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Botnets Continue Fight to Control Your Computer

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June 16, 2011

There are now criminal turf wars going on over the thousands of computers that comprise botnets across America and the world. This “invisible” conflict is unknown to most computer users in America. Botnets can be used to search for and steal money, financial data, passwords, and intellectual property. The size of some of the botnets out there rival and surpass the capabilities of most nation states, and the guys who control them are NOT the good guys.

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Major CNAS Cyber Report Released

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June 10, 2011

The Center for a New American Security has published an excellent and comprehensive report titled “America’s Cyber Future: Security and Prosperity in the Information Age.” To be frank, the report is like a ready-made syllabus for cyber security. CNAS should be congratulated for the quality of the authors they have assembled, for letting them write effectively and openly, and for developing the chapeau to cover the lot.

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Time for America to Get Cyber-Serious

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June 7, 2011

Time for America to Get Cyber-Serious – The Foundry
In the 1995 movie The Net, Sandra Bullock fights computer hackers attempting to cyber-sabotage her life. The hackers successfully change her identity, manipulate U.S. markets, and access the private personal data of U.S. officials. While the clunky looking computers, cell phones, and storyline in the movie are joked about today, cyber terrorism is a real—and much bigger—threat 16 years later.

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Security Think Tank Conference Covers Top U.S. Issues

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June 7, 2011

Last week, I was privileged to attend the 5th annual conference of the Center for a New American Security. This year’s conference had a series of excellent panels that pushed through some of the most important issues facing the Nation. Bottom line, the conference overall was a winner. It was very well administered; the content was far superior to the normal Washington affairs.

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Cybersecurity – The End of the Beginning

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May 31, 2011

I have closely watched the reaction to the Obama Administration’s recent moves on cyberspace – 20th century mentalities dealing with a 21st century problem. This frontier is without rules or rulers. However, we have not only a national stake in cyberspace through our defense structure; we also have a vast commercial stake with our banking, electrical and other major national industries depending on its viability and safety. We are at the end of the beginning of cyberspace and the lawless frontier.

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Cyber Combat: Act of War

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May 31, 2011

Cyber Combat: Act of War – Wall Street Journal
The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.

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Auditors: DHS lacks cost justification for $780 million spent on border network – NextGov

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May 31, 2011

Auditors: DHS lacks cost justification for $780 million spent on border network – NextGov
For half a decade, the Homeland Security Department did not collect cost-justification information for invoices from contractor Boeing Co., before paying the company for services rendered on a $1 billion failed, virtual border fence, federal auditors concluded.

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Homemade cyberweapon worries federal officials

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May 31, 2011

Homemade cyberweapon worries federal officials – Washington Times
Two security researchers, working at home in their spare time, have created a cyberweapon similar to the sophisticated Stuxnet computer worm that was discovered last year to have disrupted computer systems running Iran’s nuclear program.

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Industry Continues to Look for the Cyber "Decoder Ring"

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May 27, 2011

In the last few weeks, the Obama White House has made some bold moves in the cyber arena. It has been quite a while coming. Delayed gratification seems to be the strategy with regard to cyber. Well, after a few weeks, most of us are still confused. Industry players are back in the starter blocks, ready to dash, but they still have not divined the Obama Administration’s direction for cyber to a degree that will allow them to move forward.

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Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan Would Burden Industry, Lawmaker Says

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May 25, 2011

Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan Would Burden Industry, Lawmaker Says – Bloomberg An Obama administration proposal for bolstering the nation’s defenses against a cyber attack would give the Homeland Security Department too much power over private industry, a U.S. lawmaker said today. The administration’s proposal released May 12 calls for Homeland Security to work with industry to […]

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