This is rich: Chinese Official Accuses Nations of Hacking. Of course we all know how honest the Chinese government is. For example, the Tiananmen Square massacre is something they try to hide on their side of the Great Firewall. This is an obvious attempt to turn the tables on the recent reports of Chinese hacking [...]
War Walking in Washington D.C.
Sep 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This is an interesting article from a couple of days ago. Dark Reading editor, Tim Wilson, walked around D.C. with the CSO of AirDefense looking for exposed wireless networks. The story's hook was their attempts to penetrate the White House's network. However, their exploits around D.C. really demonstrates how vulnerable wireless networks are. See Hacking [...]
Pseudo-Secrets
Aug 14, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Last week, Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, a Chinese national from Beijing with Canadian citizenship, pleaded guilty to providing restricted software products to China. His guilty plea came at the cost of 34 of the original 36 counts against him. His maximum jail time will be 24 months–I suspect fewer. What struck me most about this story [...]
More on M-13 and Illegal Immigration
Aug 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Michelle Malkin is writing about the link between M-13 and the execution of the Newark students: Newark execution murders update: The MS-13 connection. I touched on illegal immigration and M-13 a couple of weeks ago. I have this sinking feeling that, if you will excuse me borrowing a post 9/11 media catch-phrase, the dots are [...]
More Government Technological Incompetence
Aug 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I ended up working a lot this week. Stupid day job interfering with my other activities. However, I wanted to comment on two stories highlighting why our government doesn't have a clue when it comes to information security. The training and education for federal employees must really suck when it comes to information security. And [...]
USF Students Had Pipe Bombs
Aug 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
It appears that Mohamed and Megahed were not carrying fireworks as CAIR claimed so ludicrously yesterday. Their claim that "two white boys" wouldn't be treated this way is inaccurate to say the least. I have known ATF agents in the past, and I know they arrested many a "white boy" for pipe bombs. The agent [...]
South Carolina Explosives Suspects are USF Students
Aug 6, 2007 By Leave a Comment
It's now being reported that the two individuals picked up in South Carolina are USF students: 2 USF students arrested with explosives. Yousef Megahed, 21, and Ahmed Mohamed, 24, are facing explosives charges. The two men are USF students. The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office reportedly found a bomb and bomb-making materials — including chemicals, fuses [...]
Voting Machine Standards Become Stricter in CA
Aug 6, 2007 By Leave a Comment
It appears that Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State, has had enough of empty vendor promises when it comes to security: California to recertify insecure voting machines. In conditional recertification decision documents issued by the state, Bowen outlines an extensive set of requirements that the electronic voting machine vendors will have to meet before their [...]
Progress on National Security Leaks
Aug 6, 2007 By Leave a Comment
It's good to know that there is an investigation into the "wiretapping" leaks: Report: FBI Searches Home of Attorney in Warrantless Wiretap Program Case. FBI agents searched the home of former Justice Department lawyer Thomas Tamm last week in an effort to determine who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media, [...]
Unrest by Parkway Drive