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Counterterrorism Blog: Spime Networks and the future of Intelligence Collection

timcoleman — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:44:43 +0000

Counterterrorism Blog: Spime Networks and the future of Intelligence Collection.

Singularity University Names Graduate Summer Program Students

timcoleman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:14:32 +0000

Singularity University Names Graduate Summer Program Students.

Cyber News

timcoleman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:29:05 +0000

Researchers Try to Stalk Botnets Used by Hackers – NYTimes.com

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., are creating what is in effect a vast digital petri dish able to hold one million operating systems at once in an effort to study the behavior of rogue programs known as botnet

via Researchers Try to Stalk Botnets Used by Hackers – NYTimes.com.

Google Donates 50 Android Phones to Singularity University

timcoleman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:24:57 +0000

YouTube – Google Donates 50 Android Phones to Singularity University.

Singularity University

timcoleman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:13:38 +0000

YouTube – Singularity University.

Peter Diamandis, Ray Kurzweil, Salim Ismail, Bruce Klein and Susan Fonseca-Klein introduce Singularity University. Music courtesy of Philip Sheppard and Universal Production Music.

An “Intel Star” TV ad — Sponsors of Tomorrow

timcoleman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:12:36 +0000

YouTube – An “Intel Star” TV ad — Sponsors of Tomorrow.

Purer Water

timcoleman — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:53:39 +0000

Purer Water Made Possible By Sandia Advance: By substituting a single atom in a molecule widely used to purify water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a far more effective decontaminant with a shelf life superior to products currently on the market.http://tinyurl.com/lxqvof

Cyber News Today

timcoleman — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:47:38 +0000

‘Smart Grid’ Raises Security Concerns: Electric utilities vying for $3.9 billion in new federal “smart grid” grants will need to prove that they are taking steps to prevent cyberattacks as they move to link nearly all elements of the U.S. power grid to the public Internet. The requirements from the Energy Department come amid mounting concern from security experts that many existing smart-grid efforts do not have sufficient built-in protections against computer hacking, such as new “smart meters”…, grid-management software and other equipment. … [S]ecurity researchers have found that these devices often are the weakest link in the smart-grid chain. … Indeed, at this week’s Black Hat, the world’s largest cybersecurity conference held annually in Las Vegas, researchers…are slated to demonstrate a computer worm that spreads by taking advantage of the software update feature built into a prevalent brand of smart meters. The worm could in theory give the attackers who launched it the ability to very quickly sever tens of thousands of homes from the smart grid. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072702988.html

U.S. seeks ‘top guns’ for cybersecurity: [A] consortium, including the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Air Force Association and the SANS Institute, today announced an initiative to identify, train and find jobs for students interested in cybersecurity. The U.S. Cyber Challenge initiative will bring together three cybersecurity competitions for high school or college students and launch new in-person competitions…. The initiative is a response to a growing concern that the U.S. will not have enough cybersecurity professionals in coming years…. Some experts have said the U.S. has about 1,000 world-class cybersecurity experts when it needs 20 to 30 times that many….http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135944/