DefDog: Turning Cyber-Confuse Into a Major Command (Sinkhole for Fraud, Waste, and Abuse)

They have gone completely insane….. Military leaders seek higher profile for Pentagon’s Cyber Command unit Senior military leaders are recommending that the Pentagon’s two-year-old cyberwarfare unit be elevated to full combatant command status, sending a signal to adversaries that the U.S. military is serious about protecting its ability to operate in cyberspace, officials said. Gen. …

DefDog: Deja Vu on Cyber-Security, 25 Years After Terminal Compromise

Deja vu!  Seem to recall Winn Schwartau saying all of this in 1990-1991. The Looming Specter of Cyber Warfare: Deprivations and Social Breakdowns Keeping your finger on the pulse of evolving cyber threats is very difficult as they change so frequently and abruptly. In the following interview, IDGA’s @DefenseInsider explores the current and future landscape …

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 …

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 …