Event: InfoWarCon 2014

Winn Schwartau Brings Back InfowarCon By: Anthony Kimery Homeland Security Today, 09/25/2013 A highly anticipated annual event for many years in the Washington, DC area, the InfowarCon conference is being resurrected by its founder, long-time cybersecurity authority, Winn Schwartau, who launched the event in 1994. Having recently re-acquired the successful conference after being encouraged to “notch …

99% Android Devices Totally Open — How Long Before Open Source Security and Code Level Integrity Are Appreciated?

Mobile security startup Bluebox Security has unearthed a vulnerability in Android’s security model which it says means that the nearly 900 million Android phones released in the past four years could be exploited, or some 99% of Android devices. The vulnerability has apparently been around since Android v1.6 (Donut), and was disclosed by the firm to …

Graphic: The Smart Grid — Is This Also the New Spy Grid?

Source Phi Beta Iota:  All of this stuff can be hacked.  Until the governments of the world get honest and real about code-level open source security, every single one of these is — to honor Ralph Nader’s earlier dictum, “unsafe at any speed.”  Nader’s fight was not about automobile safety, it was about corporate accountability …

Mini-Me: Obama Goes to Cyber-War, Not Realizing The Depth and Breadth of the Lies He Hears and Reads — Professional Interrogation of General Alexander and Others Recommended

Huh? White House: Obama adjusting use of cyber offense in response to threats EXTRACT: Gen. Keith Alexander, the top officer at U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, testified March 12 before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the potential for an attack against the nation’s electric grid and other essential systems is real …

Stephen E. Arnold: A Fresh Look at Big Data & Big Data (-) Human Factor (+) Transformation (+) RECAP

A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …

Marcus Aurelius: The Cyber-Dam Break — “Blame It On China” Goes Into High Gear

The Cyber-Dam Breaks Sensitive Army database of U.S. dams compromised; Chinese hackers suspected BY: Bill Gertz The Washington Free Beacon, May 1, 2013 U.S. intelligence agencies traced a recent cyber intrusion into a sensitive infrastructure database to the Chinese government or military cyber warriors, according to U.S. officials. The compromise of the U.S. Army Corps …