I’m long overdue in posting about SecondLife. Perhaps, it is because I’ve been too busy exploring it and writing about the implications of persistent virtual worlds in a paper I’ve been working on. From my perspective as a persistent, if not presient, technologist….SecondLife changes everything. It is a virtual world inhabited by several hundred thousand [...]
Several months ago, stories on the AQ 007 where everywhere. Now we have an update from the Washington Post.
Doogie Howser jokes, Bruce Schneier takedowns…all in the context of national security and intelligence issues. The GroupIntel Blog is rolling. If you haven’t checked it out recently, it is worth a look.
A few new interesting details regarding a thwarted attack against a target in L.A.
I’ll admit to being pretty frustrated over all the discussion about how the government should be excluded from a shutdown of Blackberry service in the United States. Partial infrastructure shutdowns are not the answer. If a shutdown is ordered, it should be for all RIM customers with no exclusions. By excluding the government, we are [...]
It is in closed beta right now, but I have to admit that I am overly impressed with Newsvine. It has a lot of buzz in the tech circles and it appears to be warranted. For those in the beta, my promoted stories can be found at terrorism.newsvine.com. If you aren’t in the beta and [...]
And a not so decent write-up or our BlackHat Federal presentation. A few misconceptions that don’t track with the point we were trying to get across. However, this quote says a lot about the problem space. I hope that this attracts some attention and gets Tom Parker some support for the models he is working [...]
A decent write-up from my BlackHat presentation. “Obviously, nation-states have greater capacity to finance attacks,” Devost said. “We need to ask ourselves, ‘Who are the threats,’ because they all look the same in the exploit.” Effective risk management requires greater granularity in identifying our attackers, their motives and their capabilities, Devost said.
I’ll be speaking at Black Hat Federal on January 23-26, 2006. If you are going to be in town for the event, let me know. Conference site.
The flaw, which allows hackers to infect computers using programs maliciously inserted into seemingly innocuous image files, was first discovered last week. But the potential for damaging attacks increased dramatically at the weekend after a group of computer hackers published the source code they used to exploit it. Unlike most attacks, which require victims to [...]
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