Random bits

“Google said Tuesday that it may pull out of China because of a sophisticated computer network attack originating there and targeting its e-mail service and corporate infrastructure, a threat that could rattle U.S.-China relations, as well as China’s business community…[the hackers] appeared to be after information on weapons systems from defense firms and were seeking companies’ ‘source code’”. More from the WSJ. As Richard Bejtlich asks, has China crossed a line? Google will stop censoring search results, which is yet another huge implication for Chinese internal and foreign affairs.

DDoS stats from Arbor

Adobe gets attacked

“Complex software-hardware systems are not proved correct [in 1976], they are not proved correct today, and will not be proved correct in the future. If I am wrong why do we need cyber-security? Why do systems get attacked and broken into every day? Why is security a multi-billion dollar a year industry? I think the answer is obvious.”

National Cyber Range awards

Entropy, entropy, entropy…

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