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Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity

Jul 19

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Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity
Intel, defense specialists fell for ruse in test

By Shaun Waterman
8:07 p.m., Sunday, July 18, 2010

Call her the Mata Hari of cyberspace.

Robin Sage, according to her profiles on Facebook and other social-networking websites, was an attractive, flirtatious 25-year-old woman working as a “cyber threat analyst” at the U.S. Navy’s Network Warfare Command. Within less than a month, she amassed nearly 300 social-network connections among security specialists, military personnel and staff at intelligence agencies and defense contractors.

Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need for clearer cyberwar policies

Mar 19

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Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need for clearer cyberwar policies
By Ellen Nakashima – Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 19, 2010

By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom.

“We knew we were going to be forced to shut this thing down,” recalled one former civilian official, describing tense internal discussions in which military commanders argued that the site was putting Americans at risk. “CIA resented that,” the former official said.

Bureaucrat Who Allegedly Hired ‘Jason Bournes’ Speaks

Mar 18

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This guy is an idiot.  Maybe there is some other objective for running his mouth, but most likely not.  Either way, this guy is acting the fool.  Mark this guy as a pariah, pull his clearance, and cut all ties.

Bureaucrat Who Allegedly Hired ‘Jason Bournes’ Speaks
By Nathan Hodge Email Author
March 18, 2010; 11:15 am

The Pentagon official who allegedly boasted of running his own private team of “Jason Bournes” is finally speaking out.

DARPA to build military App Store, battlefield 3G

Mar 04

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DARPA to build military App Store, battlefield 3G
Android wins war for battle phones, iPhone and MS lose
By Lewis Page
Posted in Mobile, 4th March 2010 11:40 GMT

Not content with merely soliciting bids for smartphone apps useful to the military “and the national security community more generally”, the Pentagon’s tech hothouse now plans something resembling a military App Store – and has unveiled plans to deploy civilian mobile coverage onto the battlefield.

In an announcement issued yesterday, DARPA added to its recent “Mobile Apps for the Military” plan by outlining a further “Transformative Apps” scheme. First on the war-boffins’ shopping list is their own App Store, or something very like one:

Pentagon Will Allow Troops Broad Access to Social-Media Sites

Feb 26

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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

Army crafts blueprint for cyberwarfare

Sep 11

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Army crafts blueprint for cyberwarfare
By John Milburn – The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Sep 10, 2009 13:01:17 EDT

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The Army is developing its blueprint for battling attackers in cyberspace, the latest writing of a major military playbook aimed at staying ahead of increasingly sophisticated enemies.

Similar to its recently finished manual on the use of electronic warfare, the Army is crafting new concepts for a high-tech battlefield. The 86-page document, an early draft of which was obtained by The Associated Press, tries to account for everything from monitoring the passing of information between enemies to stopping computer hacks from taking on entire networks of machines.

Pentagon Source Says China Hacked Defense Department Computers

Sep 04

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Pentagon Source Says China Hacked Defense Department Computers

WASHINGTON — The Chinese government hacked a noncritical Defense Department computer system in June, a Pentagon source told FOX News on Tuesday.

Pentagon investigators could not definitively link the cyber attack to the Chinese military, the source said, but the technology was sophisticated enough that it indicated to Pentagon officials — as well as those in charge of computer security — that it came from within the Chinese government.

The source’s information directly contradicts Chinese claims earlier Tuesday, in which officials called the allegations “groundless.” The Chinese government, officials said, opposes cyber crime.