Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Cell on Wheels (COW)
March 23rd, 2010Placing the New Zealand Internet Filter Story in Perspective
March 15th, 2010I rarely need to do this, but please stop submitting this story. Dozens of you guys think I have somehow missed this. I didn’t. Why didn’t I post it? First of all, given everything that’s out in the open about what governments are doing on the Internet, is this story even relevant for Cryptogon readers? […]
DoD Requires Hacker Certification
March 5th, 2010I don’t see this as an ominous development, or, put another way, any more ominous than the baseline level of ominous developments. It’s par for the course. As anyone who has ever been responsible for a network will tell you: You’ll either become like the opponent (on the network), or be owned by him. Or […]
Cybersecurity Bill to Give President New Emergency Powers
February 28th, 2010Via: The Hill: The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation. According to an aide familiar with the proposal, the bill includes a mandate for federal agencies to prepare emergency response plans in the event of a massive, nationwide cyberattack. The president would then […]
Fur Really Flying Over Latest Telecom XT Outage
February 25th, 2010UPDATE: NOW EMERGENCY SYSTEM FAILS IN AUCKLAND Put a fork in it. Via: New Zealand Herald: Emergency services are experiencing difficulties with the 111 system, with some callers unable to reach police. Police said the problem appeared to be confined to the Auckland area, and Telecom was working on the problem. National Radio reported the […]
Cyber ShockWave
February 19th, 2010I’m quietly looking into the Joe Stack situation, and in the process, I came across the story below, which I had somehow missed. Via: AFP: Former top US officials staged a digital doomsday simulation on Tuesday in which a huge cyberattack crashes cellphone networks, slows Web traffic to a crawl and plunges major cities into […]
Google as Experimental ISP; Will Offer One Gigabit Per Second Connections
February 11th, 2010Via: Google: We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive […]
Anonymous Takes Down Australian Parliament and Other Government Websites with Distributed Denial of Service Attack
February 10th, 2010Via: AFP: A shadowy group of cyber-activists blocked key Australian government websites on Wednesday to protest against controversial plans to filter the Internet. The main government website, www.australia.gov.au, and parliament’s www.aph.gov.au were both affected along with the sites for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy. Web activists had earlier warned the sites […]
Family Spends $5000 Per Year on Screen Related Services
February 10th, 2010You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. —Morpheus, The Matrix Don’t breathe the air, don’t drink the water, don’t eat the food, but, being saturated with endless electronic […]
FBI Wants Records Kept of Web Sites Visited *Yawn*
February 7th, 2010I’m posting this to let those of you (who are submitting this) know that I don’t understand why you find it noteworthy. With all the posts I’ve done on network surveillance, I’m getting story submissions about retention of URLs? Guys, splash some cold water on your faces, break out the smelling salts, wake up. It […]
