You’ve probably already seen and forgotten, but some tidbits that caught my eye as I have been trying to catch up with developments over the […]
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Very Un-Serious
You know, I was perfectly willing to believe that there was something skewed about this story – much ado about nothing – but then I […]
E-Jihad
The U.S. government has notified U.S. private financial services of a call by the al-Qaida terrorist network for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock […]
Preparing for the “Wake Up Call”
Despite the emphasis placed on IT security in recent years, federal agencies are not testing their security controls with any consistency or timeliness, and as […]
DOE Security Lapse Update
The latest compromise of nuclear weapons secrets occurred at the Los Alamos National Laboratory after a worker stole design information she downloaded onto a removable […]
Ambling Towards Snow Crash
An interesting development in another information-centric industry that is in need of re-tooling: According to internal documents provided to Wired News and interviews with key […]
The More Things Change…
With regard to hard problems: Fifty years ago today the Soviet Presidium overturned its earlier decision to pull its troops out of Hungary in the […]
FID: Fear, Incompetence & Doubt
Dr. Stephen Haag spends upwards of 80 hours each week on his computer, mapping out terrorist attacks. Haag, an expert in emerging technologies, believes the […]
9/11 Redux
A nice analysis of the airborne terror threat then and now by Shane Harris in National Journal. The broad point to take away is the […]
Getting Wiki With It
Someone besides a General in Omaha talking about operating in the 21st Century: The intelligence community can learn from the behavior of ant colonies to […]