As I mentioned in yesterday's post, the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative was released by the White House late last week. The initiative is meant to be both proactive and reactive in nature.
Proactively, the government would like to have the most up-to-date anti-cyber terrorist actions in place to prevent a malicious group of users from accessing information or shutting down a grid of the internal infrastructure of the U.S. This basic goal is a large scheme project that is going to require a massive overhaul of several systems. Possible: yes! Probable: most likely. Expensive: you can bet on those $45 dollar hammers being part of that bill.
The Reactive aspect of the government is going to incorporate something known as counterintelligence (I know, government/military = counterintelligence, but that's not the point here). Counterintelligence in the cyber world is basically acknowledging a threat as soon as possible along with all of the affects of the threat and then finding a way to neutralize it. We would be "countering" an intelligent attack on the nation, hence counterintelligence. This is being spearheaded by a number of nerds, geeks, crackers, hackers and all around interesting people. As anyone that has worked in a specific area long enough with a keen sense of observation and a solid deductive skills can tell you, you start seeing trends. You see the results before they happen and you do what you can to react to those conditions.
Play any game, sport or puzzle long enough and you learn how the rules work and where they can be bent or broken. The same applies to a single computer, a network of computers or an entire infrastructure. The Internet follows the same rules and the malicious code that affects it tends to do the same. There is always an origination point. There are always a number of workstations that are used to deploy a code. The code tends to stay dormant in the recesses of a registry or folder on a workstation. The switch is activated and bam...a few million PC's start smoking, flashing red lights and spitting out bank account numbers. The Reactive people are meant to sniff this sequence of events out before the smoking, flashing and spitting happen.
My thoughts: might as well cover everything to prevent and stop all attacks. What are your thoughts?
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Friday, August 17, 2007
Huge Mistake for the FCC!
If anyone hasn't heard, the FCC has announced that they do not support the idea of a near complete, FREE, wireless broadband network throughout the United States!
What are they thinking?
Major technology companies like Google are in full support and ready to dish out the cash for this network to be established and maintained and the FCC has decided to block this.
I can understand the security risks considering that a vast majority of hackers have used public wireless sites such as coffeeshops and libraries to establish harmful attacks on websites. This can be curbed with strong security and a submission form for all IP addresses that will use the network.
(For those who find this hard to believe or completely stupid, keep in mind that major network card manufacturers are starting are to run into issues of a lack of address sequences and errors in extended digit addresses.)
So why block this wonderful concept? This idea alone will put a lacking communications system in the U.S., compared to other major countries, back on the map!
Looking at most of the EU (European Union), China, Japan and some countries in South America and the Middle East, you find every consumer with a cell phone that is capable of Internet browsing, e-mailing and the standard cell phone options. No matter where you in those countries, you have access to the Internet!
The reason for people in these countries only using cell phones, granted these cell phones can out perform just about every cell phone on the American market, is related to the fact that PC's are expensive in these countries and a landline connection to the Internet is as well!
Now put those networks in the U.S. and you are giving every individual with a laptop constant access to the Web and the ability to increase their productivity by an unimaginable number! The possibilities are endless and would promote a stronger work force through the fact that travel time would no longer mean downtime!
Way to go, FCC! You are part of the reason that America is on the downside of the growing globalized race. Research and then rethink your approach to this idea, it's worth it!
Let me know your thoughts, leave some comments, link up and subscribe. You know I appreciate it and I must thank all of you who have joined and enjoy the blog! My heart and writing goes out to you!
Have a great day!
What are they thinking?
Major technology companies like Google are in full support and ready to dish out the cash for this network to be established and maintained and the FCC has decided to block this.
I can understand the security risks considering that a vast majority of hackers have used public wireless sites such as coffeeshops and libraries to establish harmful attacks on websites. This can be curbed with strong security and a submission form for all IP addresses that will use the network.
(For those who find this hard to believe or completely stupid, keep in mind that major network card manufacturers are starting are to run into issues of a lack of address sequences and errors in extended digit addresses.)
So why block this wonderful concept? This idea alone will put a lacking communications system in the U.S., compared to other major countries, back on the map!
Looking at most of the EU (European Union), China, Japan and some countries in South America and the Middle East, you find every consumer with a cell phone that is capable of Internet browsing, e-mailing and the standard cell phone options. No matter where you in those countries, you have access to the Internet!
The reason for people in these countries only using cell phones, granted these cell phones can out perform just about every cell phone on the American market, is related to the fact that PC's are expensive in these countries and a landline connection to the Internet is as well!
Now put those networks in the U.S. and you are giving every individual with a laptop constant access to the Web and the ability to increase their productivity by an unimaginable number! The possibilities are endless and would promote a stronger work force through the fact that travel time would no longer mean downtime!
Way to go, FCC! You are part of the reason that America is on the downside of the growing globalized race. Research and then rethink your approach to this idea, it's worth it!
Let me know your thoughts, leave some comments, link up and subscribe. You know I appreciate it and I must thank all of you who have joined and enjoy the blog! My heart and writing goes out to you!
Have a great day!
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Monday, August 13, 2007
A Connection? Part 1
After reading an article from Herald Sun (found here), I was starting to notice a bit of trend in the way in which some of the major news events and online rumors are beginning to connect.
I'm doing my best not to be a conspiracy theorist, just a connector.
The national news channels, hacker websites, and overall online rumors have been toting that a terrorist attack is pretty much emminent over the summer. Well considering that the summer months are coming to an end faster than many of us would like, there seems to be something of interest on if anything will happen.
The government stuck their neck by stating this comment but could the hackers who busted into the U.N. website be part of this terrorist attack? It's possible and it seems as though they are capable of cracking some serious firewalls and security software as a team.
The concept of a fire sale from Live Free and Die Hard, the latest installment in the Die Hard series starring Bruce Willis, has basically been disproven but a small attack from a coalition of hackers could be something of concern for users.
The latest news is that Google now basically engulfs all the information you put into it and stores it on servers for a lifetime. It can be quite disconcerting that some of the hackers are beginning to brave the authorities to establish a name and a message at the sake of private companies, such as Google, and with that comes all of the information that is being centralized on their servers. Possible hard time for private companies, users and capitalism if a hacker were to access all of that? OH YEAH!
Again, I'm not trying to scare anyone or create a lot of attention in regards to this occurance, but it is a possibility so make sure you are paying attention to where your information goes and what is going on throughout the world of technology. That's what this blog is for right?
Have a great day!
I'm doing my best not to be a conspiracy theorist, just a connector.
The national news channels, hacker websites, and overall online rumors have been toting that a terrorist attack is pretty much emminent over the summer. Well considering that the summer months are coming to an end faster than many of us would like, there seems to be something of interest on if anything will happen.
The government stuck their neck by stating this comment but could the hackers who busted into the U.N. website be part of this terrorist attack? It's possible and it seems as though they are capable of cracking some serious firewalls and security software as a team.
The concept of a fire sale from Live Free and Die Hard, the latest installment in the Die Hard series starring Bruce Willis, has basically been disproven but a small attack from a coalition of hackers could be something of concern for users.
The latest news is that Google now basically engulfs all the information you put into it and stores it on servers for a lifetime. It can be quite disconcerting that some of the hackers are beginning to brave the authorities to establish a name and a message at the sake of private companies, such as Google, and with that comes all of the information that is being centralized on their servers. Possible hard time for private companies, users and capitalism if a hacker were to access all of that? OH YEAH!
Again, I'm not trying to scare anyone or create a lot of attention in regards to this occurance, but it is a possibility so make sure you are paying attention to where your information goes and what is going on throughout the world of technology. That's what this blog is for right?
Have a great day!
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