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Complexity Is the Enemy

2008-12-17 05:43:13 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...enemy of life, but complexity is the enemy of stasis. Our problem is that we've pretty much equated security with stasis, and it's slowly getting us into trouble. In the financial world, like in our world, there's zero doubt that we humans can build a system more complex than we can understand, much less control, to the point of no surprises....
 
Tags: complexity, world, digital world, enemy, financial world, dan geer expounds, existence proof, stasis, feedback loops
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...enemy combatants" and disappeared into the legal void created by the Patriot Act, all six pleaded guilty to aiding Al Qaeda and were sentenced to at least seven years in prison In other cases, the use of informants has led the government to flirt with outright entrapment. In Brooklyn, a Guyanese immigrant and former cargo handler named...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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The Cyber Storm II Cyber Exercise

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2008-04-03 12:29:03 by HASH0x8b6d0a8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...enemy without fighting with him, that's what offensive cyber warfare is all about, even if you take people's information warfare concept as an example. It's a government tolerated/sponsored activity, whereas the government itself is suverting the enemy without fighting him, but forwarding the process to their collectivism minded citizens. The...
 
Tags: cyber warfare, passive cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, offensive cyber warfare, cyber warfare exercise, warfare, econonomic warfare, cyber warfare attacks, broader information warfare
 
 
 
 
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Spy bots that share information being built for military

2008-05-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472eb4 in Network World on Security
 
A group of U.S. Marines hunker down beside a building, enemy fire coming at them from somewhere up ahead. One soldier reaches into his pack and pulls out a few robots that look like large bugs. The bots fly down the street, sending back images that show where the enemy troops are hiding, how many there are and what weapons they're using
 
Tags: marines hunker, enemy fire, soldier reaches, enemy troops, bots, images, street, bugs, ahead
 
 
 
 
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A Botnet of U.S Military Hosts

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2008-05-14 07:42:27 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...enemy, and wheres the enemys communications and network infrastructure at the first place? Its both nowhere, and everywhere, and you cannot DDoS everywhere, and even if you waste a decade building up the capability to DDoS everywhere, your adaptive enemy will undermine the resources, time and money youve put into the process by avoiding...
 
Tags: ddos, ddos bandwidth capacity, network infrastructure, adaptive enemy, infrastructure, enemy, enemys communications, hacktivist crowd, resources
 
 
 
 
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Gonzo: Two Thumbs In and Up

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2008-07-17 10:10:12 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...Enemy for the rest of our lives It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but...
 
Tags: life, security, sought security, personal security, national security emergency, software security, expensive war, war, hunter
 
 
 
 
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AF083-022: Visualization for Command and Control of Cyberspace Operations

2008-10-18 00:01:42 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...enemy forces may be unavailable or delayed, reducing blue force effectiveness) that must be visualized, explored and tasked from within his C2 tools Decision makers will greatly benefit from innovative visualization tools that can improve their understanding of all aspects of the Cyber domain. These aspects include 1) the current state of the...
 
Tags: visualization, information landscape, information, information operations, operations, visualization techniques, develop visualization techniques, cyber-attack, cyber-attack operations
 
 
 
 
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Marksmen, on your marks!

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2008-12-31 00:49:52 by Mike Bond in Light Blue Touchpaper
...enemy can bring their guns to bear. From these choice spots, they engage the enemy within seconds, and despite moderately large maps which are a few hundred metres across, up to a third of the kills in a 3-5 minute game do take place in the first 15 seconds. Of course there is skill in figuring out what to do next (the top 1% of players...
 
Tags: game, minute game, players, players distinguish, destroy game, collision detection players, game dev studio, low-level game algorithms, level
 
 
 
 
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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...enemy without fighting is the most skillful. " Here's a summary of the study Two senior PLA Air Force colonels wrote "Unrestricted Warfare", presented here in summary translation, to explore how technology innovation is setting off a revolution in military tactics, strategy and organization. "Unrestricted Warfare" discusses new types of...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise