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Paper on Information Warfare
I often see a lot of discussions on Information Warfare. Today I just stumbled across a paper published by RAND called Strategic Information Warfare – A New Face of War – from my first impression definitely worth reading Roger Read More...
Posted 09 July 09 08:27 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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After Estonia now Kyrgyzstan
There is definitely proof that during war times, armies add a virtual component to the “real life” war. Additionally we have seen the attacks to Estonia, where nobody really knew where they originated from (I do not mean the country but whether a government Read More...
Posted 30 January 09 01:49 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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How to circumvent Privacy Laws
As you all know, most jurisdictions allow individuals to ask for data collected by an organization (being it a company or a governmental organization). A lot of countries have Data Protection Commissioners that look into what companies and more often Read More...
Posted 20 August 08 09:10 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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SANS Commits $1 Million to Fight Cybercrime in Developing Countries
You know that I criticize SANS from time to time. Especially when it come to their handlers, I am convinced that they are creating the problem rather than solving it. This time I have to say that I am impressed as they are helping developing countries Read More...
Posted 24 May 08 04:25 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Analysis of the Estonian Attacks
I just read a paper on the political analysis of the Estonian Attack. If you are interested reading my post on my other blog (as the analysis is not really technical but interesting) there you go: Analysis of the Estonian Attacks Roger Read More...
Posted 21 May 08 06:25 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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How long does it take to hack a Power Plant?
I start to get scared – more and more. Back in September I blogged on Critical Infrastructure Protection – Live which shows what would happen if somebody would be able to tamper with power generators. Now, during RSA there was a guy called Ira Winkler Read More...
Posted 14 April 08 09:19 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Analysis of Cyber-Terror
The US Military just released a pretty interesting in-depth article on Cyber-Terrorism and the different aspects of it. Even though it has a little bit more than 40 pages, it is worth reading: Cyber Operations and Cyber Terrorism Roger Read More...
Posted 13 March 08 12:21 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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DHS Security Level on your Webpage
A blog reader sent me a mail informing me that he wrote a small application that links the DHS security level to your webpage. I added it to my news section and it looks pretty interesting. If you want to do that as well, here is the link: http://www.milestactical.com/hlsa.html Read More...
Posted 01 March 08 05:24 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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How critical are the Undersea Cables?
OK, I think I need to take this up a little bit as well. Let's look into what happened over the last few days. I think up to now we ended up with five cables cut in the Middle East. So, there are a lot of theories who was actually damaging those cables. Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 11:05 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Was the plain crash caused by hackers?
If Al Qaida really has these capabilities, I am starting to get scared when I have to fly (which happens to me pretty often): There are reports that the plan crash last week could be caused by hackers attacking the plane before take-off in Beijing…. Al-Qaida Read More...
Posted 24 January 08 08:47 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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What is more important: Security or Privacy?
This is basically a very interesting and pretty fundamental question for the society. After 9/11 the US changed the way they work significantly. Just as an example: Airlines had to give the US government information about passengers flying to the US that Read More...
Posted 17 January 08 08:40 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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2-year old terrorist
Well, this is not new: Government agencies with insecure websites. Actually I did not want to blog on this (you find the article about an insecure TSA-website here ) but then I drilled into the comments and there is one that actually shocked me (well, Read More...
Posted 16 January 08 08:43 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Fight against Terror and how it can be abused
I am not completely clear how much a lot of the measures we see (like the fluid restrictions on planes, the forced violation of privacy laws by airlines by having to transmit PII to the US, ...) really bring. On the other hand we definitely see some pretty Read More...
Posted 06 November 07 08:14 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Rumors about Cyber-Terror Attack, November 11th
This is an interesting phenomenon on the Internet: There is one source publishing the statement that they picked up an Internet announcement by Al Qaeda that they will start a cyber attack on November 11 th : DEBKAfile Exclusive: Al Qaeda declares Cyber Read More...
Posted 01 November 07 11:50 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Analysis of the cyber-capabilities of AlQaeda
I blogged already several times about Cyber-Terrorism. I think it is important to try to keep the pulse of these developments and to understand what the terrorists are capable of doing. There is an article about a recent event, where somebody tried to Read More...
Posted 01 October 07 09:55 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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