Mini-Me: Hundreds of Thousands Will Go Off-Line in July – With Verification Comment by Winn Schwartau

Huh? FBI: Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July WASHINGTON (AP) — For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers …

Berto Jongman: Interesting National Security Headlines

Book Review – Truth And Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning French Cyber-Strategy GPS with Soul Hacktivism at Risk Integral Leadership Rosetta Stone Kony 2012 White Savior Industrial Complex Magnetic Pole Reversal Has Started – Will Take a Thousand Years Malware Proliferation Estimates PDF: Carnage Interrupted: An Analysis of Fifteen Terrorist Plots Against Public Surface …

DefDog: Nurturing Innovation in Spite of Really Rotten Rote Education + RECAP

For years I have done similar approaches when teaching….and have been told to stop because “it is not the way it is done!”  My classes were consistently better equipped to deal with the problems they faced as intelligence officers than the school house folks……they weren’t afraid of an intelligence failure of the information kind, only …

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?” …

Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists, Citizens, & Real-Time Pervasive Science

Scientists and citizens Sam Geall February 24, 2012 Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports. What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in south London, …

EVENT: 26-29 Jul 2012 Portland OR Open Source Bridge

Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 26–29, 2012 | Portland, Oregon Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. Open Source Bridge is not a typical technical conference: It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. Session …

Berto Jongman: Overview of Hacktivism and Anonymous as Influence

Anonymous unmasked: The collective’s disruptive influence By CATHERINE SOLYOM The Gazette, 31 March 2012 Hack the planet – save the world. That’s become the rallying cry of an army of keyboard warriors known as Anonymous, which in the last 18 months has targeted everyone from the Tunisian government to the Boston police, the Vatican to …