Jul
12
2009
Question #1: how many Asian reporters can you spot in the photo? Question #2: how many of them knew in advance this guy was going to call for a military cyber-attack against North Korea?
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Jun
23
2009
If that’s a war, then what words will we cheapen when something worse comes along? Will we call it a “cyber genocide”? A “cyber holocaust,” perhaps?
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Jun
07
2009
President Obama’s cybersecurity speech is essentially the same as President Clinton’s speech 11 years ago — right down to the debut of a flawed presidential report…
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, CIA, irony, McAfee, SANS, Tom Donahue, White House
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May
29
2009
It doesn’t make it any more real when it flows from the lips of the president of the United States…
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Mar
22
2009
Antivirus vendors & computer news outlets played a much greater role than they’ll ever admit…
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Tags: Brian Krebs, Graham Cluley, MasterCard, Microsoft, Sophos, Visa, Washington Post
Cyber-war & cyber-terror, Gov't & military, Media circus, Reporters & bloggers, Security vendors, Victims of hysteria | Rob Rosenberger |
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Feb
14
2009
“ooooh, I’m sorry! I could never possibly show you how I derived these extraordinarily round yet highly accurate figures. Our background data is super top secret mega need to know…”
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Feb
07
2009
French navy spokesman Jérome Erulin said “it was a security problem we had already simulated.” It’s good to know the French military keeps up with their surrender skills…
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Tags: Conficker, Conflicker, Daily Telegraph, Downadup, France, French navy, Jérome Erulin, navy, precautionary disconnect, USAF, worm
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Dec
20
2008
Congressman James Langevin (D-RI) fears America will suffer dire consequences in a successful cyber-attack. It might cause the failure of banking or national electrical systems, he said. Strong words. So — did a cyber-attack cause the banking industry to plea for a $700 billion emergency bailout?
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Sep
07
2008
Imagine the frustration Georgia’s president must have felt. Russian tanks & bombers are swooping in, but what does the media really care about? “President Saakashvili, is it true the president of Poland agreed to host your website until the cyberattacks subside?”
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Aug
19
2008
You’ll find details on the aircraft, tanks, and rifles used in this conflict … yet nothing at all on the cyber-weapons. Wikipedia offers not a single clue about the Kremlin’s computing might, software armaments, nor even a map of the major IP boundaries…
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