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NSA To Monitor Critical Computer Networks Looking For Imperfect Citizens

(IEEE Spectrum) By: Robert Charette // Thu, July 08, 2010 There is a story in the Wall Street Journal about a new, $100+ million, classified program being run out of the National Security Agency (NSA) that will monitor critical commercial and government infrastructure systems such as electricity grids, nuclear power plants, air traffic control systems and the …

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Profiling Hackers (or Attackers?)…Further Blurring of lines Between Crime & Hacking

The project aims to improve the response to ICT crime and the transnational organised crime groups that may be involved in it, by outlining the criminal profiles of the different types of hackers, with particular emphasis on their possible involvement in transnational organised crime activities and cyber-terrorism. Through a better understanding of hackers, HPP will …

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Who’s Who in Earth Intelligence: Stuart Umpleby

Stuart Anspach Umpleby (born March 5, 1944) is an American cybernetician and a professor in the Department of Management and Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business at the George Washington University. He is a past president of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC). In 2007 Stuart …

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Review: SnowCrash

WARNING: This is the GERMAN language edition. For English see Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book). I received this book as a gift at one of the Silicon Valley Hackers/THINK Conference where I was elected to membership in 1992 or so, and it remains for me the first window into the cyber-chaos that results when CIA …

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