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Analysis of Political Web Hacks

2008-05-09 14:00:47 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...political weapon is the ease at which it may be used against them at some point in the future. Politicians cant change their public voting record, their former associations or last nights speech (i.e., the past), but their website could be hacked in the future Imagine this scenario: candidate A gets hacked. Candidate B makes a big production...
 
Tags: hacks, web site hacks, affect voter opinion, weaker, weaker position, future, analysis, kenneth belva, political weapon
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-02 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...political, and that people become terrorists for political reasons. This is the "strategic" model of terrorism, and it's basically an economic model. It posits that people resort to terrorism when they believe -- rightly or wrongly -- that terrorism is worth it; that is, when they believe the political gains of terrorism minus the political...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-07 05:48:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...political, and that people become terrorists for political reasons. This is the "strategic" model of terrorism, and it's basically an economic model. It posits that people resort to terrorism when they believe -- rightly or wrongly -- that terrorism is worth it; that is, when they believe the political gains of terrorism minus the political...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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Learning GovieSpeak: The Plum Book

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2008-07-17 12:53:00 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...political appointees. Congress publishes the Plum Book after each presidential election, so for those of us who remember our civics lessons in high school, that would be every 4 years, and the last one was published in 2004 In fact, you can see the last edition here . Caveat: its dry, like the uber-trocken Franken white wine that grows in the...
 
Tags: plum book, agency cisos, political, political appointees, cisos, cost center inside, public policy kick, gs-scale, germanyso dry
 
 
 
 
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The Importance of Advance Planning in Executive Protection

2008-10-12 20:10:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...political situations, etc Far too often I am approached by security persons (and not even all are qualified/trained in executive or close protection)who find out that we may have overseas work and want to be included. On some occassions, those requesting to be included on the detail did not even have a current passport If you are serious...
 
Tags: detail, security detail, current political situations, advance, situations, 2nd annual conference, gain hisher admiration, agents, routes
 
 
 
 
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A breach that hits home with 2008 presidential candidates

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2008-03-22 13:16:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...political figures such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain were all affected. It is expected and assumed that there are more affected individuals, but due to the sensational nature of events, the full extent of the breach is not known Types of Data It is not clear whether the employees saw anything other than the basic personal...
 
Tags: stanley subcontractor employees, subcontractor employees, subcontractor, confidential information, information, information security, stanley, personal information, employees
 
 
 
 
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Vote but Verify

2007-09-07 19:56:11 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...political blogger Thomas Belknap recently railed about HR 811 , interpreting its requirement of a voter-verified durable paper ballot as a small-minded banning of an attractive future of modern networked reliable electronic voting machines. I could not resist posting my disagreement into the comments on his blog, and perhaps I am going to...
 
Tags: all-electronic systems, systems, all-electronic, paper audit trail, all-electronic paperless approaches, security geek consensus, research topic, consensus, nist
 
 
 
 
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Threats to the Democratic Process

2008-04-13 10:59:21 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...political processes Interestingly enough, Electoral-Vote.com , a site maintained by Dr. Andrew Tanenbaum , Professor of Computer Science at the Vrige University in Amsterdam, reports (a link to a news story)that the US presidental election can be hacked This is not science fiction folks, it is simply the political andsocialrealities of our...
 
Tags: political, democratic political processes, post, science fiction folks, tothis post, cybersecurity threats for2008, vrige university, tim bass, threatsto cybersecurity
 
 
 
 
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Chinese Cyber Attacks

2008-07-14 07:08:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...political coordination, they're likely to take more risks, do more stupid things and generally ignore the political fallout of their actions. In this regard, they're more like a non-state actor. So while I'm perfectly happy that the U.S. government is using the threat of Chinese hacking as an impetus to get their own cybersecurity in order,...
 
Tags: chinese, chinese military ignores, chinese military, government, chinese government, military, hacker tools, hackers, anti-chinese forces
 
 
 
 
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Dems were for Web 2.0 before they were against it

2008-07-15 20:57:29 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...political expression on air More ominous still would be the precedent of the U.S. government designating official external websites imagine having the power to select official newspapers that would have to hew to House regulations and be as free as possible from political or commercial advertising. Given the ubiquity of blogads, most...
 
Tags: house, house regulations, house project, internet, web, internet adapt, select official newspapers, long-defunct fairness doctrine, representative capuano