“If
you drop a frog in boiling water, he will leap out. Put him in room
temperature water and slowly raise it to a boil and you have...
boiled frog.”
Eugene
Kaspersky And Mikko Hypponen Talk Red October And The Future Of Cyber
Warfare At DLD
What is the consequence of cyber
warfare slowly becoming increasingly common? That was the basic
question that guided the DLD keynotes of Eugene
Kaspersky, the co-founder of security company Kaspersky
Lab, and F-Secure‘s
chief research officer Mikko
Hypponen.
… Asked about the highly targeted
and personalized Red October attack, both Hypponen and Kaspersky
currently seem to assume that it was a
state-sponsored attack, especially given that it took a
good amount of traditional espionage to target the embassies,
European Union agencies and space and nuclear research centers around
the world the malware attacked over the last few years. Still where
it came from remains unclear, especially because it attacked sites in
a multitude of countries. This, too, leads Kaspersky to believe that
it wasn’t developed by Russia. Red October, after all, attacked a
number of sites in Russia. In his view, it could be from Israel, a
hacktivist group, or, he speculated, maybe the secret services of
different countries were customers of a group of sophisticated
hackers.
As for cyber warfare in general, one
thing Hypponen especially stressed is the difference between cyber
espionage and cyber warfare. Spying, said Hypponen, is not warfare.
“Warfare is something different,” he said. “It’s when you
start using malware, viruses and backdoors to target our critical
infrastructure.”
Perhaps
there is no safe way for an individual to “blow the whistle?”
"In what appears to be a
more-and-more common occurrence, Ahmed Al-Khabez has been expelled
from Dawson College in Montreal after he discovered a flaw in the
software that the college (and apparently all other colleges across
Quebec) uses to track student information. His original intention
was to write a mobile app to allow students to access their college
account more easily, but during the development of his app he
discovered 'sloppy coding' that would allow anyone to access all of
the information that the system contains about any student. He was
initially ordered to sign a non-disclosure agreement stating that he
would never talk about the flaw that he discovered, and he was
expelled from the college shortly afterward."
Even
ranting liberal comics are noticing? What is this world coming to?
Kevin Cirilli reports:
Liberal comic Bill
Maher said Friday that Americans aren’t losing their Second
Amendment rights — just “all the other ones,” and then compared
the country to a strip club without strippers.
“It’s not your
Second Amendment rights that are under attack — it’s all the
other ones,” Maher said on HBO’s “Real Time” on Friday,
citing online privacy laws, search warrants and airport screenings.
Read more on Poitico.
Best
model ever or not, there looks to be a demand.
Kim Dotcom's new
"Mega" cloud service appears to be a hit. According to
Dotcom over 1
million have signed up for their free 50 gigabytes of storage.
Although that is about
1% of the Dropbox user base, it's not a bad start. From the
article: "Mega quickly jumped up to around 100,000 users within
an hour or so of the site's official launch. A few hours after that,
Mega had ballooned up to approximately a quarter of a million users.
Demand was great enough to knock Mega offline for a number of users
attempting to either connect up or sign up for new accounts, and
Mega's availability remains spotty as of this articles' writing."
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