Source: Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post
A secure communications channel set up to prevent misunderstandings that might lead to nuclear war is likely to expand to handling new kinds of conflict — in cyberspace.
Tag Archives: Cyber Security
In U.S.-Russia deal, nuclear communication system may be used for cybersecurity
April 26, 2012 – 5:08 pm
“Cybersecurity” bill endangers privacy rights
April 19, 2012 – 9:53 am
Source: Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica
The controversy over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act intensified on Tuesday when a White House spokeswoman warned Congress not to pass “cybersecurity” legislation without “robust safeguards to preserve the privacy and civil liberties of our citizens.”
New non-profit ISP will be surveillance resistant?
April 11, 2012 – 12:06 pm
Source: Declan McCullagh, CNet
Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance.
Anonymous wants to take down the Great Firewall of China
April 11, 2012 – 11:49 am
Source: Emil Protalinski, ZD Net
The group has hacked and defaced hundreds of Chinese government, company, and other general websites to the point where China even acknowledged the attacks.
Android engineered to enable data harvesting
April 11, 2012 – 11:38 am
Source: Paul Roberts, Threat Post
In this question and answer session, Brodeur corresponds with Threatpost about his ongoing work studying the Android operating system, and how a combination of loose application coding and insecure design makes Google’s Android a boon for advertisers and others who want to harvest data on mobile users
RIM concedes to India on BlackBerry message access
April 6, 2012 – 5:43 pm
Source: Sanjay Singh, Daily Mail
The government took a call in the matter more than 18 months ago. Now, it has deciphered the mechanics of enabling security agencies to police the one million-strong exclusive preserve of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) users in India.
NSA Director says agency should not monitor private networks
March 28, 2012 – 2:40 pm
Source: Dennis Fisher, Threat Post
Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of both NSA and the Cyber Command, said in a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that U.S. officials are “seeing a great deal of Department of Defense related equipment stolen by the Chinese.
CPJ’s Danny O’Brien on Cyberdialogue 2012
March 22, 2012 – 6:02 pm
Source: Danny O’Brien, Irish Times
In Toronto this week, I sat with what they like to call “multiple stakeholders” and we talked about the future of the internet, as you do.
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Helmi Noman interviewed for Wharton School article
March 5, 2012 – 5:52 pm
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Helmi Noman was interviewed for a recent Wharton School article entitled, “Watch What You Type: Social Media a Tool for Revolutionaries, and Increasingly, for Security Agencies”
Business crime thrives in the cloud according to RCMP
February 13, 2012 – 2:50 pm
Source: Stanley Tromp, National Post
Canadian police are struggling to combat business crime in the cloud computing world, an elusive and little-controlled realm that criminals can exploit to steal money and personal identities.
