Random bits

30 April 2010

“Who can do a better job of protecting us from cyberthreats: private companies like Google, or Uncle Sam?”

Cyberwings. That’ll raise morale. Or not.

Computer security on the Death Star was a joke

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Random bits

23 April 2010

“in [Richard Clarke's] Cyberwar, like in real war, truth is the first casualty”

Cyberdeterrence through tattlling? This is ridiculous. Not bloody likely that will work against serious hackers. And not bloody likely that it would be done in cases where potentially state-sponsored hackers were caught.

Cybersecurity and National Policy

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Random bits

5 April 2010

“A low-complexity approach for reconstructing average packet arrival rates and instantaneous packet counts at a router in a communication network, where the arrivals of packets in each flow follow a Poisson process”

“It’s safe to say that when someone pays that much for a bug, they’re not going to tell the vendor to patch it.”

“Regulation is not the primary driver for new technology, new investment, or new training; the threats are”

Protecting Europe against large-scale cyber attacks

Would you have spotted this ATM skimmer?

DoE and power grid security

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