Marc Ambinder reads the text of a bill Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) intends to release today to clarify an organizational structure within the Department of Homeland Security for safeguarding civilian cyber-infrastructure. He focuses on this provision:
The President must notify Congress in advance about the threat and the emergency measures
Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander is up before the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning. (As I type, he’s giving his opening statement.) He’s the head of the National Security Agency and he’s been nominated to become the first-ever head of the military’s new Cyber Command. And he’s giving some indication More…
Speaking of cybersecurity, Naval blogger Galrahn has a fascinating take on last week’s big Wall Street Journal story about insurgents in Iraq using an off-the-shelf $26 hack to intercept video feeds from U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles. It’s actually an opportunity, he explains:
From a cyber warfare perspective, the
How long before Glenn Beck calls Howard A. Schmidt a czar? Also, who is this guy, anyway?
Mr. Schmidt is the chief executive officer of the Information Security Forum, a nonprofit computer security trade association based in London. He has served as chief information security officer at eBay and
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City to lay out the Obama administration’s new counterterrorism strategy. Her speech is ongoing, but I’ve got a copy of her remarks, and there’s some interesting stuff. The Wall Street Journal’s preview reports that More…
Now that the head of U.S. Strategic Command, Gen. Kevin Chiles, is warning that the United States is vulnerable to cyberattacks “across the spectrum,” August Cole and Siobhan Gorman observe in The Wall Street Journal that the defense industry is moving intently to get a piece of cybersecurity More…
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