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testing the great firewall of china
When search titan Google decided to censor its search results to gain access to the exploding Chinese web market, it attracted plenty of criticism. And with good reason. For a company with the famous...
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how not to turn the web into a weapon
Wired’s Ryan Singel is weary about Michael McConnell’s sales pitch for cyber-weapon capabilities. According to his post on the Threat Level blog, some of the plans he’s been proposed to the NSA could...
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cyber-security. you’re doing it very wrong.
Just when I think that politicians can’t be any more disappointing than they are today, and there’s nothing they could do to make themselves look even more clueless and inept, Joe Lieberman manages to...
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did cyber-warfare finally invade the real world?
While there’s a lot of talk about cyber-warfare, most examples of it are pretty transparent attempts to censor criticism via relatively crude denial of service attacks, read e-mails of political...
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cybersecurity done horribly wrong, revisited
Humans have a long history of bad ideas including our attempts to treat the plague with leaches, blaming the mentally ill for being possessed by demons, the Inquisitions, and a whole lot of other...
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how cyberwarfare is becoming the new black
Generally, if you work with technology for a living, you notice that people have two extreme reactions to all new electronic devices. The first is surprise that they can do anything beyond their...
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is the great e-scare finally being toned down?
So we’ve already seen how some of the more vocal pronouncements about cyber warfare were overhyped by those who think that hackers are nearly omnipotent, and thankfully, more and more skeptics with a...
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how covert asymmetric warfare could go orbital
Some of my latest posts about cyber warfare seem to have attracted a few eyes, including those of someone who does research in the security field. One pair of the eyes in question belong to Dr. Jan...
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the opening shots in the battle of the hackers
Nowadays, if you hack into a company’s servers, the company might hack you right back. No, it won’t wipe your hard drive or infect you with a virus of course. The goal is to figure out who you are and...
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the curious case of the cyberattack that never was
Supervisors at a water treatment facility in Indiana knew that something was wrong when a pump stopped working for seemingly no reason. Their concerns only grew when they checked the logs and saw that...
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why cyberwarfare won’t have a battle of thermopylae
While reporting about cyberwarfare and information security has been getting better and better as of late, there are still some articles that posit baffling ideas about how to prevent a massive cyber...
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