By Bob Gourley Students of history know what happens when adversaries learn how the good guys collect intelligence on them. They change their tactics, techniques or procedures and it gets much harder to know their intentions. Most of us knew this is what would happen with the disclosures by Edward ...
By SeanLawson No natural disaster in the last several years has passed without a government official or civilian “expert” using it to raise fears of cyber threats. That is why, after a series of snarky tweets over the last couple days by Rob Rosenberger, I was inspired to create a Google alert f...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said cybercrime represents the “greatest threat and actual activity that we have seen aimed at the west and at the United States” including “or other than Al Qaeda a...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The State Department purchased anti-Al Qaeda ads on affiliate websites to counter their message and did not, as initial reports claim, hack the Al Qaeda sites. More here. The WikiBoat, a new hacking group, launched its op...
“When news outlets recently quoted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claiming that State Department operatives hacked the web sites of al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen, we didn’t know whether to be proud of the feds’ Leet skills or appalled at the administration’s hypocrisy regarding h...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: An Al Qaeda video calls for an “electronic jihad” against American computer networks. More here. The National Security Agency will set up Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations at Dakota State Unive...
“Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says U.S. cyber experts hacked al-Qaeda propaganda online in Yemen, changing ads that bragged about killing Americans into ads that showed the death toll of al-Qaeda attacks against Yemenis.” (Clinton: U.S. hacked Yemeni al-Qaeda sites – USATO...
“Al-Qaeda operatives are seeking the capability to stage cyber attacks against U.S. networks, the intelligence chief of the U.S. Cyber Command said. While it’s ‘accurate today,’ that the terrorist group isn’t close to having such a capacity, ‘how fast that can change is my concern,...