Oct 24
It’s easy to see how self-driving cars would benefit society. Traffic jams gone. Accidents reduced. Leisure time increased!
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Oct 23
Sometimes throwing money at problems works. As the Pentagon continues to struggle with cybersecurity
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Oct 18
A team of white hat hackers recently figured out how to break into the navigation technology used to track 400,000 shipping vessels worldwide. With this kind of access they could hypothetically make it appear as if a fleet of mystery ships was about to invade New York City. This is not good.
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Oct 16
For the past few years, the government’s been relentless about making the American people respect the importance of cybersecurity. Obama’s given speeches, written newspaper columns, and issued executive orders to drive that point home. This is serious business! So why are the Army’s own instructional videos so silly?
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Oct 16
Over the past couple of decades, the NSA has gone to crazy lengths to tap into computer networks of friends and enemies, alike. Backdoors, shell companies, repurposed hacktivists—they’ve tried it all, and to great success. That is, until Edward Snowden blew the lid off it all
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Oct 04
This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, but the NSA has reportedly been trying (and failing) to break into the Tor network for years. It turns out that Tor, a suite of tools to protect anonymity online, is just too secure as an infrastructure. Individual users, however, are less secure.
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Oct 04
Numbers show that malware on smartphones is a bigger and bigger problem every year, and it’s not like the phone companies are making it any easier. Would it really kill them to include a native virus scanner in iOS or Android? This is where the Skorpion comes in.
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Sep 30
The UK government announced last December that it was building a “Cyber Reserve” to protect itself, and now it has a few more details to divulge. Crucially, rather than merely focusing on defending the country from attacks, it’ll also have an “offensive capability” to help it act as a deterrent. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said Britain needs to be able to “strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.”
Although it’s a fair guess to suspect that other countries are honing offensive cyber skills too, the Financial Times reckons that the UK is the first nation to admit it’s doing so. According to Hammond, the strikes could be used to disable enemy chemical weapons, communications, planes, ships and hardware. As for the forces carrying them out, they could be given a budget of up to £500 million ($800 million). Work on the Joint Cyber Reserve is already underway, with reservist recruitment scheduled to start next month. If the required physical military test intimidates you, there’s nothing to worry about: a less rigorous version will be used to let those of us with desk-bound physiques protect (and fight for) the Queen.
Filed under: Misc
Via: Financial Times
Source: Daily Mail
Sep 27
If you take a step back and really think about it, we’re living in a pretty futuristic age. People are flying around on jetpacks. Everybody’s carrying around pocket computers. We go to space, like, all the time. We can control prosthetic limbs with our minds
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Sep 17
Cybersecurity firm Symantec took a major swipe at Chinese hackers on Tuesday, when it revealed the details of the group that’s behind some of the best-known attacks on the United States. Unlike earlier reports, however, Symantec’s report isn’t about the Chinese military. These are hackers-for-hire.
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