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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 NY Times has a long piece about the efforts of the Pentagon not only to stop the hackers and foreign entities who are constantly probing our networks, but also our abilities to turn tables on them and go on the offensive.   Included in such discussions and planning are throwbacks to the Nuclear age. [...]

Pentagon officials are playing down reports that sensitive data on the Air Force’s new F-35 fighter was ‘hacked’ that appeared in a number of media sources.  Originally it was claimed that sensitive electronic information was obtained by someone unknown entity but Lockheed officials, while confirming there was a hack, insist that only some unimportant maintenance [...]

No, it’s not a plot line from Dr. Who.
It’s the Pentagon and the new ‘CyberCommand’ that will soon be ’stood up’ to use military parlance.  Cybercommand will take some of the operations of Strategic Command some of the operations of NSA and DIA.  It would not affect the cyber efforts of DHS however.
Still to be [...]

The Washington Post is writing about a delegation of ‘tech leaders’ who have flown to Iraq to meet with various government officials about the Iraqi technology market.  Among the delegation is one of the founders of Twitter who is twittering and posting Flickr photos as he goes.  Also on the trip are:
Jason Lieberman founder and CEO [...]

There is an interesting pice today from CNN.  
The U.S. military has spent at least $100 million defending its computer network from and responding to cyberattacks, according to a top official responsible for network security.
This goes for everything from the bored script kiddie to nation-states and their sophisticated arrays of computer hacking systems.  The Pentagon [...]