“ The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between [...]
It’s up to the full Senate now to evaluate the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 after the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved an amended version of the bill June 24. The bill, sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Thomas Carper (D-Del.), would allow [...]
Clearly, I have a limited readership, which has now dwindled even more, but I feel it necessary to offer an explanation for the dearth of recent posting: I’m in the middle of a transition from Massachusetts to Washington, DC. I’m relocating there to begin work in Cybersecurity. Once I’ve settled into my job and find [...]
Memorial Day is day is a time to honor all of our fallen in the military. And, I thought, I’d help honor the sacrifice of Military bloggers as well as Gold Star family members who share the loss of their loved ones through blogging. In August 2009, PV2 Bryce E. Gautier a Combat Medic who was based [...]
One September 3rd, 2009, 22-year old Specialist Jordan Shay was killed in Baqubah, Iraq. A week and a half before he died, he tweeted: “back in iraq for round two, probably won’t fire a shot in anger all tour. sucks.” A few days later, Shay updated his blog. He wrote about the Sweet Tarts he [...]
Ms. Rothtastic, A) I understand your problem with Comcast. The company’s notions of what once was (and in their delusion) is what academia did to me and my ideas. B) I cannot wait until I am able to see you once again. C) I watched the pilot episode of Glee with you this summer well [...]
OMAHA, Nebraska – Members of the military’s new Cyber Command insist that they’ve got no interest in taking over civilian Internet security – or even in becoming the Pentagon’s primary information protectors. But the push to intertwine military and civilian network defenses is gaining momentum, nevertheless. At a gathering this week of top cybersecurity officials [...]
1959: A meeting at the Pentagon lays the foundations for the computer language that will later be known as COBOL, which goes on to become a mainstay of business computing for the next four decades. COBOL, short for Common Business-Oriented Language, was one of the earliest computer languages. It was also, along with Fortran, one [...]
What a long, strange trip it’s been. Apple’s market capitalization officially passed Microsoft’s Wednesday afternoon, making the Cupertino, California, company — for the first time — the largest technology company in the world. With a market cap of $241.5 billion versus Microsoft’s $239.5 billion, Apple also became the second-largest company on the S&P 500, according [...]
