Security

Will terrorists go nuclear?  That is the essential questioned posed by counterterrorism expert Brian Jenkins in a book of the same title. Jenkins has written a sobering and critical analysis of this question that spans over his decades of research on the topic.  In fact, the book shares the title of a research paper Jenkins [...]

I still show this video in my class every semester at Georgetown.  Nice to see it digitized: Solar Sunrise:  Dawn of a New Threat

Lots of interesting online press about this project I am participating in: The online posse to unmask Russia’s hackers is ready to ride. Two weeks back, we linked to an open source effort by IntelFusion’s Jeff Carr to figure out who, exactly, participated in the recent Russian cyberstrikes against Georgia and Estonia. (It’s a problem [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about Mike Tanji’s Think Tank 2.0 concept that he has been pitching over at Haft of the Spear. Couple that with the discussion on tools on Mike’s blog, but also on Bob Gourley’s CTO Vision and I was struck with a key realization that while the Think Tank 2.0 concept [...]

Beware the filching.  I won’t summarize it here, just go read it.  [Link--->]

A few weeks ago I read Cory Doctorow’s latest novel entitled Little Brother and was impressed enough with the book to add it to the required reading list for both my classes at Georgetown (Information Warfare and Security and Introduction to Information Privacy). Little Brother introduces us to a group of teenagers who become concerned [...]

I don’t know the details of this story, but I do know the players involved on the TEW side and it is guys like John Sullivan and Larry Richards that advanced concepts of information sharing at the state and local level and efforts like theirs are what stand between us and the next attack.  I’ve [...]

“China denied accusations by two U.S. lawmakers that it hacked into congressional computers, saying Thursday that as a developing country it wasn’t capable of sophisticated cybercrime.” [Link--->]

Neat little essay snagged via Slashdot.  Wargames and Sneakers still stand as two of my favorite films about computer security. I thought that WarGames also merited mentioning (in addition to it being a terrific film) because of the reaction that it engendered upon its release. With its depiction of teens hacking into school systems to [...]

Good article at Wired, but even more entertaining discussion that follows it: While most government agencies are struggling to keep their computers out of the latest Russian botnets, Col. Charles W. Williamson III is proposing that the Air Force build its own zombie network, so it can launch distributed denial of service attacks on foreign [...]