by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the decker-brigade dept. Earlier this week, the newly minted head of the United States’ Cyber Command team and NSA head General Keith Alexander told assembled lawmakers that the US has created an offensive cyberwarfare division designed to do far more than...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, MONEY, TECHNOLOGY
It’s one of the fundamental questions of cloud computing: Is it less expensive to run workloads in a public cloud than in an on-premises IT environment? The answer, says Charlie Burns, a researcher at boutique advisory firm Saugatuck Technology, is “a...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS
from the wrong-crowd dept. Of the 42,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) surveyed, just 20 were found to be responsible for nearly half of all the spamming IP addresses — and some ISPs have more than 60% of compromised hosts, mostly in Asia. Phishing Bad...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
Could impact how information is shared and what powers government has in collecting your digital files Last year after an outpouring of opposition, Internet advocates logged a victory when they defeated the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Now there are...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 17, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, POLITICAL, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the slavery-is-freedom dept. In an op-ed piece over at Technology Review, Bruce Schneier says that the cyber espionage between the U.S., China, and other nations, has been rampant for the past decade. But he also worries that the media frenzy over recent attacks...
