Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Tim Bass
Like most of you, I am still in complete shock over Northwest Flight 253 and how our government still cannot connect-the-dots in simple intelligence matters to protect us from harm.
In this case, the well-respected father of a radical-Islamic Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reached out to the US Embassy and other organizations in an honorable [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Tim Bass
Around 10 years ago I worked as Technical Director for SAIC as a member of an elite group of Internet security experts. I was responsible for a number of very large global financial corporations (well, actually two). The leader of our division, called The Center of Information Protection (The CIP), was a very intelligent [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Tim Bass
Great and powerful organizations can be handicapped by their own greatness. The shear magnificence, power and strength of the USAF also can be it’s own weakness at times. This is certainly true in the area of communications, air power and cyberspace.
The communications mission of the Air Force is highly interconnected with it’s core mission [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Tim Bass
I have blogged (here and on the (ISC)2 blog) about potential security issues in the rising use and hyper marketing of Twitter, so I found this CNN story (which only scratches the surface of the risks) of interest, Twitter message could be cyber criminal at work.
“Cyber criminals have been targeting Twitter users by creating thousands [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Tim Bass
It is not common knowledge, but we began discussing the need for a cyber command in the mid-1990s; but it was the Langley Cyber Attack in 1997 that started the momentum toward making a future cyber command a reality. I don’t want to rehash well-documented historical events in this post. Instead, I will focus [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Tim Bass
As someone who, as a consultant, proposed a Cyber Command for the USAF over a decade ago, it is good to see the DOD moving in that direction with the proposed US Cyber Command. Cyberspace is a critical operational dimension. I first referred to this in a 1997 MILCOM paper co-authored with Lt. Col. [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by Tim Bass
Back in the days when I was happily spending time on the operations floor in computing centers, we always observed that the greatest security threats to our systems were well-intended operators who make simple mistakes. No hacker or criminal ever brought down a network like the bored network guy on the late shift who decided [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2009 by Tim Bass
One year ago I penned Event Processing in Twitter Space, and today parts of the net are buzzing about Twitter.
In a nutshell, Twitter is a one-to-many communications service that uses short messages (140 chars or less). Following on the heels of the blogging phenomena, Twitter has been primarily used for microblogging and group communications.
Twitter, and [...]
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