“Suddenly, it feels like 2000 again. Back then, surveillance programs like Carnivore, Echelon, and Total Information Awareness helped spark a surge in electronic privacy awareness. Now a decade later, the recent discovery of programs like PRISM, Boundless Informant, and FISA orders are catalyzing renewed concern.” Source: Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> We Should All Have [...]
“Every time you spend bitcoins to buy a drink at Evr, a swanky bar in midtown Manhattan that accepts the digital currency, you make its co-owner, Charlie Shrem, just a little bit richer. And that’s not only because a chamomile sour costs $17 (or 0.16 bitcoins). It’s because whenever someone new uses bitcoins, the electronic [...]
I was there when this shirt was conceived in the early 90’s. Used to get lots of laughs when I wore it in mid 90’s. http://t.co/ozxBiXYjUk
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“If you’re stargazing at night, or just somewhere dark and you don’t want to be blinded by using your phone, Sunset for Android is a simple screen filter that applies a reddish overtone to your display so you won’t lose your night vision.” Source:Sunset Lets You Use Your Phone Without Losing Your Night Vision
Things that make you hmmm. Leaker now living in Hong Kong?
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“If you’ve been around the medical profession, you have probably seen an explosion of iPads. Doctors I’ve talked to say they are easy to carry around, and the iPad mini in particular seems a great fit for pockets. Meanwhile, companies that write software for medical uses are quickly creating apps that are iPad-friendly.” Source: Hospital [...]
There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information.
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“The U.S. government will use classified information about software vulnerabilities for the first time to protect companies outside of the military industrial complex, top officials told Reuters this week. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said that a system being developed to scan Internet traffic headed toward critical businesses would block attacks on software programs [...]
It is a little known fact that all PRISM data is released into the public domain by the USG...
via Numbers Stations.
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“A prominent computer security researcher says he recently rejected a request by a Saudi telecommunications company to help it spy on mobile customers using social networking accounts such as Twitter. The security researcher, who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike and who recently left Twitter where he worked on that company’s security team, said he [...]
Keep in mind, TIA wanted to solve the big data analysis issues only by solving the privacy issues in parallel.
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“As the Pentagon tentatively lays blame for hacking attacks at the feet of the Chinese military, the US Department of Homeland Security grapples with replacing four of its most prominent cybersecurity-focused officials. That includes Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity Mark Weatherford, as well as DHS second-in-command Jane Holl Lute. According to the New York Times, though, [...]
You’d be remiss if you posted to Twitter about all this without reading Poindexter’s TIA retirement letter.
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“Venture capitalists continue to toss millions at companies supplying technologies to defend cyber attacks. The latest example: an investment group led by Paladin Capital Group, Ascent Venture Partners and Intel Capital this morning announced $12 million in funding for PerspecSys.” Source:Venture capital gushes into security tech sector
BINGO! “@jmulvenon: Something fishy about leaks about US cyber spying right before we meet Xi Jinping to criticize China's cyber spying”
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“The short explanation: ‘We believe that Bitcoin represents something fundamental and powerful, an open and distributed Internet peer to peer protocol for transferring purchasing power. It reminds us of SMTP, HTTP, RSS, and BitTorrent in its architecture and openness.’” Source:FRED WILSON: Here’s Why I’m Investing In Bitcoin – Business Insider
You need to find the suspects of interest in the noise. Then it becomes a subject based investigation.
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“It may be the largest bank robbery in history: A crime ring is accused of stealing $45 million from financial institutions from around the world. But these criminals weren’t wearing masks or waving guns. They were armed with computers.” Source:Cyber-attacks behind possibly record-breaking bank heist – CBS News
For over a decade the problem has migrated towards behavioral analysis and transaction based pattern analysis.
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“China’s government and military have targeted US government computers as part of a cyber espionage campaign, a US report on China says. Intrusions were focused on collecting intelligence on US diplomatic, economic and defence sectors which could benefit China’s own defence programme, it says.” Source:BBC News – US accuses China government and military of cyber-spying
But the fundamental problem is we don’t have the complete list of suspects to monitor.
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“A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers” Source: Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years | MIT Technology Review
This NYT editorial asks how our security goals can be met by collecting all data instead of just suspect data.
http://t.co/RRLdoQu4Yq
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“Bitcoin, the four-year-old virtual currency that approximates cash on the internet, now powers an economy worth more than $1 billion and is widely admired for the technical sophistication that allows it to operate without a central authority. It got its own ticker on CNBC and inspired a legion of startups. And yet, we still don’t [...]
Rick Forno’s thoughts on yesterday’s news. Worth a read.
http://t.co/WIa92K34nA
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“I’ll be blunt: Money’s gotten buggy. People who don’t realize this might be in high finance — indeed, we’ve gotten very good at moving the revenues of entire generations within a precise number of femtoseconds — but what if you’re just trying to buy a smoothie?” Source: Bitcoin Is Not as Secure, Unregulated, or Lucrative [...]
Oh the fun one could have with this domain.
http://t.co/xMohcXBynO
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“Samsung phones running a secure version of Android have been approved for use by the US Department of Defense. The approval is the start of a process that will see many different types of mobile devices used by US soldiers.” Source:BBC News – US military approves Android phones for soldiers
Wait, I know that guy! ;-) “@AlanLLee: How does a former All-Pro #NFL safety become a CIA operative?
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“Bo Jiang, the Chinese national accused of spying on NASA, was formally charged in a Virginia court this week — not for conducting espionage, but for downloading porn and pirated movies to his computer. A former research contractor at NASA’s Langely Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, Jiang was originally indicted on March 20th, when federal [...]
When TIA got shut down, it doesn’t mean the tech challenge went away. It means it goes underground. Big difference.
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Dark Web DDOS | “An ‘underground’ website famed for selling drugs and other illegal items has been targeted in a cyberattack. It appears the site suffered from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday.” Source:BBC News – Dark web drugs site Silk Road knocked offline by hacker
By way of full disclosure for those followers that don’t know me. I worked on TIA and thought it was a great DARPA hard problem to solve.
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“The Dutch government has announced plans to give police far greater powers to fight cybercrime. Under a new bill, investigators would be able to hack into computers, install spyware, read emails and destroy files.” Source:BBC News – Dutch police may get right to hack in cyber crime fight
Wow. I really enjoyed this @JoeFinder novel. Looks like it is getting a great film treatment.
http://t.co/qLUZ1UfeVD
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“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning that a group of mostly Middle East- and North Africa-based criminal hackers are preparing to launch a cyber attack campaign next week known as ‘OpUSA’ against websites of high-profile US government agencies, financial institutions, and commercial entities. But security experts remain undecided on whether this latest round [...]
“But it’s just metadata!”
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“The group goes on to say U.S. financial institutions will be targeted for attack. ‘Do not take this as a warning,’ the post states. ‘You cannot stop the Internet hate machine from doxes, DNS attacks, defaces, redirects, DDoS attacks, database leaks and admin takeovers.’ The White House website and eight other federal government sites, plus [...]
For example - Federal employees with security clearances to be granted 10% salary increase. Full story here:
http://t.co/vXrAnm5p3u
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At what point are shareholders able to sue for negligence? That question has been haunting the cyber domain for a decade… “QinetiQ’s espionage expertise didn’t keep Chinese cyber- spies from outwitting the company. In a three-year operation, hackers linked to China’s military infiltrated QinetiQ’s computers and compromised most if not all of the company’s research. [...]
Why all the concern over funding Robotic writers? The bots have done a fine job on Twitter thus far.
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“We are Android users, and we are a pampered bunch. Android is such a flexible mobile OS that our Android devices often act as our personal genies granting our daily mobile wishes, making some of our mobile dreams come true. And, powerful as OEM-provided genies already are, a task control and task automation app such [...]
Hey @todayshow, maybe you should talk to @KristinPaget about that car lock story. She was talking about that issue years ago.
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“U.S. intelligence agencies traced a recent cyber intrusion into a sensitive infrastructure database to the Chinese government or military cyber warriors, according to U.S. officials. “ Source: Sensitive Army database of U.S. dams compromised; Chinese hackers suspected | Washington Free Beacon
Seems the plural use of the term “experts” in the title is inappropriate given it was one “expert” opinion.
http://t.co/lUFCoUjkHw
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If I were a criminal, I’d be doing this. “A new piece of malware propagating across Skype has been discovered that tries to convince the recipient to click on a link. What makes this particular threat different is that it drops a Bitcoin miner application to make the malware author money.” Source: New Skype malware [...]
A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986-2012
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At some point we need a grand reconciliation. The Intel Community has told us hundreds of billions of dollars are being lost, yet SEC reporting of losses is insignificant. We are our own worst enemy for diplomatic negotiations. “The 27 largest U.S. companies reporting cyber attacks say they sustained no major financial losses, exposing a [...]
