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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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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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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
 
 
 
 
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Homeland Security Cost-Benefit Analysis

2008-07-17 06:43:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...political science professor John Mueller. Titled "The Quixotic Quest for Invulnerability: Assessing the Costs, Benefits, and Probabilities of Protecting the Homeland," it lays out some common send premises and policy implications. The premises: 1. The number of potential terrorist targets is essentially infinite. 2. The probability that any...
 
Tags: potential targets invulnerable, potential targets, targets, protection, invulnerable, protection measures, paper, paper attempts, potential terrorist targets
 
 
 
 
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On Government Employees, Culture, and Survivability

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2008-07-21 13:46:05 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...political scene. The Government culture is a silent culture. Thats why every day amazing things happen to promote security in the Government and youll never hear about it on the outside One of the reasons that I started blogging was to counter the naysayers who say that FISMA is failing and that the Government would succeed if they would just...
 
Tags: government, government employees, government security, culture, government culture, security, typical government employee, promote security, silent culture
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...political or competitive gain Some other interesting news items have appeared in the recent past 1. Germanys respected weekly, Der Spiegel , reported that China was thought to have hacked into the computer systems of Germanys chancellery, as well as systems at three ministries, infecting the networks with spy programs. The alleged attacks...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies