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2.11.2011

Dirty Tricks, Cyber-style

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ThinkProgress is reporting that the law firm of the US Chamber of Commerce (an NGO) hired several cyber-security firms to help them sabotag...
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2.10.2011

"Night Dragon" stalks big oil

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According to a new report by McAfee (pdf): "Attackers using several locations in China have [waged] attacks against global oil, gas, ...
2.01.2011

Internet 'kill switches'

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Shutting off the Egyptian Internet has (finally) drawn attention to a US Senate bill that seeks to permit the same sort of thing here. CNET ...
1.30.2011

Science enters the network age

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Writing at SEED magazine, John Wilbanks has drawn attention to the transformation currently taking place in academic publishing, namely the...

The Tweet of Damocles

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Clearly, social media are expanding dialogue throughout the world, and have the potential to radically reduce the costs of grassroots organi...
1.28.2011

How Egypt pulled the plug

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GigaOM has an interesting piece on how Egypt Switched Off the Internet . "Plenty of nations place limitations on communications, somet...
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1.27.2011

Egypt: 404

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CNET and many others are reporting that all Internet traffic in Egypt has gone offline. I hadn't realized we would be importing the I...
1.22.2011

Sedition in a box

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Symantec just released its Mid-Term Internet Security Threat Report , and surprise, surprise - the Wild West is getting wilder. It used to b...
1.11.2011

Nerdcore could rise up

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Estonia could get elevated - NCS is reporting that the country has formed the Computer Emergency Response Team of Estonia ( CERT-E , also ...
1.09.2011

US strategy to prevent leaks, leaked

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TechSpot News is reporting that MSNBC has received a memo detailing the US' government strategy to prevent leaks in a "post-Wikil...
8.05.2010

Censorship, Digg?

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Alternet has posted an article about an effort by self-identified conservatives to censor Digg rankings . For those unfamiliar with Digg , i...
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