool that had an American university address listed. When supposedly the Chinese government yanked the video the hysteria went up. If the Chinese government was responsible it shows a distinct lack of understanding how strategic [...]

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The week opened with more information on the Korean attacks. It seems the number of people may have been larger than some earlier reports. Of course, this is actually more about a breach than it is about an actual attack. A breach being the exposure of information and or information assets and an attack being [...]

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With another week of highly dramatic over blown talk in the media about how hackers declared war on BART you’d think the world was coming to an end. Since BART wasn’t brought to it’s knees nor was there a dramatic loss of life, and since most of the adversarial agents in cyberspace aren’t nation states [...]

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Much in the same way as I’ve discussed the principle of science fiction informing us about information assurance and security it appears a researcher at DefCon talked along a similar thread. I do think rather than Die Hard a better analogy is what we find in Battlestar Galactica.  There are lots of stories this week [...]

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The week opened up with more discussion about computer incursions in South Korea. It was also interesting to see another despot led country to be tied to cyber attacks. The thread of aligning countries like Myanmar to cyber attacks is very much a similar narrative stream to the terrorism thread of late 2001 and early [...]

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 This week seemed to have some interesting themes. I do think it is interesting that the one theme that has been missing is on how the federal government looming default has not been considered by the pundits as a cyber incident. It should be interesting to see how the possible default by the federal government [...]

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 The week started pretty much as we would expect with more discussion of the 24k files lost by the Department of Defense as disclosed by the Deputy Secretary Defense William Lynn in the previous week. The loss of classified information is not necessarily an act of war though and the rhetoric spinning up is interesting [...]

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The week started out kind of interesting with more information about the Department of Energy labs that had to be shut down. Though the hysteria surrounding the attack continues to refer to the “sophisticated” nature of the “cyber attack” it is likely going to be much less than “sophisticated” in nature. There are several articles [...]

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Coming out of the weekend the big news was the attacks on the various department of energy laboratory environments. At first blush it appeared and was reported as a significant advanced persistent threat event. Now I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I am absolutely sure a whole bunch of pundits will explain it [...]

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The silliness of what has become a near catastrophic destruction of the term war has continued through out the weekend of June 25th/26th. The term cyber warfare was tossed around with abandon by the main stream media. The possible disbandment of LulzSec was an interesting if not unexpected twist. They media has started to be [...]

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The week started off with a clean up of the previous weeks dustbin news. Not an unusual amount to hit on Monday, but the breadth was interesting. The continued mixing of cyber security issues with main stream media presentations of LulzSec and Anonymous as cyber warfare is nearly unabated. The experts reporting on these events [...]

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It appears that national governments have started rounding up hackers for prosecution. This is an interesting development but not unexpected. It will be interesting to see what kind of evidence is used. It is not lost upon the aware observer that a large number of these attacks are social justice driven and politically motivated cyber [...]

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A busy weekend opened on a busy week. It looks like the rhetoric continues to heat up between China and the United States as regards cyber warfare. The thread of the latest Google hacks has appeared to center around White House staffers and experts on China being targeted. This would if true appear to be [...]

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