Marcus Aurelius: Richard Clarke Sounds Off on Cyber-Stuff

  Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack America’s longtime counterterrorism czar warns that the cyberwars have already begun—and that we might be losing By Ron Rosenbaum Smithsonian magazine, April 2012 EXTRACT: I had come to talk to him about what’s been done since the urgent alarm he’d sounded in his recent book, …

DefDog: Feds Hype Cyber-Threat, Seek DHS Mandates & Money

Feds Warn of Cyber Threats, Seek Expanded Authority for DHS By Kenneth Corbin March 28, 2012 — CIO — Federal cybersecurity officials on Wednesday gave lawmakers a sobering warning about the vulnerabilities of critical information technology systems across the public and private sectors, describing a laundry list of threats and the challenge of keeping up …

Berto Jongman: Australian Intelligence Buying Cyber-Bugs

Australian spies buying computer bugs: sources Cynthia Karena Sydney Morning Herald, 8 March 2012 Cyber criminals are not the only ones buying software flaws, say sources. The  Australian government is buying computer security weaknesses found by hackers before they are sold on the black market, as part of its defence strategy, claim those at the …

DefDog: $15 Billion for Cyber-Command, Zero for Actual Needs + Meta-RECAP

The myths behind the spending — disavowed by true subject-matter experts, manipulated by the military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) to spend more on vaporware…. RSA Conference: On the Subject of Cyber War and Industrial Espionage Talk of an impending ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is not an uncommon image evoked during discussions of cyber threats to the critical infrastructure …