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U.S. Cybersecurity Report Available

Posted by michael on from the batten-down-the-firewalls dept.

Kaelem writes "Kevin Rose put up a copy of the report Cybersecurity for the Homeland (pdf), due to be released tomorrow. It talks about some interesting things, like expanding the US-CERT website as well as funding for colleges to develop cybersecurity curriculum."

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  1. Which department? by wcitechnologies · · Score: 5, Funny

    More like from the U.S. Depeartment Of We're Not Going To Tell You Anything You Didn't Already Know About Security

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    1. Re:Which department? by canuck57 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      More like from the U.S. Depeartment Of We're Not Going To Tell You Anything You Didn't Already Know About Security

      No one cares about security until they get burned. Once burned the battle cry goes for awhile and fizzles as most don't give a rats ass about security beyond looking politically correct. It is why so many sites and users get hacked.

      And here is a hint, most get hacked from the inside out, that is - some twit loads a spyware or malicious program and claims ignorance when it happens. More like carelessness but management often overlooks it.

      Safe computing is like safe sex, use some precaution and don't be a slut and download everything you can click on.

  2. Wide range of topics ... by ProfaneBaby · · Score: 5, Interesting
    They're definitely focusing on a wide range ... something I didn't expect to see in the report was the DDoS / zombie bot armies:


    Just as 1920s gangsters evolved into organized crime syndicates, a sophisticated command and control network is emerging within the Internet with agreed-upon boundaries of control and "gangs" working for a "boss." These modern criminals and terrorists often don't know or meet the crews who carry out the actual cyber attacks, making it even more difficult to track and prosecute them.


    Definitely something worth investigating, just wondering what a few billion in research dollars is going to reveal - hopefully more than "it's a problem that's difficult to fix" report.
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  3. Are our lives really changed? by joeljones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only person who is tired of the rhetoric "Since September 11th, each and every American's life has changed"? For those outside of the goverment, and particularly the military, has it really? Certainly we have mangled the Bill of Rights beyond recognition, but am I the only one whose reaction to the 2nd attack on the WTC was "well, it finally happened?" And the notion that using commercial airliners as weapons was unthought of? Given that Tom Clancy is a best selling author, the odds that no one in our security infrastructure read about that scenario is close to zero.