In the hills of near Cockeysville, MD, various teams of emergency responders were communicating through a central incident command system after a truck carrying chlorine collided with a train near a telecommunications facility. Although the emergency the first week in April was simulated, men and women in grade B Hazmat suits were nonetheless struggling to [...]
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May 6th 2011 | Posted by admin
In the first report of its kind, Debix, an identity protection services company, found the identity theft victimization rate among children was 10 percent last year, or fifty-one times the .2 percent of identity theft within the adult population.
The report, Child Identity Theft: New Evidence Indicates Identity Thieves are Targeting Children for Unused Social Security [...]
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March 28th 2011 | Posted by admin
DNS creator Paul Mockapetris
When you type in Forbes.com (instead of a string of hard-to-remember numbers) you can thank Paul Mockapetris, one of the creators of the Domain Name System (DNS). DNS is fundamental to the Internet, instantly translating the common name to the machine address without the user being aware.
Now, after 40 years, DNS is [...]
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March 6th 2011 | Posted by admin
Cryptography Research President Paul Kocher
When a computer crashes, our instinct is to reboot and not to question its root cause. But perhaps we should try to understand our failures before trying to forget them. Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist, of Cryptography Research, Inc. in San Francisco thinks that computer security industry’s understanding of [...]
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February 13th 2011 | Posted by admin
A frightening pattern of targeted espionage reports has a new entry provided by McAfee. The Night Dragon report, issued Thursday, details a concerted effort to harvest oil and gas reserve information and other highly confidential information from the executives of at least five major oil, gas, and energy companies. Reserve trading and SCADA [...]
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February 12th 2011 | Posted by admin
The Egyptian government’s recent cutting of all Internet traffic in and out of the country in response to ongoing protests calling for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak has garnered a great deal of international attention and condemnation. One result has been a renewed debate in the United States about the possibility of creating a [...]
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February 2nd 2011 | Posted by admin
The eruption of Icelandic volcanoe Eyjafjallajokull. This is not what cyberwar looks like.
A recent OECD report [PDF], ”Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk,” has concluded, in part, that governments “need to make detailed preparations to withstand and recover from a wide range of unwanted cyber events, both accidental and deliberate. There are significant and growing risks of localised misery and loss [...]
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January 20th 2011 | Posted by admin
The U.S.’s military dominance might not extend to the digital realm, warned Franklin D. Kramer, distinguished research fellow in the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University and a former deputy security of defense. Therefore, Kramer said in his Tuesday keynote at the Black Hat conference in Arlington Virginia, there [...]
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December 29th 2010 | Posted by admin
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For many years, the 4 minute mile was considered to be an impossible feat. Neal Bascomb, who wrote a wonderful article detailing its history, explains:
The number had a certain mathematical elegance — “four laps, four quarter-miles, four-point-oh-oh minutes–that it seemed God himself had established it as man’s limit.” For decades the best middle-distance [...]
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December 16th 2010 | Posted by admin
The article I wrote yesterday on the lessons of Gawker’s massive security breach spurred a number of reactions including one I was not quite expecting: an e-mail from Gawker Media founder Nick Denton.
Denton is a controversial figure in the worlds of media and politics as documented in much of the coverage of the breach, but as [...]