Feb 27
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news, politics
Mike McConnell on how to win the cyber-war we’re losing
By Mike McConnell
Sunday, February 28, 2010
The United States is fighting a cyber-war today, and we are losing. It’s that simple. As the most wired nation on Earth, we offer the most targets of significance, yet our cyber-defenses are woefully lacking.
The problem is not one of resources; even in our current fiscal straits, we can afford to upgrade our defenses. The problem is that we lack a cohesive strategy to meet this challenge.
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Feb 26
Times Enemynews, security insecure news, news, Pentagon, US DoD
This is a mistake. The people who truly oversee the gates should have fought harder to not only keep the ban, but to block more sites. The decision-makers simply do not understand what is going on and are trying to be people-pleasers. Security should trump this type of access. If you need the access, request it, go to a less secure network, go to a public network even, but do not drop the security standards across the board!
Pentagon Will Allow Troops Broad Access to Social-Media Sites
February 27, 2010, 12:02 AM EST
By Tony Capaccio
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Feb 26
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news
China Attacks on Google May Have Hit 100 Companies, ISEC Says
February 26, 2010, 10:04 PM EST
By Brian Womack and Katrina Nicholas
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — The Chinese cyber attacks that Google Inc. reported last month may have targeted more than 100 companies, a larger number than previously thought, according to security research firm ISEC Partners Inc.
ISEC said it discovered the additional targets while working with victims of the attack, which originated in China. Google initially alerted 30 companies to the problem, San Francisco-based ISEC said.
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Feb 26
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, news
China passes National Defense Mobilization Law to safeguard security
English.news.cn 2010-02-26 15:24:08
BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) — China’s top legislature passed the National Defense Mobilization Law on Friday after three readings, setting down rules on how and when the military should be mobilized in times of war or emergency.
The Law was approved at the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee’s three-day bimonthly session which ended Friday. President Hu Jintao signed a decree to publish the Law, which will take effect on July 1.
The 72-provision law sets out principles and organizational mechanisms for national defense mobilization, personnel and strategic material storage, and the prevention and relief of war-related disasters.
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Feb 26
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news
I suppose it is only fair to post some opinions from the “other” side as well…
Commentary: China cyber attacks against Google pure fabrication
English.news.cn 2010-02-24 00:23:06
BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and some other newspapers have published articles indicating that cyber attacks targeting Google and several other U.S. companies were from China. Such allegations are arbitrary and biased.
These articles take as evidence that hackers’ IP addresses could be traced back to two schools in China. However, it is common sense that hackers can attack by hijacking computers from anywhere in the world. This fact also explains why hackers are hard to be tracked down.
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Feb 24
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news
Another China vs USA which does not bode well for my team…
We Would Lose Cyberwar says former DNI Mike McConnell
This was written by Michael Cheek on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 11:33.
Cyberwar is increasingly entering into the mindset of policy makers. Earlier this month, DNI Dennis Blair outlined the cyber threat in his Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, saying that “The United States confronts a dangerous combination of known and unknown vulnerabilities, strong and rapidly expanding adversary capabilities, and a lack of comprehensive threat awareness.”
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Feb 24
Times EnemyChina, news, security China, insecure news, news
China denies cyber attacks on Google originated in two of country’s schools
By Aileen McCabe, Canwest News Service
February 24, 2010 7:54 AM
The Chinese government came out swinging Tuesday against allegations the cyber attacks that led Google to threaten to pull out of the world’s most populous nation originated in one of China’s top universities and at a little-known vocational school with suspected links to the military.
“Reports that these [attacks] came from Chinese schools are groundless, and accusations of Chinese government involvement are irresponsible and out of ulterior motives,” a Foreign Affairs spokesman told reporters.
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Feb 24
Times Enemynews news, search engines
Google Europe: A No Good, Very Bad Week
Ian Paul, PCWorld
Feb 24, 2010 8:13 am
This has not a good week so far for Google’s European operations. The search giant has been hit with official complaints of anti-competitive behavior from three companies based in the European Union, and three Google employees have been convicted of violating Italian privacy laws.
European Commission
Feb 24
Times EnemyChina, news al jazeera, China, news
China new web rules condemned
New regulations on internet use in China have been condemned by a media rights watchdog as an effort to tighten political control and a “disturbing step backwards” for online freedoms.
Under the new regulations announced on Tuesday that potential individual operators must submit their identity cards and photos of themselves.
The applicants are also required to personally meet regulators and representatives of service providers before being registered.
The country’s ministry of industry and information technology said the news rule was aimed at cracking down on pornography.
Feb 18
Javierseo budget, internet marketing, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, sem, seo
iCrossing released a paper on how important first impressions are. Here is an excerpt from their research page:
A brand’s position on search engine result pages (SERPs) is critical to driving site traffic. iCrossing analyzed natural search results for non-branded keywords for 10 clients and found that more than 95 percent of all site traffic from search engines comes from page-one results … Our findings also validate the trend towards longer keyword search strings by users and that there are opportunities for marketers to improve their page-one rankings by optimizing for keywords that show up lower in the results. In order to compete for today’s sophisticated online consumers, brands must have a deep understanding of how users arrive at their website, and the tools and know-how to optimize their site to stay in front of the consumer at every step of the purchase cycle.
Feb 18
Times Enemyseo China, insecure news, news, Taiwan
2 China Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks
By JOHN MARKOFF and DAVID BARBOZA
Published: February 18, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO — A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation.
They also said the attacks, aimed at stealing trade secrets and computer codes and capturing e-mail of Chinese human rights activists, may have begun as early as April, months earlier than previously believed. Google announced on Jan. 12 that it and other companies had been subjected to sophisticated attacks that probably came from China.
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Feb 16
Times Enemynews news, politics, US DoD
Gay Guardsman Still Drills With Unit
February 13, 2010
Stars and Stripes
A New York National Guard Soldier who last year announced his homosexuality on national television is again drilling with his unit, The New York Times reported Friday.
Lt. Dan Choi, who has been away from his unit since coming out publicly last March, said he participated in exercises last weekend at the urging of his commander, Lt. Col. John Andonie.
The unit, the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, is preparing for a possible deployment to Afghanistan in 2012.
Feb 15
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news
China leads the world in hacked computers, McAfee study says
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 15, 2010
More private computers were commandeered by hackers for malicious purposes in China in the last quarter of 2009 than in any other country, including the United States, according to a new study by an Internet security company.
These “zombie” computers are often grouped into “botnets,” or armies of infected computers that can be used to send spam e-mail or attack Web sites, according to McAfee, a Silicon Valley security firm. The company, which said it collects information about Internet-based threats that target more than 100 million computers in 120 countries, said that in the last three months of 2009, about 1,095,000 computers in China and 1,057,000 in the United States were infected.
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Feb 13
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news
Cyberattacks from China threaten world’s businesses
Few firms admit they are targets
By Joe McDonald • Associated Press • February 13, 2010
BEIJING — Google’s accusation that its e-mail accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem that few companies will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks.
The hacking that angered Google Inc. and hit dozens of other businesses adds to growing concern that China is a center for a global explosion of Internet crimes, part of a rash of attacks aimed at a wide array of targets, from a British military contractor to banks and chemical companies to a California software maker.
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Feb 13
JavierChina, rants and raves China, imposters, posers, rants
I just read an article by Roger A. Grimes entitled, Is the Chinese Government Really Behind Cyberattacks?: Circumstantial evidence alone should not condemn Beijing of sponsoring hacking of U.S. companies. From the subtitle I was interested in what angle this guy was going to take, so i read on … only to be sadly disappointed in identifying yet another poser.
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Feb 13
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news
Worries grow about America’s cyber security
Feb 13, 2010 (The Kansas City Star – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX)
– The deputy secretary of defense says “the cyber threat” is the one thing that keeps him up at night.
The director of national intelligence says such attacks pose a severe menace to the “fragile system behind the country’s information infrastructure.” The president says, “America’s economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cyber security.” This is not some hypothetical danger, they point out, but a war that has been joined already. No less a digital dominator than Google has felt the need to enlist the National Security Agency to help it ward off Chinese hackers.
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Feb 12
Javiersite news SEOMire.com, wordpress
Looking for a new Wordpress Theme … or an old one, but just something other than the K2 we have had for a while.
As was our desire with K2, we want simplicity. Of course, the geek may come out and with it feature creep, but we should be able to justify the noise. Hopefully we can keep it simple stupid.
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Feb 12
Times EnemyChina China, politics
Some articles were putting Obama and the Dalai Lama on a similar level, this is just nonsense. Here are a few articles about this latest Chinese issue.
Obama’s plans to meet Dalai Lama
Saibal Dasgupta, TNN, 12 February 2010, 07:29pm IST
BEIJING: China on Friday reiterated its warning to the US president Barack Obama that meeting the Dalai Lama would cause serious damage to Sino-US relationship. The Chinese foreign ministry issued the renewed warning after the White House in Washington announced a firm date for the meeting between the Tibetan leader and Obama.
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Feb 12
Times Enemyrants and raves politics, racism, rants
I have never been a proponent of Black History Month. I believe in true equality. Celebrating “Black” History Month is an astounding display of racism. I defy the “black community” to promote a White History Month, or a “Native American Month,” or some other “race.” It simply will not happen any time soon, at least not until the “black community” gets the chip off its shoulders.
As far as that is concerned, the term Native American holds some logical truth to it. Whereas, terms such as “African American,” or “Mexican American” or other such racist labels are mostly complete nonsense.
Feb 11
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news, politics
China Risks Backlash With Iran Sanction Refusal
Thursday, February 11, 2010
BEIJING — China’s refusal to sign on to new sanctions against Iran risks prompting a backlash affecting its increasingly complex interests abroad, experts say.
Recent remarks by President Barack Obama citing China’s opposition, and unusually tough talk from Russia — long a sanctions skeptic — has spotlighted Beijing’s refusal to back such steps as a way of pressuring Iran over its nuclear program.
Nikolai Patrushev, the chief of Russia’s Security Council, said Tuesday that Iran’s recent actions “have raised doubts among other nations, and these doubts are quite well-founded.” His comments appeared to indicate that Russia is increasingly warming up to the U.S. sanctions push.
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Feb 10
Times Enemysecurity insecure news
Hacker ‘Mudge’ gets DARPA job
February 10, 2010 4:00 AM PST
by Elinor Mill
Peiter Zatko–a respected hacker known as “Mudge”–has been tapped to be a program manager at DARPA, where he will be in charge of funding research designed to help give the U.S. government tools needed to protect against cyberattacks, CNET has learned.
Zatko will become a program manager in mid-March within the Strategic Technologies Office at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which is the research and development office for the Department of Defense. His focus will be cybersecurity, he said in an interview with CNET on Tuesday.
Feb 10
Times EnemyChina, security China, insecure news, ISN
‘Aurora’ Attacks Still Under Way, Investigators Closing In On Malware Creators
Researchers find ‘markers’ associated with authors of Aurora malware used in attacks against Google, others
Feb 10, 2010 | 02:27 PM
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading
The targeted attacks that hit Google, Adobe, and other U.S. organizations are still ongoing and have affected many more companies than the original 20 to 30 or so reported by Google and others.
Security experts who have worked on forensics investigations and cleanup of the victim organizations from the attacks that originated out of China say they are also getting closer to identifying the author or authors of the malware used to breach Google and others.
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Feb 09
Javiersite news SEOMire.com
SEO Spam article archived on SEO Mire.com. I wanted to archive the article, but since it was from 2006 it immediately disappears. This post should nudge some SE’s as to its existence.
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Feb 09
Times EnemyChina China, insecure news, ISN, spying
Dongfang "Greg" Chung leaves Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana in 2009
Chinese-born engineer gets 15 years in spying for China
Dongfan ‘Greg’ Chung, who worked with Boeing and Rockwell International, was accused of providing information on the space shuttle and Delta IV rocket.
By Patrick J. McDonnell
February 9, 2010
A Chinese-born aerospace engineer who had access to sensitive material while working with a pair of major defense contractors in Southern California was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for acquiring secret space shuttle data and other information for China.
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Feb 08
Times Enemysecurity China, insecure news, politics
China Flag Patch
The poor souls at Black Hawk Safety Net had to be in the Chinese radar at a time when China needs to act tough. I say “act,” because that is pretty much what China is doing. Again, anyone who has been keeping an eye on China’s forays into cyberwarfare activities can easily spot this pathetic tough-guy stance China seems to be taking. From my perspective this is politics, smoke and mirrors.
Fast Company mentions if this one site has such a huge audience that there must be other sites like it still in operation. As ironic as it may seem, some quick Google searches will sift some of these out.
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