Marcus Aurelius: Mike Hayden Says Obama’s Military Comments Not ‘Presidential’

Hayden: Obama’s Military Comments Not ‘Presidential’ President Obama’s response to Mitt Romney comments on the size of the U.S. Navy during Monday’s debate did not “play well” with American voters, former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells Newsmax. Romney complained that the Navy is “smaller now than any time since 1917.” Obama responded: “We also have …

Josh Kilbourn: US Banks Under Minor Cyber-Attack – Probable Israeli False Flag — Meanwhile US Cyber-Security Largely Vaporware + Meta-RECAP

High Alert! Millions Of Bankers Cant Bank Online. BofA Blames Hackers From Middle East. Bank Cyber Attacks By Iran? Black Monday October 1, 2012? The financial and banking industries are on high alert tonight as a massive cyberattack continues, with potentially millions of customers of Bank of America, PNC and Wells Fargo finding themselves blocked …

Mini-Me: General Alexander Wants to Legislate “Critical Systems” IT Security

Huh? NSA’s Gen. Alexander: Companies Should Be Required To Fortify Networks Against Cyberattack By Ellen Nakashima Checkpoint Washington (Washingtonpost.com), May 4, 2012 Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the nation’s largest spy agency and its cyberwarfare command, is urging adoption of legislation to require companies providing critical services such as power and transportation to fortify …

DefDog: The infamous ‘take down the Internet in 30 minutes’ hearing from 1998 — Tens of Billions Later, NSA and OMB Have Not Done Their Jobs, US Cyber is Wide Open and Unsafe at Any Speed + Meta-RECAP

This is the famous hearing where Mudge told senators he could K-O the Internet in 30 minutes. It was a wide-ranging discussion, though Mudge’s claim is what the media ran with at the time. Watch and ask yourself, as Trustwave’s Tom Brennan does on his Facebook page this morning: “14 Years… have we gotten better?” …

Owl: The DHS Cybersecurity Logjam [aka Goat-Fest Scam]

Global Insights: The DHS’ Cybersecurity Logjam By Richard Weitz World Politics Review | 10 Apr 2012 When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established in March 2003, one of the new department’s primary goals was to enhance U.S. cybersecurity. But after several years passed without major DHS initiatives in this area, observers concluded that …

Review: Cyber-War – The Next Threat to National Security and What To Do About It

Richard Clarke 4.0 out of 5 stars Clarke is Always Worth Reading–and Always 20 Years Behind, March 31, 2012 I wrote the original letter to Marty Harris at the National Information Infrastructure, it–and the attachments developed with Winn Schwartau, Jim Anderson, and Bill Caeli–are easily found by searching for < 1994 Sounding the Alarm source=phibetaiota …