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The Kyrgyzstan Cyber Attack That No One Is Talking About

 

From IntelFusion:

“A colleague alerted me a couple of days ago to a massive DDOS attack against Kyrgyzstan ISPs www.ns.kg andwww.domain.kg which essentially shut them down on January 18, 2009. There are only 4 ISP providers for the entire country so this attack was clearly sending a message. Since the attacking IPs were Russian, and since the Russian government supports the current Kyrgyzstan President, I’m thinking that its a message to the opposition party.” …

Visual Intelligence

I’m not sure but I think the processing phase is becoming visual intelligence in osint realm; in fact, the visual intell is much more…if we think the intell / osint cycle as a network process.

And, this post, from Sources and Methods, could be a start:

“One of the exercises we routinely assign in our Intelligence Communications and Intelligence Writing And Presentation classes is a “visual” short form analytic report.” and more…

Top “N” for 2009

Some tops:

• Top 10 Forecasts for 2009 and Beyond
• Top 10 Alternative Search Engines + 8 Other Top Ten Web Related Lists
• Top 10 Worst Predictions of 2008 (Thanks, Rex!)
• Top Online Security Threats for 2009
• Top 10 Science Breakthroughs
• Top 10 Treehouses
• Top 10 Technology Breakthroughs
• Top Weird Gadget Lists of 2008
• Top Influencers on Social Media in 2009
• 10+ Web Tools to Save Your Butt in School
• 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year

And here is the extended version… 

• 10 USB Gadgets to Keep You Warm
• 5 Methods to Bypass Blocked Sites
• 8 Machines That Can Assemble Themselves
• 10 Ways to Enhance Brain Fitness Online
• Most Trusted Companies for Privacy
• Top 3 Serious Games
• Top 5 Indie Games (last week!)
• Top 10 Ways to Repurpose Your Old iPod
• Megatrends of Game Design
• Identity Events of the Year
• 3 Websites to Learn Cool Tricks and Impress Friends
• Top 21 USB Flash Drives
• 55 Great Websites to Download Free Sound Effects
• The Essential Guide to the Internet and Software for First-time Computer Users

Source: Sources and Methods

A ‘Fifth-Generation’ War

“5GW is what happens when the world’s disaffected direct their desperation at the most obvious symbol of everything they lack, taking advantage of the tactics and battlefields pioneered by more highly organized fourth-gen warriors. The symbol is the United States, the world’s sole super-power. And the fifth-gen fighters’ weapon of choice is political “stalemate,” contends Marine Lt. Col. Stanton Coer, in a new piece inMarine Corps Gazette. “5GW fighters will win by … point[ing] out the impotence of secular military might. … These fighters win by not losing, while we lose by not winning.”

The battlefield will be something strange — cyberspace, or the Cleveland water supply, or Wall Street’s banking systems, or YouTube. The mission will be instilling fear, and it will succeed.

5GW is anchored in the global Islamic jihad espoused by Al Qaeda, Coer writes. But that doesn’t mean that fifth-gen warriors necessarily are clearly ideological, with aspirations of setting up alternative political systems. They’re opportunists, intent only on destruction. But even seemingly pointless violence can have a perverse logic, for the sudden, irrational destruction undermines the idea that nations — and especially the most powerful nation, the U.S. — are viable in the modern world.

So how do you beat a fifth-gen enemy? By not fighting, first of all. Beebe says ending the vortex of violence in Africa means alleviating “the conditions of human beings that create these insecurities across state borders.” In other words, focus on economic development, humanitarian assistance and communication, with nary an M-16 or Abrams tank in sight.

In Coer’s words, “success will vary inversely to exported violence.”"

Source: Danger Room

And, because some part of this war is about cyberspace…

“According to Bloomberg – Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co., the world’s biggest defense companies, are deploying forces and resources to a new battlefield: cyberspace.”

INPUT

INPUT’s Information Security Market Forecast 2008 – 2013 illustrates that demand for vendor-furnished information security products and services by the U.S. federal government will increase from $7.4 billion in 2008 to $10.7 billion in 2013 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.7%.

(Source: IntelFusion)

An Argument for Open Source Intelligence Secrecy

 

“There is altogether too much discussion about the deliverables that OSINT [open source intelligence] can produce,” said Jennifer Sims, a former State Department intelligence official, at a DNI conference on open source intelligence last week.

Open source intelligence refers to intelligence that is derived from unclassified, legally accessible information sources.

Seven Predictions for Open Source in 2009

2008 was an eventful, breakthrough year for many open source companies, and 2009 will be even more so, especially in terms of business purchasing patterns, software business model shifts, and enterprise software stack evolution. The current economic conditions will certainly prompt businesses to look more closely at alternative IT solutions — and open source technology will be one of the big winners next year.

The “new” Open Source Intelligence and Silobreaker

The Tsunami that struck South Asia on December 26th 2004 was a wakeup call for the world in many aspects. Hurricane Katrina that struck New Orleans 8 months later was another. The crisis in Darfur is here and now.