Category: Gov't & military

Jul 30 2009

Black Hat & DEFCON panelists: “Michelle Obama is doomed!”

Given all the media hoopla, you’d think a horri­fying BIND 9 vul­ner­a­bility has com­bined with a leaked top secret P2P file to guaran­tee the death of the First Lady…

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Jul 12 2009

Rep. HoaxsterHoekstra panders to Asian media

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

Iran accuses CNN of waging a “cyber war”

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

Obama part 3: a plagiary of President Clinton’s virus hype, 11 years later

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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May 29 2009

Obama part 2: where did his “$1 trillion” guesstimate come from?

Federal agencies rely on super­sti­tious rhetoric when it comes to cyber­space secu­rity. Obama doesn’t want change here — he clearly wants Ameri­cans to accept the status quo

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May 29 2009

Obama (!) spouts an urban legend in his cybersecurity speech

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

Two decades of virus hysteria contributes to the success of fake-AV scams

Antivirus vendors & computer news outlets played a much greater role than they’ll ever admit…

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Feb 14 2009

Obama’s intelligence chief coughs up bad cyber-intel

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

France’s navy surrenders to Downadup worm

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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Dec 20 2008

Irony in a U.S. gov’t “cyberwar simulation”

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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