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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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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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Fresh from the cyberattack that just about took down the Internet earlier in the week, Nicole Perlroth of the New York Times, along with David Sanger, who uncovered the administration’s deployment of the Stuxnet virus into Iranian networks, serve up still more fearmongering on Iranian and North Korean cyberwar capabilities. From the Times: The difficulty […]
A particularly over-the-top example, distributed everywhere by Reuters. This “news” video creates the impression, one reinforced by its unnamed talking heads, that a cyberattack on America’s power grid would be more devastating than the worst natural catastrophe. The attack would be untraceable, would take a second and would burn out tens of thousands of transformers […]
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It never stops: The White House on Monday accused China of hacking U.S. companies on an “unprecedented scale” and demanded that the attacks stop, in the administration’s most pointed public criticism yet. National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon called on the Chinese government to recognize the urgency of this issue, investigate and stop the alleged hacking, […]
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There’s no place safe from electronic Pearl Harbor, not even lowly Huntsville, Alabama. Or rather, there’s no place the plutocrat cutpurses and their shoeshine boys in the national cyberwar industry find too small if there are taxpayer dollars to be taken off the rubes. Infamous cyberwar-shoeshine man, Mike McConnell, picked up his check from the […]
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