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The recent phone hacking scandal, where reporters from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World were accused of illegally accessing the voicemails of thousands of people including politicians, members of the royal family, the families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, and terror victims, has grown into a sordid, drawn-out affair resulting in the closure of the newspaper, the arrest of editor Rebekah Brooks, and the resignation of the head of London's … [Read more...]
The cyber security e-mail lists, Twitter streams, Facebook messages and chat circuits were abuzz today over a new report released from the Brookings Institution. This piece, titled "Pirates of the ISPs: Tactics for Turning Online Crooks into International Pariahs," was authored by Noah Shachtman. Noah is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution 21st Century Initiative. Many of us in the tech community also know him well from his many contributions … [Read more...]
On 28 September 2011, FedCyber.com will present a one-day Government-Industry Cyber Security Summit to be held at the Newseum in Washington DC. The FedCyber.com Government-Industry Summit will bring together thought leaders who know the cyber mission in a venue designed to enhance our collective understanding of the threat, build on existing strategies to mitigate challenges, and leverage the nation's greatest technologies to enhance our defense in … [Read more...]
CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com, has just published a white paper providing context, tips and strategies around Hadoop titled “Hadoop for Intelligence Analysis.” This paper focuses on use cases selected to be informative to any organization thinking through ways to make sense out of large quantities of information. Lead author of this study … [Read more...]
Editor's Note: We just updated this post to make better use of Scribd, a great capability for online sharing of documents. CTOlabs.com, a partner site of CTOvision.com, has just published a new guide meant to help further the awareness of the many new security features being fielded in today's computer hardware. This guide, titled "Leveraging Hardware Design to Enhance Security and Functionality," provides context, tips and strategies designed to … [Read more...]
VoltDB is a company fielding a technology designed by DBMS pioneer Mike Stonebraker. It is designed to address challenges of performance limitations in existing systems, and also provides significant potential cost savings, giving it the virtuous position of having more functionality at a lower cost. In conversations with Stonebraker I learned a bit more about the VoltDB approach and would like to share a bit of context here. First, for background, … [Read more...]
It’s late Monday morning when your computer security department notices that a suspicious message has been emailed to most of the email addresses at your company. It contains a malicious PDF that exploits a new vulnerability that came out over the weekend. The patch hasn’t been applied to the company workstations yet, and it’s too little, too late by the time the email goes out telling everyone not to click on the links. By the time inboxes are … [Read more...]
Bob Gourley recently wrote about the dangers of a Maginot Line approach to network security in "The Maginot Line of Information Systems Security", based on of the paper by Dr. Rick Forno. In the Second World War, the French relied on the Maginot Line, a string of fortifications along the German border, to repel invaders. Feeling secure behind fortified walls, they missed the developments in technology and tactics that allowed the Germans to simply … [Read more...]
I just received an update from data base research and technology pioneer Michael Stonebraker and will be using insights from the conversation to inform a few coming posts here at CTOvision.com (including a coming one on his newest pursuit, VoltDB), but first wanted to provide a digital introduction to Michael. I first met him in 2005, but had heard of him for years before. Michael has a history of thinking through the hard problems in data and then … [Read more...]
I recently received an invitation from WashingtonExec to attend a Flash Summit on Innovation in Government. This event will be held Thursday 21 July at 5pm till 730pm. Attendance is limited, for more info please send a note to info@washingtonexec.com and JD Kathuria will get you more info. But here is a tickler: This event will be a rooftop reception which aims to inspire and recognize innovation in government. It includes a keynote presentation … [Read more...]