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Air Force suspends training flights of PC-38 cyberspace aircraft The crash was the second in two weeks involving a PC-38, following an April 23 hacking incident in which two pilots' avatars were killed when their PC-38 operating system crashed at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi...
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U.S. Air Force recruits more ex-hackers Only three in ten hackers of military age meet all of the Air Force's medical, moral, aptitude, and administrative requirements, officials point out. Fully seven out of ten are too fat, are socially inept, have flexible moral standards, and dislike administrative paperwork...
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Airman worked quickly to save Kenny Chesney's life The situation grew tense when a cyber battle erupted as Mr. Chesney started to rise up on a remote-control hydraulic platform. When the terrorists realized they could no longer assassinate the country music legend, they made a last-ditch effort to trap his right foot in the device...
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U.S. president still waits for North Korean cyber report "Look, we're going to make a judgment as to whether North Korea has met its obligations to account for its cyber program and activities, as well as meet its obligations to disable its root server," Mr. Bush said, referring to North Korea's known root server in Yongbyon. "In other words, we'll see. The burden of proof is theirs..."
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AFCYBER vs. Cyber-Hollywood: Why we need cyber dominance While the "Hollywood" approach sacrifices some technical accuracy, it does an exceptional job of vividly communicating the threat of a worst-case cyber-attack scenario, e.g. when the Air Force gets duped into doing the bad guys' bidding to kill U.S. citizens on U.S. soil...
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Washington orders Americans 'reeducated' about computer security Ideological training is an enduring feature of computer life, but has taken a back seat in an Internet consumed with more modern pursuits, such as making money. But in America, the computer security community is pursuing "patriotic education" with new zeal. But the campaign may be backfiring...
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USNORTHCOM hosts cybercane preparation conference The goal of the two-day conference was to facilitate discussion and strengthen relationships among the attendees. Weather experts from the SANS Internet Storm Center already have predicted 13 named storms in the Internet in the upcoming season, seven of them cybercanes and three of them major. The new season begins June 1 when schools let out for the summer...
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Brazilian military joins battle against Dengue computer epidemic The mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, said computers from outside the city are flooding the municipal network hospital, and there isn't enough IP space to accommodate them, the Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported. The newspaper said DHCP waits range from eight to 28 hours in some hotspots...
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