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On the Ongoing Attacks between China, U.S., Russia, Israel, etc.…The latest round of evidence of ongoing digital warfare between the superpowers is now being reported in the N.Y. Times [1] after an undeniably incriminating 60-page report on the Chinese attacks on the U.S. by security firm Mandiant [2].
“Either they are coming from inside Unit 61398, or the people who run the most-controlled, most-monitored Internet networks in the world are clueless about thousands of people generating attacks from this one neighborhood.”
— Kevin Mandia
The report goes on to track individual participants in the attack, tracing them back to the headquarters of P.L.A. Unit 61398.
Attacks from the Chinese have been ongoing for many years, notably back to Operation Titan Rain [3] in 2003, in which attackers gained access to military intelligence networks at organizations such as Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, Redstone Arsenal, and NASA [4]. Direct military targets were also included in the assault, such as the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the Defense Information Systems Agency in Arlington, Virginia, the Naval Ocean Systems Center, a Defense Department installation in San Diego, California, and the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense installation in Huntsville, Alabama [5].
These ongoing attacks are labeled "Advanced Persistent Threats" or "APT" by the American Military, are considered acts of war by both the White House [6] and the Department of Defense [7] as far back as 2011, and are not unique to the Chinese origins. You may remember the 2007 attacks on Estonia [8], which has been attributed to entities within Russian territory operating with the assistance of the Russian government [9]. These attacks disabled a wide array of Estonian government sites, rendering services in the world's most digitally-connected country unusable. The attacks
also disabled ATM machines, effectively disabling some portion of the Estonian economy.
The United States [and arguably Israel, [10]] have also been actively participating in these attacks [11] with the deploying of FLAME and Stuxnet against Iran, which made international headlines this past year when the coordinated efforts of the tools were used to disable Iranian nuclear centrifuges in an attempt to slow their progress in their nuclear program [12]. These efforts are ongoing, with the latest addition of the Gauss and Duqu malwares [13] continuing to target middle-eastern countries.
“From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.”
—
+The New York TimesObama reportedly went on to sign a classified directive last year [14] enabling the government to
seize control of private networks, and the 2012 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) includes terms [15, section 954] that authorize offensive attacks on foreign threats [16]. The official United States policy already is to deem any cyberattack on the U.S. as an "act of war" [17], and it looks like these types of actions and attacks have already been made legal.
While it may once have been a subject of fiction [18], it's now and has been a harsh reality that we're in the middle of a new era in warfare, and the battles are already well-underway as countries around the world are openly engaging in offensive attacks on one another that are impacting economies on a massive scale. I don't know what else to call this other than a world war—even the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) predicted this [19], as have many others even earlier [20].
Here's a thought; if our constitution gives us the right to bear arms, and the government deems these types of attacks as acts of war, then isn't it our right to keep and bear these arms? Yet another case for a mass-algorate society [21], which Mr. Obama appears to agree with me on [22], at the very least.
[1]:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied-to-hacking-against-us.html[2]:
http://intelreport.mandiant.com/[3]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain[4]:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1098371,00.html[5]:
http://www.zdnet.com/news/security-experts-lift-lid-on-chinese-hack-attacks/145763[6]:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/international_strategy_for_cyberspace.pdf[7]:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html[8]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia[9]:
http://www.vedomosti.ru/smartmoney/article/2007/05/28/3004[10]:
http://www.zdnet.com/meet-gauss-the-latest-cyber-espionage-tool-7000002405/[11]:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?pagewanted=all[12]:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11388018[13]:
http://www.zdnet.com/meet-gauss-the-latest-cyber-espionage-tool-7000002405/[14]:
http://endthelie.com/2012/11/15/obama-reportedly-signs-classified-cyberwarfare-policy-directive-with-troubling-implications/#axzz2LMPlf8iA[15]:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pdf[16]:
http://endthelie.com/2011/12/17/approval-of-covert-offensive-cyberwar-sneakily-inserted-into-ndaa/[17]:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/06/05/the-white-house-and-pentagon-deem-cyber-attacks-an-act-of-war/[18]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer[19]:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol48no4/new_face_of_war.html[20]:
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reprints/2007/RAND_RP223.pdf[21]:
https://plus.google.com/112353210404102902472/posts/MVQXyw9EJDE[22]:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57569503-1/obama-endorses-required-high-school-coding-classes/
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China’s Army Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
An overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American companies and government agencies start in a building on the edge of Shanghai, say cybersecurity experts and American intelligence officials.
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On the Ongoing Attacks between China, U.S., Russia, Israel, etc.…The latest round of evidence of ongoing digital warfare between the superpowers is now being reported in the N.Y. Times [1] after an undeniably incriminating 60-page report on the Chinese attacks on the U.S. by security firm Mandiant [2].
“Either they are coming from inside Unit 61398, or the people who run the most-controlled, most-monitored Internet networks in the world are clueless about thousands of people generating attacks from this one neighborhood.”
— Kevin Mandia
The report goes on to track individual participants in the attack, tracing them back to the headquarters of P.L.A. Unit 61398.
Attacks from the Chinese have been ongoing for many years, notably back to Operation Titan Rain [3] in 2003, in which attackers gained access to military intelligence networks at organizations such as Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, Redstone Arsenal, and NASA [4]. Direct military targets were also included in the assault, such as the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the Defense Information Systems Agency in Arlington, Virginia, the Naval Ocean Systems Center, a Defense Department installation in San Diego, California, and the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense installation in Huntsville, Alabama [5].
These ongoing attacks are labeled "Advanced Persistent Threats" or "APT" by the American Military, are considered acts of war by both the White House [6] and the Department of Defense [7] as far back as 2011, and are not unique to the Chinese origins. You may remember the 2007 attacks on Estonia [8], which has been attributed to entities within Russian territory operating with the assistance of the Russian government [9]. These attacks disabled a wide array of Estonian government sites, rendering services in the world's most digitally-connected country unusable. The attacks
also disabled ATM machines, effectively disabling some portion of the Estonian economy.
The United States [and arguably Israel, [10]] have also been actively participating in these attacks [11] with the deploying of FLAME and Stuxnet against Iran, which made international headlines this past year when the coordinated efforts of the tools were used to disable Iranian nuclear centrifuges in an attempt to slow their progress in their nuclear program [12]. These efforts are ongoing, with the latest addition of the Gauss and Duqu malwares [13] continuing to target middle-eastern countries.
“From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.”
—
+The New York TimesObama reportedly went on to sign a classified directive last year [14] enabling the government to
seize control of private networks, and the 2012 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) includes terms [15, section 954] that authorize offensive attacks on foreign threats [16]. The official United States policy already is to deem any cyberattack on the U.S. as an "act of war" [17], and it looks like these types of actions and attacks have already been made legal.
While it may once have been a subject of fiction [18], it's now and has been a harsh reality that we're in the middle of a new era in warfare, and the battles are already well-underway as countries around the world are openly engaging in offensive attacks on one another that are impacting economies on a massive scale. I don't know what else to call this other than a world war—even the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) predicted this [19], as have many others even earlier [20].
Here's a thought; if our constitution gives us the right to bear arms, and the government deems these types of attacks as acts of war, then isn't it our right to keep and bear these arms? Yet another case for a mass-algorate society [21], which Mr. Obama appears to agree with me on [22], at the very least.
[1]:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied-to-hacking-against-us.html[2]:
http://intelreport.mandiant.com/[3]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain[4]:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1098371,00.html[5]:
http://www.zdnet.com/news/security-experts-lift-lid-on-chinese-hack-attacks/145763[6]:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/international_strategy_for_cyberspace.pdf[7]:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html[8]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia[9]:
http://www.vedomosti.ru/smartmoney/article/2007/05/28/3004[10]:
http://www.zdnet.com/meet-gauss-the-latest-cyber-espionage-tool-7000002405/[11]:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?pagewanted=all[12]:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11388018[13]:
http://www.zdnet.com/meet-gauss-the-latest-cyber-espionage-tool-7000002405/[14]:
http://endthelie.com/2012/11/15/obama-reportedly-signs-classified-cyberwarfare-policy-directive-with-troubling-implications/#axzz2LMPlf8iA[15]:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pdf[16]:
http://endthelie.com/2011/12/17/approval-of-covert-offensive-cyberwar-sneakily-inserted-into-ndaa/[17]:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/06/05/the-white-house-and-pentagon-deem-cyber-attacks-an-act-of-war/[18]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer[19]:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol48no4/new_face_of_war.html[20]:
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reprints/2007/RAND_RP223.pdf[21]:
https://plus.google.com/112353210404102902472/posts/MVQXyw9EJDE[22]:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57569503-1/obama-endorses-required-high-school-coding-classes/
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China’s Army Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
An overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American companies and government agencies start in a building on the edge of Shanghai, say cybersecurity experts and American intelligence officials.
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On the Ongoing Attacks between China, U.S., Russia, Israel, etc.…The latest round of evidence of ongoing digital warfare between the superpowers is now being reported in the N.Y. Times [1] after an undeniably incriminating 60-page report on the Chinese attacks on the U.S. by security firm Mandiant [2].
“Either they are coming from inside Unit 61398, or the people who run the most-controlled, most-monitored Internet networks in the world are clueless about thousands of people generating attacks from this one neighborhood.”
— Kevin Mandia
The report goes on to track individual participants in the attack, tracing them back to the headquarters of P.L.A. Unit 61398.
Attacks from the Chinese have been ongoing for many years, notably back to Operation Titan Rain [3] in 2003, in which attackers gained access to military intelligence networks at organizations such as Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, Redstone Arsenal, and NASA [4]. Direct military targets were also included in the assault, such as the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the Defense Information Systems Agency in Arlington, Virginia, the Naval Ocean Systems Center, a Defense Department installation in San Diego, California, and the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense installation in Huntsville, Alabama [5].
These ongoing attacks are labeled "Advanced Persistent Threats" or "APT" by the American Military, are considered acts of war by both the White House [6] and the Department of Defense [7] as far back as 2011, and are not unique to the Chinese origins. You may remember the 2007 attacks on Estonia [8], which has been attributed to entities within Russian territory operating with the assistance of the Russian government [9]. These attacks disabled a wide array of Estonian government sites, rendering services in the world's most digitally-connected country unusable. The attacks
also disabled ATM machines, effectively disabling some portion of the Estonian economy.
The United States [and arguably Israel, [10]] have also been actively participating in these attacks [11] with the deploying of FLAME and Stuxnet against Iran, which made international headlines this past year when the coordinated efforts of the tools were used to disable Iranian nuclear centrifuges in an attempt to slow their progress in their nuclear program [12]. These efforts are ongoing, with the latest addition of the Gauss and Duqu malwares [13] continuing to target middle-eastern countries.
“From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.”
—
+The New York TimesObama reportedly went on to sign a classified directive last year [14] enabling the government to
seize control of private networks, and the 2012 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) includes terms [15, section 954] that authorize offensive attacks on foreign threats [16]. The official United States policy already is to deem any cyberattack on the U.S. as an "act of war" [17], and it looks like these types of actions and attacks have already been made legal.
While it may once have been a subject of fiction [18], it's now and has been a harsh reality that we're in the middle of a new era in warfare, and the battles are already well-underway as countries around the world are openly engaging in offensive attacks on one another that are impacting economies on a massive scale. I don't know what else to call this other than a world war—even the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) predicted this [19], as have many others even earlier [20].
Here's a thought; if our constitution gives us the right to bear arms, and the government deems these types of attacks as acts of war, then isn't it our right to keep and bear these arms? Yet another case for a mass-algorate society [21], which Mr. Obama appears to agree with me on [22], at the very least.
[1]:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied-to-hacking-against-us.html[2]:
http://intelreport.mandiant.com/[3]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain[4]:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1098371,00.html[5]:
http://www.zdnet.com/news/security-experts-lift-lid-on-chinese-hack-attacks/145763[6]:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/international_strategy_for_cyberspace.pdf[7]:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html[8]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia[9]:
http://www.vedomosti.ru/smartmoney/article/2007/05/28/3004[10]:
http://www.zdnet.com/meet-gauss-the-latest-cyber-espionage-tool-7000002405/[11]:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?pagewanted=all[12]:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11388018[13]:
http://www.zdnet.com/meet-gauss-the-latest-cyber-espionage-tool-7000002405/[14]:
http://endthelie.com/2012/11/15/obama-reportedly-signs-classified-cyberwarfare-policy-directive-with-troubling-implications/#axzz2LMPlf8iA[15]:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pdf[16]:
http://endthelie.com/2011/12/17/approval-of-covert-offensive-cyberwar-sneakily-inserted-into-ndaa/[17]:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/06/05/the-white-house-and-pentagon-deem-cyber-attacks-an-act-of-war/[18]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer[19]:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol48no4/new_face_of_war.html[20]:
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reprints/2007/RAND_RP223.pdf[21]:
https://plus.google.com/112353210404102902472/posts/MVQXyw9EJDE[22]:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57569503-1/obama-endorses-required-high-school-coding-classes/
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China’s Army Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
An overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American companies and government agencies start in a building on the edge of Shanghai, say cybersecurity experts and American intelligence officials.
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On the Ongoing Attacks between China, U.S., Russia, Israel, etc.…The latest round of evidence of ongoing digital warfare between the superpowers is now being reported in the N.Y. Times [1] after an undeniably incriminating 60-page report on the Chinese attacks on the U.S. by security firm Mandiant [2].
“Either they are coming from inside Unit 61398, or the people who run the most-controlled, most-monitored Internet networks in the world are clueless about thousands of people generating attacks from this one neighborhood.”
— Kevin Mandia
The report goes on to track individual participants in the attack, tracing them back to the headquarters of P.L.A. Unit 61398.
Attacks from the Chinese have been ongoing for many years, notably back to Operation Titan Rain [3] in 2003, in which attackers gained access to military intelligence networks at organizations such as Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, Redstone Arsenal, and NASA [4]. Direct military targets were also included in the assault, such as the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the Defense Information Systems Agency in Arlington, Virginia, the Naval Ocean Systems Center, a Defense Department installation in San Diego, California, and the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense installation in Huntsville, Alabama [5].
These ongoing attacks are labeled "Advanced Persistent Threats" or "APT" by the American Military, are considered acts of war by both the White House [6] and the Department of Defense [7] as far back as 2011, and are not unique to the Chinese origins. You may remember the 2007 attacks on Estonia [8], which has been attributed to entities within Russian territory operating with the assistance of the Russian government [9]. These attacks disabled a wide array of Estonian government sites, rendering services in the world's most digitally-connected country unusable. The attacks
also disabled ATM machines, effectively disabling some portion of the Estonian economy.
The United States [and arguably Israel, [10]] have also been actively participating in these attacks [11] with the deploying of FLAME and Stuxnet against Iran, which made international headlines this past year when the coordinated efforts of the tools were used to disable Iranian nuclear centrifuges in an attempt to slow their progress in their nuclear program [12]. These efforts are ongoing, with the latest addition of the Gauss and Duqu malwares [13] continuing to target middle-eastern countries.
“From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.”
—
+The New York TimesObama reportedly went on to sign a classified directive last year [14] enabling the government to
seize control of private networks, and the 2012 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) includes terms [15, section 954] that authorize offensive attacks on foreign threats [16]. The official United States policy already is to deem any cyberattack on the U.S. as an "act of war" [17], and it looks like these types of actions and attacks have already been made legal.
While it may once have been a subject of fiction [18], it's now and has been a harsh reality that we're in the middle of a new era in warfare, and the battles are already well-underway as countries around the world are openly engaging in offensive attacks on one another that are impacting economies on a massive scale. I don't know what else to call this other than a world war—even the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) predicted this [19], as have many others even earlier [20].
Here's a thought; if our constitution gives us the right to bear arms, and the government deems these types of attacks as acts of war, then isn't it our right to keep and bear these arms? Yet another case for a mass-algorate society [21], which Mr. Obama appears to agree with me on [22], at the very least.
[1]:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied-to-hacking-against-us.html[2]:
http://intelreport.mandiant.com/[3]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain[4]:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1098371,00.html[5]:
http://www.zdnet.com/news/security-experts-lift-lid-on-chinese-hack-attacks/145763[6]:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/international_strategy_for_cyberspace.pdf[7]:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html[8]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia[9]:
http://www.vedomosti.ru/smartmoney/article/2007/05/28/3004[10]:
http://www.zdnet.com/meet-gauss-the-latest-cyber-espionage-tool-7000002405/[11]:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?pagewanted=all[12]:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11388018[13]:
http://www.zdnet.com/meet-gauss-the-latest-cyber-espionage-tool-7000002405/[14]:
http://endthelie.com/2012/11/15/obama-reportedly-signs-classified-cyberwarfare-policy-directive-with-troubling-implications/#axzz2LMPlf8iA[15]:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pdf[16]:
http://endthelie.com/2011/12/17/approval-of-covert-offensive-cyberwar-sneakily-inserted-into-ndaa/[17]:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/06/05/the-white-house-and-pentagon-deem-cyber-attacks-an-act-of-war/[18]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer[19]:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol48no4/new_face_of_war.html[20]:
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reprints/2007/RAND_RP223.pdf[21]:
https://plus.google.com/112353210404102902472/posts/MVQXyw9EJDE[22]:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57569503-1/obama-endorses-required-high-school-coding-classes/
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China’s Army Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
An overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American companies and government agencies start in a building on the edge of Shanghai, say cybersecurity experts and American intelligence officials.
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I dont know is that is really a work of government sponsored hackers , I mean "flame", but obviously that some ppl in government see that that attacks on infrastructure in Iran are great for them to promote American supremacy in IT technologies and hacking.
Therefore they will every attack on Iran in IT hacking field publicly sign as their own attack. If nothing else it hype out the moral of US troops and citizens.
But the worst thing about that is that they will not stop at hacking attacks but will continue with air and ground attacks by USA military and NATO alies.
Btw I generally stray out of politics also and this is just my vision of events that are and to come on global political scene.
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I've just learned of a virus that was launched against the U.S. Drone Fleet. See the attached article from Wired.
Earlier this year, the Pentagon recently concluded that digital attacks such as this can constitute an
act of war [1]. This one doesn't [yet] seem as sophisticated as last year's attack on Iran's nuclear reactors by Stuxnet [2], but it continues to show how important and integral our computer systems are in this rapidly changing world. Security professionals
+Alex Levinson,
+Jerome Radcliffe, and
+Scott Hanselman surely have some great insight here, I highly recommend you go take a look at some of the things they've written.
In 2009, a
very sophisticated [and successful] cyber-attack was launched from inside China that targeted the United States through Google and Adobe [3] that caused surprisingly few stirs within our government, especially after NATO was sent in to assist in the defense of Estonia's computer systems during the 2007 attacks [4]. Not long after this, the widely-used and [formerly] explicitly trusted RSA security mechanism, used in a large number major institutions around the world. was completely and entirely broken [5] by an embarrassingly simple hack [6].
Aside: We can look back at some of the things actual software engineers like
+Ryan Dahl [7] and
+Zack Morris [8] have been saying lately and quickly conclude that there's something fundamentally broken with the whole system. If you've ever worked on or with a large software project, you can see evidence of negligence and ignorance alike embedded at every level. It certainly contributes to if not
causes these types of security concerns.
[1]:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html[2]:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/stuxnet.html[3]:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/operation-aurora/[4]:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia[5]:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214757/RSA_warns_SecurID_customers_after_company_is_hacked[6]:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping-babel-10017967/rsa-hack-targeted-flash-vulnerability-10022143/[7]:
https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts/Di6RwCNKCrf[8]:
http://zackarymorris.tumblr.com/post/10973087527/the-state-of-the-art-is-terrible
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» Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over
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I've just learned of a virus that was launched against the U.S. Drone Fleet. See the attached article from Wired.
Earlier this year, the Pentagon recently concluded that digital attacks such as this can constitute an
act of war [1]. This one doesn't [yet] seem as sophisticated as last year's attack on Iran's nuclear reactors by Stuxnet [2], but it continues to show how important and integral our computer systems are in this rapidly changing world. Security professionals
+Alex Levinson,
+Jerome Radcliffe, and
+Scott Hanselman surely have some great insight here, I highly recommend you go take a look at some of the things they've written.
In 2009, a
very sophisticated [and successful] cyber-attack was launched from inside China that targeted the United States through Google and Adobe [3] that caused surprisingly few stirs within our government, especially after NATO was sent in to assist in the defense of Estonia's computer systems during the 2007 attacks [4]. Not long after this, the widely-used and [formerly] explicitly trusted RSA security mechanism, used in a large number major institutions around the world. was completely and entirely broken [5] by an embarrassingly simple hack [6].
Aside: We can look back at some of the things actual software engineers like
+Ryan Dahl [7] and
+Zack Morris [8] have been saying lately and quickly conclude that there's something fundamentally broken with the whole system. If you've ever worked on or with a large software project, you can see evidence of negligence and ignorance alike embedded at every level. It certainly contributes to if not
causes these types of security concerns.
[1]:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html[2]:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/stuxnet.html[3]:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/operation-aurora/[4]:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia[5]:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214757/RSA_warns_SecurID_customers_after_company_is_hacked[6]:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping-babel-10017967/rsa-hack-targeted-flash-vulnerability-10022143/[7]:
https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts/Di6RwCNKCrf[8]:
http://zackarymorris.tumblr.com/post/10973087527/the-state-of-the-art-is-terrible
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» Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over
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I've just learned of a virus that was launched against the U.S. Drone Fleet. See the attached article from Wired.
Earlier this year, the Pentagon recently concluded that digital attacks such as this can constitute an
act of war [1]. This one doesn't [yet] seem as sophisticated as last year's attack on Iran's nuclear reactors by Stuxnet [2], but it continues to show how important and integral our computer systems are in this rapidly changing world. Security professionals
+Alex Levinson,
+Jerome Radcliffe, and
+Scott Hanselman surely have some great insight here, I highly recommend you go take a look at some of the things they've written.
In 2009, a
very sophisticated [and successful] cyber-attack was launched from inside China that targeted the United States through Google and Adobe [3] that caused surprisingly few stirs within our government, especially after NATO was sent in to assist in the defense of Estonia's computer systems during the 2007 attacks [4]. Not long after this, the widely-used and [formerly] explicitly trusted RSA security mechanism, used in a large number major institutions around the world. was completely and entirely broken [5] by an embarrassingly simple hack [6].
Aside: We can look back at some of the things actual software engineers like
+Ryan Dahl [7] and
+Zack Morris [8] have been saying lately and quickly conclude that there's something fundamentally broken with the whole system. If you've ever worked on or with a large software project, you can see evidence of negligence and ignorance alike embedded at every level. It certainly contributes to if not
causes these types of security concerns.
[1]:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html[2]:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/stuxnet.html[3]:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/operation-aurora/[4]:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia[5]:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214757/RSA_warns_SecurID_customers_after_company_is_hacked[6]:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping-babel-10017967/rsa-hack-targeted-flash-vulnerability-10022143/[7]:
https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts/Di6RwCNKCrf[8]:
http://zackarymorris.tumblr.com/post/10973087527/the-state-of-the-art-is-terrible
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» Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over
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I've just learned of a virus that was launched against the U.S. Drone Fleet. See the attached article from Wired.
Earlier this year, the Pentagon recently concluded that digital attacks such as this can constitute an
act of war [1]. This one doesn't [yet] seem as sophisticated as last year's attack on Iran's nuclear reactors by Stuxnet [2], but it continues to show how important and integral our computer systems are in this rapidly changing world. Security professionals
+Alex Levinson,
+Jerome Radcliffe, and
+Scott Hanselman surely have some great insight here, I highly recommend you go take a look at some of the things they've written.
In 2009, a
very sophisticated [and successful] cyber-attack was launched from inside China that targeted the United States through Google and Adobe [3] that caused surprisingly few stirs within our government, especially after NATO was sent in to assist in the defense of Estonia's computer systems during the 2007 attacks [4]. Not long after this, the widely-used and [formerly] explicitly trusted RSA security mechanism, used in a large number major institutions around the world. was completely and entirely broken [5] by an embarrassingly simple hack [6].
Aside: We can look back at some of the things actual software engineers like
+Ryan Dahl [7] and
+Zack Morris [8] have been saying lately and quickly conclude that there's something fundamentally broken with the whole system. If you've ever worked on or with a large software project, you can see evidence of negligence and ignorance alike embedded at every level. It certainly contributes to if not
causes these types of security concerns.
[1]:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html[2]:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/stuxnet.html[3]:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/operation-aurora/[4]:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia[5]:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214757/RSA_warns_SecurID_customers_after_company_is_hacked[6]:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping-babel-10017967/rsa-hack-targeted-flash-vulnerability-10022143/[7]:
https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts/Di6RwCNKCrf[8]:
http://zackarymorris.tumblr.com/post/10973087527/the-state-of-the-art-is-terrible
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Direct line of heritage from the internet coffee pot. Serious hacks often reflect the oral fixation of hackers. lol
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The assumption that a technical infrastructure like this is directly connected to the internet for control, and is vulnerable to cyber attacks is not quite robust. Totally isolated local networks and control systems can not be hacked by cyber warfare. I find it difficult to believe critical systems will be controlled through the net.
Distributed wars fought on very large number of fronts weaken the defences of a stronger player and give an advantage to a weaker attacker. Col Blotto's game!
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+Eric Martindale I agree whole-heartedly. I've been trying to hack this behavior out of windows live mail for a couple months now. I type a lot of mathematics in emails, and every time I type something like (x) or any of a hundred other common constructs, that stupid thing makes it into an icon. I hate that!
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Today,
+Bitpay is excited to announce the general availability of Bitcore, an open-source library to interact directly with
#bitcoin . If you're building anything related to
#cryptofinance , I'm happy to answer questions. Happy Valentine's Day hacking, crypto-lovers!
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Bitcore
Bitcore is a complete, native interface to the Bitcoin network, and provides the core functionality needed to develop apps for bitcoin.
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Today,
+Bitpay is excited to announce the general availability of Bitcore, an open-source library to interact directly with
#bitcoin . If you're building anything related to
#cryptofinance , I'm happy to answer questions. Happy Valentine's Day hacking, crypto-lovers!
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Bitcore
Bitcore is a complete, native interface to the Bitcoin network, and provides the core functionality needed to develop apps for bitcoin.
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Today,
+Bitpay is excited to announce the general availability of Bitcore, an open-source library to interact directly with
#bitcoin . If you're building anything related to
#cryptofinance , I'm happy to answer questions. Happy Valentine's Day hacking, crypto-lovers!
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Bitcore
Bitcore is a complete, native interface to the Bitcoin network, and provides the core functionality needed to develop apps for bitcoin.
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Today,
+Bitpay is excited to announce the general availability of Bitcore, an open-source library to interact directly with
#bitcoin . If you're building anything related to
#cryptofinance , I'm happy to answer questions. Happy Valentine's Day hacking, crypto-lovers!
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Bitcore
Bitcore is a complete, native interface to the Bitcoin network, and provides the core functionality needed to develop apps for bitcoin.
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+Audrey Watters runs Hack Education (
http://www.hackeducation.com/ ), one of my favorite blogs about flipping academia around and bringing it into the modern world.
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+Carmelyne Thompson,
+Christa Laser,
+Jake McCuistion,
+Lucas Johnson, and
+Mohamed Mansour!) and watchers, you need to subscribe!
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ClassConnect: Rethinking the LMS. Audrey Watters on 17. Sep, 2011 in Reviews. “Tell me: what motivated you?” It's a fairly boilerplate question that I'll direct at my interview subjects. It...
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+Audrey Watters runs Hack Education (
http://www.hackeducation.com/ ), one of my favorite blogs about flipping academia around and bringing it into the modern world.
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+Carmelyne Thompson,
+Christa Laser,
+Jake McCuistion,
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http://www.hackeducation.com/ ), one of my favorite blogs about flipping academia around and bringing it into the modern world.
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+Christa Laser,
+Jake McCuistion,
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+Audrey Watters runs Hack Education (
http://www.hackeducation.com/ ), one of my favorite blogs about flipping academia around and bringing it into the modern world.
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+Carmelyne Thompson,
+Christa Laser,
+Jake McCuistion,
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Just caught this over a MySpace (gasp!) bulletin. Actually, I'm lying, Shannon called me when she posted this to make sure I saw it. Because you know I wouldn't have.
Girls - pick the first guy on your top friends.
Unless their family than pick the next one.
Guys - do the same, but the first girl .
- Don't change it
- Enter their name
- Be honest
- Repost this so your friends can do it too
1. Who is it?
...Errriiiccckkk.
2. How did you meet?
6th grade, baby. We go back.
3. If you were crying would this person cheer you up?
Always.
4. Where is this person?
Wendell
5. Have you ever spent the night with this person?
I've crashed at his place. But not with him. We don't roll like that, s0n.
6. Will this person repost this?
Lol, Never.
7. Is this person family?
Yup. Always will be part of it.
8. Do you trust this person ?
Uh Hu. He knows me better than anyone.
9. If you could change something about them, would you?
Nope. Well, I'd make it so he called more often. But we're both so damn busy.
10. Does this person live close to you?
5 minutes away.
11. How much does this person know about you?
TOO much...=). Just kidding.
12. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with this person?
We'd probably do stuipd shit so the people monitoring the elevator cameras
would be laughing their asses off. And then I'd probably be fussing him out, saying this was all his fault and he'd just sit there trying to take apart the damn elevator keypad and claim it was something he's always wanted to do. What a retard... ;)
13. Do you argue with this person?
God yes. And we fight. I'm Talking an all out BRAWL. ;)
14. If you guys went to jail together, what would it be for?
Running from the cops. Hacking into some top secret government website. Aiding and Ebedding. TRYING to get into Lake Royal. ha...
15. Do you want to see this person right now?
Sometime soon, Yeah. I miss him =(
"MY TOP BOY"- if you're a girl and "MY TOP GIRL"-if your a guy
I love you too, Shannon. You're... mostly correct. On which parts... I'm not at liberty to disclose. :D
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I often get asked for my Skype address, sometimes in relation to business or casual conversation. I politely decline with some degree of hand-waving about my reasons, and suggest an alternative form of communication (typically either Google Talk or Google Hangouts, depending on the context—both are built right in to Gmail!). I'd like to outline some of the reasons why I've made the decision to avoid Skype, primarily so I have something to link to when someone asks me about it.
First and foremost, we don't really know what Skype actually does. The binary (the actual program you run on your computer) is obfuscated, so attempts at disassembling it [PDF] to verify some of its strange behavior and the information it is transmitting have so far come up with very little. This is an issue, because Skype produces encrypted traffic even when you are not actively using Skype. This means we can only speculate on what information Skype is collecting about you after you've so graciously chosen to install it, and perhaps more importantly who it is sending that information to.
Quoting Salman Baset:
When a Skype client is not in a call and is running on a machine with public IP address, it has on the average 4-8 active TCP connections and atleast one UDP connection.
While connecting to external IP addresses is normal for a server/client architecture and necessary for receiving notifications, the volume of traffic and number of connections is concerning, considering the compounding issues between Skype's peer-to-peer architecture [PDF] and the "reasonable level of detection accuracy" in snooping on voice calls in Skype [PDF], despite the [purportedly] encrypted nature of the Skype protocol.
Speaking in general terms, Skype is "black box" software which has undergone no public review despite very concerning observed behavior. When new Skype malware (like Skype IMBot, of which an analysis is available, or the more recent Skype account hijacking) is released, there are very few options to protect ourselves if we've got Skype installed. On Linux, tools like AppArmor and TOMOYO exist, but without the ability to easily view the source and understand the attack (per perhaps even fix it proactively, before it occurs) we are at the mercy of Skype's new maintainers to provide a timely resolution in a reactive approach.
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
— Richard Stallman
In conclusion, while Skype may be convenient, it presents a series of questions that must be asked and implications to be considered before choosing it over other chat, VoIP, and video chat solutions. I can only hope that more people consider these things before doing so.
Asides
Some of the other things I found interesting, more recently than the research I've linked in this post, include
Skype's role in the Syrian conflict, in which a claim was made as follows:
A media activist in Idlib named Mohamed said a rebel informant working for the government was killed in Damascus six months ago after sending warnings to the Free Syrian Army on Skype.
“I saw this incident right in front of my eyes,” Mohamed said. “We put his info on Skype so he was arrested and killed.”
Skype (Microsoft) has also made other concerning statements after accusations of helping the U.S. Government spy on its own citizens.
Wikipedia also lists a large number of known flaws in Skype, which I've chosen to avoid duplicating in this post.
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