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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 296 days ago
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http://www.ioc.ornl.gov/csiirw/-------------------------Fourth Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIRW-08) will be held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, Bldg 5100, May 12-14, 2008.-----Theme: Developing strategies to meet the cyber security and information intelligence challenges aheadWorkshop Homepage: http://www.ioc.ornl.gov/csiirw-----In keeping with the workshop format, we are not seeking full pape read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 294 days ago
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Not your father's botnetResearchers have unearthed two previously undetected botnets that exhibit sophisticated new capabilities that could significantly advance the dark art of cyber crime.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 293 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/new_botnet_advances/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco13th February 2008Researchers have unearthed two previously undetected botnets that exhibit sophisticated new capabilities that could significantly advance the dark art of cyber crime.One of them, dubbed MayDay by security firm Damballa, uses new ways to send and receive instructions to infected machines. One communication method uses standard HTTP that is sent through an organization's web proxy. That allows the malw read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 292 days ago
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Forwarded from: *Hobbit* <hobbit (at) avian.org>Breathless articles like this just piss me off. It isn't about whose botnet is bigger or more secretive or what its C2 protocol is. It's really about the fact that they're permitted to exist at all, let alone successfully send huge volumes of spam.If the ISPs would actually grow a pair one of these days and curtail untrusted customer netblocks full of known-infested machines from sending ANY direct SMTP traffic to anywhere but the ISP's own authorized read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 288 days ago
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http://www.dailynews.com/ci_8291447By Rick CocaLA Daily NewsStaff Writer02/17/2008He told the 911 dispatcher he had killed someone in the house and more bloodshed would follow.When SWAT units responded to the Southern California home from where the dispatcher thought the call originated, they confronted a man with a weapon and readied their assault rifles.But unlike this month's Winnetka SWAT standoff - in which Edwin Rivera killed his father, two brothers and LAPD Officer Randal Simmons - this man was inn read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 275 days ago
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151806-1.htmlBy Ben BainFCW.comFebruary 29, 2008The Homeland Security Department is getting ready to lead foreign governments, corporations, states and federal agencies on a second round of cyber war games.During the second week of March, nine states, four foreign governments, 18 federal agencies and 40 private companies will participate in Cyber Storm II a weeklong simulation designed to better prepare the players for cyberattacks. DHS, FBI and the Defense Department are amo read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 275 days ago
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Forwarded from: Frederick Sheldon <sheldon (at) ieee.org>CALL FOR PAPERSCSIIRW-08http://www.ioc.ornl.gov/csiirwFourth Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research WorkshopOak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, May 12-14, 2008Sponsored by Federal Business Council, Inc.In cooperation with ACM and EUROSIS___________________________________________________IMPORTANT DATES in 2008:Mar 03 Extended to Mar 17: abstracts (up to 3 pgs) submittedMar 17 Extended to Mar 24: author notification (vi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 273 days ago
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Military wants to fortify cyberspace against ChinaUncle Sam wants you ... to become a cyberspace warrior.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 265 days ago
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08072/864263-28.stmBy Joyce GannonPittsburgh Post-GazetteMarch 12, 2008Greg Wilkinson, vice president, public and government affairs, at Nova Chemicals Corp., is spending much of his time this week playing cyber war games -- on company time. So is Betsy Mallison Bialosky, manager, corporate public relations, at PPG Industries.The communications specialists at those two local chemical companies have their bosses' blessings to "play" because Nova and PPG are participa read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 265 days ago
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http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/12/1427252By Roblimo SlashdotMarch 12, 2008Here are the answers to your questions for Major General William T. Lord, who runs the just-getting-off-the ground Air Force Cyber Command. Before you ask: yes, his answers were checked by both PR and security people. Also, please note that this interview is a "first," in that Generals don't typically take questions from random people on forums like Slashdot, and that it is being watched all the way up read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 258 days ago
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The Bush administration is planning to tap a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to head a new inter-agency group charged with coordinating the federal government's efforts to protect its computer networks from organized cyber attacks. Sources in the government contracting community said the White House is expected to announce as early as Thursday the selection of Rod A. Beckstrom as a top-level adviser based in the Department of Homeland Security. Beckstrom is an author and entrepreneur best...Please click on the