InfoBore 20

OK, back in the saddle for a couple of days before going away again. Completely snowed under with deadlines and more things to do than there are hours in the day. Here are a few tasters from across the interwebs:

Government Is Falling Behind on Cybersecurity, Report Finds – Joe Davidson, Washington Post

A Contest To Train Cyber Combatants – Robert Lemos, MIT Technology Review

Olympics – Cyber Attack Seen As Emerging Threat For London 2012 – Avril Ormsby, Reuters

Online Playgrounds: Virtual Worlds For Children – Economist

Cyberwarfare Is For Individuals, Not States – Marcelo Rinesi, Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies

Click, Click … Counting Down to Cyber 9/11 – John Arquilla, San Francisco Chronicle

Is It Cyber War? – Richard Stiennon, ThreatChaos

Britain Opts Out of NATO Cyber Centre – Defence Management

Political Machines – Lebbeus Woods

Cyber Warfare: Call In the Generals, March Out the Peons – Sam Liles

Annotated Bibliography: Twitter and the Iranian Election Protests – Max Forte, Open Anthropology

The Economics of Botnets – Viruslist [via The Technocrat]

To Absent Friends… – Internet Haganah