InfoBore 14
US Ignored Warnings of Cyber Attack – Kevin Coleman, Defense Tech
Al-Qaeda’s Revamped PR Strategy – Rob at Arabic Media Shack
The Posts That Never Were – Thomas Hegghammer, Jihadica
Facebook Gives Hatred a Hand – Andre Oboler, The Guardian
The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain? – Hadley Leggett, Wired
Communities Beyond Geography: Phone Phreakers – Johnny Ryan, Assorted Materials
Three Reasons Why U.S. Cyber Security Sucks – Mike Tanji, Danger Room
WoW and Second Life Don’t Tell the Whole MMO Story – Wagner James Au, GigaOM
China Halts Memory-Wiping Electric Shocks For Net Addicts – Joe Fay, The Register
Banned Outfit Using Latest Technology to Outwit FIA – Internet Haganah
The Complexity of Government 2.0 – Alexander Schellong, Complexity & Social Networks Blog
Nazarbaev Signs Internet Law – Michael Hancock, Registan.net
Essentials of Complexity-Theoretic Stand-Up Comedy – Scott Aaronson, Shtetl-Optimized
and another odd one:
International Data Group News Service (Martyn Williams, “UK, NOT NORTH KOREA, SOURCE OF DDOS ATTACKS, RESEARCHER SAYS “, 2009/07/14) reported that the U.K. was the likely source of a series of attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the U.S. and ROK , according to an analysis performed by a Vietnamese computer security analyst . The results contradict assertions made by some in the U.S. and ROK governments that the DPRK was behind the attack. Security analysts had been skeptical of the claims, which were reportedly made in off-the-record briefings and for which proof was never delivered. The attack server has an IP address in the 195.90.118.x range, Nguyen said. The address is registered to Global Digital Broadcast in the U.K. The company could not immediately be contacted.
Interesting, isn’t it? I hadn’t seen that report but I did post this earlier at CTlab.