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“in [Richard Clarke's] Cyberwar, like in real war, truth is the first casualty” Cyberdeterrence through tattlling? This is ridiculous. Not bloody likely that will work against serious hackers. And not...
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“Who can do a better job of protecting us from cyberthreats: private companies like Google, or Uncle Sam?” Cyberwings. That’ll raise morale. Or not. Computer security on the Death Star was a joke
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Principles of Robust Timing Over the Internet “[An IPv4 address space] black market already exists, albeit on a small scale…[currently] IPv4 addresses are still relatively easy to get…[some believe]...
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“like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry…in disagreement with the prediction of the standard model by 3.2 standard deviations” OK, now VMs are totally safe! No need to worry about escape attacks or...
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There’s been some buzz (see here and here) over the deputy SECDEF’s comments last week: “Individual users who do not want to enroll could stay in the ‘wild, wild west’ of the unprotected internet…I...
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Our free/open-source visual network traffic monitoring software is now available for download at www.eqnets.com. A video of our enterprise system in action and technical documents detailing our...
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Galrahn has an interesting take on Stuxnet: “Welcome to the future of warfare, where simply planting doubt in the reliability of a system due to a cyberwarfare based malware payload infection is enough...
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I popped in for a couple of stretches at Mandiant’s MIRcon incident response conference today and yesterday and was struck by a panel discussion on Tuesday about defenders going on offense. The gist...
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“Stuxnet targets only frequency drives from these two companies that are running at high speeds — between 807 Hz and 1210 Hz. Such high speeds are used only for select applications. Symantec is careful...
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“’To check out the worm, you have to know the machines,’ said an American expert on nuclear intelligence. ‘The reason the worm has been effective is that the Israelis tried it out.’”
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