Items Tagged with "National Security"
Congress to Use Skype Despite Security Concerns
June 29, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Members of Congress will now be allowed to use Skype video conferencing on government networks. The announcement comes on the heels of revelations that Microsoft had filed a application in 2009 seeking to patent technology that allows for surreptitious recording of Skype transmissions...
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Critics Rip White House Cybersecurity Proposal
June 28, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Virtually everybody gets breached. If you're going to have these advanced persistent threat guys come after you, they're going to get into your system. If you're going to make that the line, and then you're subject to these name-and-shame penalties, I think that would be a mistake..."
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ISA to Testify Before Subcommittee on Cybersecurity
June 23, 2011 Added by:Headlines
ISA has articulated its pro-market approach to cyber security through the two editions of its “Cyber Security Social Contract.” When the Obama Administration released its own policy paper for cyber security, the Cyberspace Policy Review, the first document it quoted was the ISA Social Contract...
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China: There is No Cyber War With the United States
June 22, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The U.S. military is hastening to seize the commanding military heights... and another Internet war is being pushed to a stormy peak. To protect [China's] Internet security, we must accelerate Internet defense development and accelerate steps to make a strong Internet army..."
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U.S. Rules of the Road for Cyber Warfare Issued
June 22, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"We've had 50 years in which we haven't really had to rethink what might happen in a war here. We need to think very hard about an actual strategy about how to win a war in which cyber weapons are prominently featured..."
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Chertoff Warns of Threat from Small Hacker Collectives
June 21, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“We can have networks that can cause... existential damage without a nation-state involved. With the confluence of globalization and technology, these groups now have the ability to cause the kind of damage that used to involve national effort. We got a taste of this on 9/11..."
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InfraGard: Cyberwar Declaration on the Horizon
June 20, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"What does our government or other governments think is an effective deterrent or response to an all out cyber attack? Since we have no good definitions or protocols, I do think that the attack on Lockheed Martin is a sign of the future..."
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Richard Clarke: China's Cyberassault on America
June 17, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"What would we do if we discovered that Chinese explosives had been laid throughout our national electrical system? The public would demand a response. If, however, the explosive is a digital bomb that could do even more damage, our response is apparently muted—especially from our government..."
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Anti-Hacker Kill Switch Voodoo Containment Systems
June 15, 2011 Added by:J. Oquendo
Internet killswitches: Who needs them and why. It is rather ironic to even think about the United States attempting to carry out some form of killswitch considering that at the same time, the government is trying to build a system to bypass other countries' killswitches...
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Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Plant Targeted in Cyberattack
June 15, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Y-12's external website has been replaced with a temporary information page. At this point, there is no evidence that any plant-wide email or internal computing services have been affected, nor has any classified or sensitive information been accessed or affected by this incident..."
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CIA Chief: Cyberattack Could Be Next Pearl Harbor
June 14, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“The next Pearl Harbor we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples our power systems, our grid, our security systems, our financial systems, our governmental systems. It is going to take both defensive measures as well as aggressive measures to deal with it..."
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Microsoft Monoculture as a Threat to National Security
June 10, 2011 Added by:Danny Lieberman
A report from a stellar cast of infosec experts and thought leaders shows that the complexity and dominance of Microsoft’s Windows operating system in US Federal agencies makes the government prone to cyber attack – a national security threat. This was in September 2003...
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Anonymous Responds to NATO Threats
June 06, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Do not make the mistake of challenging Anonymous. Do not make the mistake of believing you can behead a headless snake. If you slice off one head of Hydra, ten more heads will grow in its place. If you cut down one Anon, ten more will join us purely out of anger..."
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NATO Threatens to "Persecute" Anonymous Hacktivists
June 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"It remains to be seen how much time Anonymous has for pursuing such paths. The longer these attacks persist the more likely countermeasures will be developed, implemented, the groups will be infiltrated and perpetrators persecuted..."
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RSA SecurID Breach Spreads to L3 and Northrop
June 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"We're seeing are targeted attacks against the defense industry. The RSA attack was very sophisticated, probably executed by people who had plans for what to do with the keys. Think about the data that those companies have. They have our nation's military technology secrets..."
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Governments Escalate Cyber Warfare Rhetoric
June 01, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“We must plan, train, exercise and operate in a way which integrates our activities in both cyber and physical space. We will grow a cadre of dedicated cyber experts to support our own and allied cyber operations and secure our vital networks...”