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There is an interesting piece on CNN.com of all places that postulates the real problem with the Google / China hack wasn’t the Chinese government but the US government and the backdoor computer systems installed to enable monitoring of calls and emails.  Bruce Schneir, the author of several books on security, writes that changes in [...]

A bit of a scare story coming from the press in Australia.  Seems some in the US government have told IT executives to be extremely careful when visiting China.  A bit of overkill.  You are probably under more of a threat just putting an unprotected system up on the Net.
Senior executives in US IT companies [...]

NSA and DHS moves cybersecurity FEBA (Forward Edge of the Battle Area) out of government networks and into civilian systems with Einstein 3

A massive coordinated attack on US government computer systems is underway, according to the Washington Post.  The attacks are aimed against a variety of government websites, such as the Department of Homeland Security and the FTC.  Also under attack are computers in South Korea, many of whom have fallen victim to the attacks and become bots [...]

The Obama administration is going to announce that they will be following the Bush era plan to use the National Security Agency (NSA) to screen traffic of private Internet companies, so says the Washington Post.
Under a classified pilot program approved during the Bush administration, NSA data and hardware would be used to protect the [...]

The New York Times is writing about the latest arms control agreement between the US and Russia–cybersecurity. Though like most other things there is a disagreement on how to proceed.
Russia favors an international treaty along the lines of those negotiated for chemical weapons and has pushed for that approach at a series of meetings this [...]

First Rackspace moved to San Antonio, and now the Air Force’s Cyber Command is preparing to follow (maybe there is a connection?).   Lackland AFB in San Antonio is being selected by Air Force officials as the headquarters for a new cyber command apparently, after site selection teams visited several bases and took a look at [...]

The Washington Post and others have been writing about a supposed mega-hack of medical files in the State Commonwealth of Virginia.  The hackers claim to have accessed 8 million patient records and 35 million prescriptions collected by the Prescription Monitoring Program and gave a Thursday deadline and ransom of $10 million before they returned the [...]

A new audit by the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General is raising questions about the security of the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer systems, which could potentially affect air traffic control systems.  However, you need to read the fine print.
The audit found that several of the administrative systems, such as personnel records and whatnot were vulnerable [...]

Well, it’s just a theory I’m thinking about right now.  But the Posse Comitatus Act is a very old law designed to keep the Federal Government / Military out of the law enforcement business.  Yesterday, in testimony to the House Armed Services Committee, the new director of CyberCommand hinted that technologies and skills developed by [...]