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NSA director, Mr. Keith Alexander, encouraging young hackers to save the US from economic crippling and mass loss of life in the immediate future at the 2012 DefCon meeting in Las Vegas. From Reuters: The annual Defcon hacking convention has asked the federal government to stay away this year for the first time in its […]
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I’d skipped this last week because it was a particularly exceptional example of pathetic American journalism, a feature at high button Vanity Fair, on the “terrifying” nature of cyberwar. It was made for the print edition, so it was completed before the Edward Snowden affair blew the rubbish of it into the trash. It’s standard […]
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For about a year I’ve been saying the US has touched off cyberwar on the Internet. When it deployed Stuxnet into the Iranian nuclear program and continued to write and deploy malware for that purpose it ignited a clandestine battle. Stuxnet could not be restricted or contained, as has always been the case with computer […]
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The Edward Snowden affair has done many things. One of the most signal is its (at least momentary) destruction of the US government/national security megaplex’s campaign of cyberwar shoeshine. In the weeks preceeding the emergence of Edward Snowden’s information on cyber-spying in the US government had conducted a carefully staged p.r. operation to paint China […]
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The plutocrats of Wall Street and their trade association band together to drill on defending themselves from cyberattack: Quantum Dawn 2 is coming to Wall Street. No, it’s not a video game or a bad zombie movie; it’s a simulated cyber attack to prepare banks, brokerages and exchanges for what has become an ever-bigger risk […]
From the Guardian, yesterday: Edward Snowden said he was releasing the information to demonstrate “the hypocrisy of the US government when it claims that it does not target civilian infrastructure, unlike its adversaries”. Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the State Department in Washington, said it was not aware of the hacking claims and could not […]
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One good thing about the Edward Snowden affair: It has quieted NSA director Keith Alexander on cyber-espionage against the US being the greatest transfer of wealth in history. At least for a moment. In fact, it’s blown the Cult of Cyberwar and its army of shoeshine completely off the pages of the dailies. In turnabout, […]
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From the wire: The source of the intelligence leaks that revealed the National Security Agency’s massive domestic surveillance program last week was identified on Sunday by the Guardian as Edward Snowden, a soft-spoken 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of NSA defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton … “I don’t want to […]
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Because President Obama will be meeting China’s premier, Xi Jinping, will be meeting in southern California this week, count on the press to deluge everyone with pieces on the latter country’s cyberespionage, always said to be stealing our economic future, precious military designs, and everything. Today the New York Times fulfills the role by finding […]
If you’ve been following along it’s no secret the US government and the national security industry have been waging an increasingly concerted campaign to increase cyber-defense spending. The lynchpin of the strategy is the relentless argument that Chinese hackers, under the guidance of its government and military, are into all American corporate business, military networks […]
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