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 …

21.3% of Malicious ‘Spam’ Researched by Symantec comes from Shaoxing China (30% China, 21.1% from Romania, US 3rd)

Researchers based in Symantec studied over 12 billion emails and identified that almost 30% of all malicious emails are sourced from within China and that 21.3% came from the Chinese city of Shaoxing alone.  The researchers were also able to identify that the primary targets for these malicious emails were human rights activists and experts …

Journal: Pentagon as VERY Slow Learner….

Time.com    March 18, 2010 To Battle Computer Hackers, The Pentagon Trains Its Own By Mark Thompson, Washington “More than 100 foreign intelligence organizations are trying to hack into U.S. systems,” Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn warned last month. “Some governments already have the capacity to disrupt elements of the U.S. information infrastructure.” So the Pentagon …

MILNET Headlines, 3 March 2010

Animals at War:  Bomb Dog Suffers from Stress Bad Business:  Microsoft CEO: Google Merits Regulatory Scrutiny Bad Government I:  Politically Correct Killing? Bad Government II:  Obama Now Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes Bad Government III:  White House Land Grab Bad Government IV:  How Reconciliation Works in Congress Bad Judgment:  JFK tower allowed a kid …

MILNET Headlines, 3 March 2010

Cloud Computing:  Security Concerns Make GSA Rethink Cloud Computing Plan Cyber-Security:  Spain Busts Hackers for Infecting 13 Million PCs Cyber-Security:  The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Darwin I: Flipping off Cops is Legal, Not Advised Darwin II:  Copper Thieves Electrocuted (Photos of Fried Crooks) Homeland Security:  Security Key to DHS’ Initiative to Share Info with Foreign …