Earlier in the month, the Online Safety and Technology Working Group within the NTIA submitted their report entitled Youth Safety on a Living Internet, along with their recommendations to the Dept of Commerce and members of the House and Senate. Here is a summary of the objectives of the report which is take directly from [...]
Cyberwar – Halted ’03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk – Series – NYTimes.com This came across Twitter this morning. If you have any interest in cyberwarfare and the implications, you should read this. According to the article, this was scrapped, but yet many aspects are still classified. The plan was to use [...]
Reports are coming out this morning of distributed denial of service attacks coming from North Korea and targeting South Korean government and business web sites. I heard one report which stated that US government sites are also being targeted. I’ve never really thought USA Today was a bastion of InfoSec news, but they have a [...]
Computerworld reported last week that more people have been indicted on E-Rate fraud charges. Basically they have been accused of stealing money that was intended to help schools and libraries with technology for education. It is important that you know your vendors. Many vendors will approach schools with proposals for solutions they say qualify for [...]
