InfoBore 22
Well, here comes another list of stuff I find interesting. Could be a long one, given I’ve been away, and many of you will spot links that are, oh, at least a couple of hours old. I know barely anyone reads them but this is as much an aide memoire for me as anything else…
Securing Against Botnets – Kevin Coleman, Defense Tech
Should Your Organization Add DDoS Attacks to its Tactics Toolkit? – Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia, Open Media Boston
Halted ’03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk – John Markoff & Thom Shanker, New York Times
Defense Stalwarts Building Cybersecurity CSI – Michael Cooney, Network World
Defense Department Eyes Hacker Con for New Recruits – Robert McMillan, IDG
New Ways to Analyze Digital Intel – FBI
Climate Change, Cyber Warfare are World’s Toughest Challenges – Rizal Raoul Reyes, Business Mirror
Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man – John Markoff, New York Times
Smart Machines: What’s the Worst That Could Happen? – MacGregor Campbell, New Scientist
Evolution’s Third Replicator: Genes, Memes, and Now What? – Susan Blackmore, New Scientist
Military May Ban Twitter, Facebook as Security ‘Headaches’ - Noah Shachtman, Danger Room … but they may get Google Voice instead
Meet April, the Bot Who Learns To Speak As She’s Spoken To – Wagner James Au, New World Notes
McAfee Warns Spam, Trojans and Botnets Skyrocketing – David Kravets, Threat Level
Robots to Invade World of Warcraft? DEFCON Hacktivists Create New Breed of Automated Characters – Mark Harris, Tech Radar
Squid Defense Against DDoS – Richard Stiennon, ThreatChaos
Spime Networks and the Future of Intelligence Collection – Roderick Jones, MetaSecurity
Breaking Military Twitter News: U.S. Army Astronaut Colonel Timothy Kopra First to Tweet from Outer Space – Milblogging.com
White House ‘Cyber Czar’ Resigns: Let’s Not Replace Her – Michael Tanji, Danger Room
i read them, appreciate them, and find them useful. thanks from here. i hope you keep issuing them, please. they bore down, and are never boring. onward.
Hey, thanks David. Glad they’re as useful to you as they are to me. With my dreadful memory I find them invaluable as a resource. I’m constantly mining them for stuff that I vaguely remember. On that basis, I have every intention of continuing them. Glad you got the ‘bore’ reference. If I had the time I’d actually write some substantive posts on some of the stuff that crosses the radar too… Cheers.
Tim,
I´ll admit that I was a bit disappointed recently when Infobore was all there was to see on yr site. However, as I have sharply reduced my own “blogging time” since the start of the banking crisis while office time has gone up to 12 hrs+ on average I find that the overview you provide quite invaluable.
Btw, you mention that you re technically unemployed – nothing untoward I hope.
I agree. I’ve had very little time to do anything recently, let alone blogging, so the InfoBore posts have stood in for any substantive content. If nothing else, they serve as place-holders for further work.
Unemployment status soon to be rectified. All in hand, thanks for asking!