Here are some articles and blog posts worth reading plus the related comments. Previous summaries as well.Islamic Terrorism from Clearguidance.com to Islamicnetwork.com -- very interesting reading regarding Daniel Joseph Maldonado, and a visionary quote "It takes a community to make a terrorist and it only take a handful of people to build and maintain such communities."
Former DuPont senior scientist pleads to corporate espionage -- fresh case of corporate espionage. As always I find it a totally biased opinion with companies falling in love with their trade secrets, even coming up with numbers as high as $400M
Information warfare, psyops, and the power of myth -- decent article on the topics in today's world of war on ideologies
Glitches plague NSA's effort to track terrorists online -- Tracking terrorists online courtesy of the NSA's Turbulence program is a another $500M failure to understand the dynamics of cyberterrorism. Thankfully, there're third-party organization the NSA is definitely listening to and obtaining its intelligence giving the lack of ethnical diversity in the U.S intelligence community, one that is crucial nowadays. The cuttest quote of the day "Inside the agency, Turbulence's sensitive activities are sequestered behind passwords known to few."
Panda Software Releases Malware Radar, the First Automated Malware Audit Service -- not necessarily the first as pretty much all vendors offer online malware scan, but it's a product line extension based on recent licensing deals of Panda with other vendors
Another Malware protection engine becomes Malware enabler engine -- when the security solution ends up the security problem itself
Hackers target the home front -- great example of targeted email attacks, makes you wonder two things - what's the chance the attacks aren't really systematic but basically rather regular malware infection attempts, or the emails of top management or anyone @bank.com have been available to attackers wanting to take advantage of the insecurities of their home PCs
'Storm' Worm Touches Down on IM -- Storm Worm piece of malware switching vectors, interesting, but a fact demonstrating the novice experience of the malware author, as if it were an experienced one, the feature would have been build in the very first releases compared to mass mailings only
Russia's Ivanov slams U.S. missile shield plans in Europe -- the proposed U.S missile shield in Eastern Europe would give Russia the excuse to do something naughty like this
Cyber officials: Chinese hackers attack 'anything and everything' -- Chinese script kiddies generating noise so that the advanced and government backed espionage attempts remain to be sorted through the noise - predictable pattern
Cuban Information Minister Blasts US Digital Espionage -- Cuba to the U.S - Stop using OSINT and data aggregation techniques against us, as you see, we don't know how to Google
The Next Big Ad Medium: Podcasts -- unless measurability improves it's all shooting into the dark for advertisers, and ad budget allocation dream come true for publishers
Text of Email to all Yahoos -- Yahoo's CFO to all Yahoos, now if an average Yahoo is able to understand the corporate talk I'll bring the beer
Google Agrees to Buy Adscape -- Google's getting into the emerging in-game advertising market. Would a gaming company find that the lack of ads in its game can turn into a competitive advantage in the long-term?
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang to donate $75 million to Stanford -- never forget who you are and where you came from. Jerry Yang is donating $75M to Stanford University which as a matter of fact is largely financed by ex-disruptors, and yes tuition fees. They even hold quite some Google shares
