December 7th, 2011 Update
The greatest threat to the Microsoft Windows PC has been released, and no it's not Apple http://www.apple.com/, for more information click on http://www.google.com/chromebook/business-education-security.html.
Microsoft has released the beta for Windows 8, and their smartest move is integrating Skype, and Facebook with Windows. These moves along with Lync (Microsoft's VOIP solution), Microsoft Exchange Server and Sharepoint will give Microsoft inroads into telecom and more corporate datacenters for more info on any of these products go to http://www.microsoft.com/. Finally until I do a full blog update this update will have to suffice; the Russians are on their way to Syria by sea (just for "maintenance" according to media reports) but expect the battle between protesters against the government of Syria to heat up........also the top suspect in the bombing in Bahrain is Iran, Bahrain is where a major U.S. Naval battle group is based.
November 15th, 2011 The Blackstone LaunchPADWSU has an event today where Wayne State University students are presenting their start up companies now! For more info click on http://wayne.edu/blackstonelaunchpad. A featured speaker there was Mr. Josh Linkner the CEO of Detroit Venture Partners. The pitches that were the best to me were delivered by Mr. Anthony Drummond of Adaptive Elite www.youtube.com/warspacedesign and the presenters for University Shuffle ; for more info go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQYE_pSBYWE&feature=share on http://www.youtube.com/. This software is a a BI/BA (Business Analysis or Business Intelligence) package similar to Cognos an IBM http://www.ibm.com/ software product. Also thanks to Ford for inviting us to the Blogworld event and the the LA Auto Show; for more info on Ford click on http://www.thinkfordfirst.com/compare/2011FordFocus?LeadSource=FDAF-PaidSearchNonDSS&AltLeadSource=3rdPartySearchCompare&LeadSourceId=&intcmp=&fmccmp= for more info on the LA Auto Show click on http://www.mbmtinternationale.com/ where we have the link and dates for the LA Auto Show...
November 11th, 2011 Update Happy Veteran's Day!
October 31st, 2011 - In honor of the last day of National Cyber Security Awareness Month we want to inform users of an excellent article on Hacker networks world wide in the July 18th, 2011 issue of Network World for more info go to http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070811-hacker-groups.html. Also congratulations to IBM for having the guts to name the best person to the job of CEO Virgina Rometty. Congratulations Sam that took guts and she will take IBM to the next level in Consulting Services and IT leadership world wide. For more info click on http://www.ibm.com/ and for more info on Consulting click on http://www.amazon.com/ and do a search for the book Dangerous Company for the inside scoop on the consulting industry; the book covers the rise of Rajat Gupta who has been indicted for insider trading by the SEC http://www.sec.gov/ (there is an SEC event with the SEC Chairwoman on Nov 17th at 9 AM at SEC HQ in D.C. for for more info click on the SEC website above) and the consulting company Bain, Bain Capital a division of Bain is where Mitt Romney, a US Presidential candidate worked.......Speaking of the President of the United States of America go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_S7JZJQeSA for the Detroit, Michigan Labor Day Speech and for the the Jobs Bill speech go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4McJhMjum4 if you are concerned about Occupy Wall Street pass the Jobs Bill to help send them back to work! Congratulations to Congress for passing the part of the Jobs Bill that helps veterans on Veteran's Day!
Also one thing that makes the Chrysler Super Bowl ad so powerful are every scene is a real place and the people are real people from the City of Detroit, to see the video go to on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHozLw6f5rI. Now back to IT.......
LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/ (join the Detroit Venture Capital Community group DVCC
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ Twitter http://www.twitter.com/
The Art of (Cyber) War Part IV – National Cyber Security Awareness Month..
General Motors is being led by a General (A U.S. Naval Academy Graduate) Daniel Akerson – For more info click on http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/12/news/companies/GM_ceo_akerson/index.htm. Iran http://www.farsinet.com/tehran showed it’s hand in Bahrain and is believed to be behind the recent violence in Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia is a member of the Gulf Cooperative Council http://www.gcc-sg.org/eng. Saudi Arabia also sent troops to Bahrain to help the government stay in power a few months ago. Iran has also recently been charged with plotting to kill a Saudian Arabian diplomat on U.S. soil with help from a Mexican drug cartel, for more info go to the PR Newswire homepage. Now back to cyber warfare incidents, this month is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, for more info click on http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1158611596104.shtm.
Top Cyber Warfare Incidents
1. NASDAQ attack – a few months ago there were media reports on a cyber attack on the NASDAQ http://www.nasdaq.com/ , this is critical infrastructure for the U.S. and world financial markets as NASDAQ is where some key hi-tech companies such as Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/ are listed on the stock market.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2011/02/did-nasdaq-hackers-grab-holy-grail-of-insider-information/1
2. Stuxnext Iran Attack – Last year a computer worm/virus named Stuxnext attacked a nuclear plant in Iran, the political leadership admitted the attack had slowed down progress at the facility. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8262853/Stuxnet-virus-attack-Russia-warns-of-Iranian-Chernobyl.html. Iran is a major supplier of oil to China and this has implications in regard to the UN Security Council as China is a permanent member. There have been media reports that the original Stuxnext virus hackers or someone with access to the Stuxnext code have made a new update to the virus, we will let you know as we gather more information. Let me introduce you to best expert I know on the Stuxnext virus; he works for Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/ and his blog is http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/03/30/3416253.aspx I call him Stuxnext Man, for his real name go to his blog and tell me what you think...
3. Google China network attack – The Wide Area Network of Google http://www.google.com/ in mainland China was hacked and Google reported the incident to the U.S. government after checking with other U.S. companies based in China and finding they had been attacked also. This was a key moment in cyber warfare as President Obama formulated a more sophisticated cyber warfare doctrine for the U.S. Armed Forces as a result of this attack, and Google actually relocated to Hong Kong, China from mainland China as a result of the attack. This has lead to a greater coordination between the U.S. armed forces and private companies in protecting key critical infrastructure of the U.S. civillian economy. The Google attack and move from mainland China led to Baidu http://www.baidu.com the Chinese version of Google becoming the top search engine in mainland China instead of Google. http://voices.allthingsd.com/20100222/hacking-inquiry-puts-china%e2%80%99s-elite-in-new-light/?mod=ATD_rss. China has long had a very sophisticated IT approach, which led to them building the Great Firewall of China to defend against an asymmetric network attack in China, to prevent attacks such as the attack against Google. A good way to shore up your your defenses are to follow some of the tips in the article http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Ensuring-ITs-Survival-301220 in Baseline http://www.baselinemag.com/ an online and print technology magazine for CIOs based in New York, New York.
4. Baidu Iranian Cyber Army Attack – The Chinese search engine Baidu has been attacked by a group called the Iranian Cyber Army. I am still researching this story for more details but allegedly a group called the Iranian Cyber Army attacked Baidu, China’s most popular search engine, China is still conducting a computer forensics investigation to see if this group is actually affiliated with the government of Iran. http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/13/baidu-cyber-attack-markets-technology-china.html. This leads to what makes cyber attacks so effective, because attacks can be routed through the computers of businesses, governments, and individuals who may be unaware that the attacks are being launched from their PC networks, governments who are attacked have to do computer forensics analysis before their response or they may strike the wrong target, which may the true attacker’s intent. At this point with the hand of Iran being shown in Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon, it is pretty good guess that Iran is the culprit.
5. Estonia Denial of Service Attack – This attack is crucial in the understanding of cyber warfare. Estonia was former part of the USSR/Soviet Union, now Russia http://moscow.usembassy.gov/ that got into a dispute over the price they would pay Russia over natural gas shipped to Europe, and the pipelines that Russia paid for were on Estonia’s soil. To make a long story short, while the payment dispute over natural gas shipped over the pipelines was in progress, Estonia suffered Denial of Service attacks that shut down vital government services and dropped Estonia to it’s knees http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9721429-1.html. This was a key cyber battle because it made Europe aware of it’s vulnerability when states like Estonia go rogue from Russia, and make Europe's natural gas supplies vulnerable. Russia has offered aid recently to NATO http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/index.htm to try to resolve the situation in Libya.
6. U.S. Senate Cyber Attack - http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/162353/20110614/senate-hacked-hack-investigate-review-lulz-lulzsec-cyber-attack-cyberattack-us-u-s-security.htm
7. IMF Cyber Attack - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12imf.html
8. US Drone Key Logger Virus - http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet more details on the last 3 incidents coming soon….
9. This is not an incident but is a must read for any bank IT executive who needs to know how to protect his network. The article is titled How Wall Street Works with the Feds by Mr. Andrew Conry-Murray in Information Week. For more info go to http://www.informationweek.com/ and do a search on the story and maybe think about giving a Information Week subscription as a holiday gift, the holidays are right around the corner. For those who are disappointed that the U.S. Soldiers will be home for the Holidays due to President Obama keeping his word on the war in Iraq, I say "Bah Humbug" you need to buy the movie A Christmas Carol from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/ and do like the Lion in the Wizard of Oz (available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/) and get a heart.
Mr. Winston Shines is a consultant for Maximillian Bryan & Marcell Technologies Internationale LLC http://www.mbmtinternationale.com/, he has been published in Baseline magazine http://www.baselinemag.com/, (to view the article click on http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Ensuring-ITs-Survival-301220) has written the copyrighted book Training Today's Youth for Tomorrow's Technology which is on sale at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/ and has been a paid speaker at the Michigan State University School of Education http://www.educ.msu.edu/ Annual Education Technology Seminar in East Lansing Michigan. The company has also won the Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA partnership award. For more info on GEW/USA click on http://unleashingideas.webjam.com/usa/activities_calendar.
The greatest threat to the Microsoft Windows PC has been released, and no it's not Apple http://www.apple.com/, for more information click on http://www.google.com/chromebook/business-education-security.html.
Microsoft has released the beta for Windows 8, and their smartest move is integrating Skype, and Facebook with Windows. These moves along with Lync (Microsoft's VOIP solution), Microsoft Exchange Server and Sharepoint will give Microsoft inroads into telecom and more corporate datacenters for more info on any of these products go to http://www.microsoft.com/. Finally until I do a full blog update this update will have to suffice; the Russians are on their way to Syria by sea (just for "maintenance" according to media reports) but expect the battle between protesters against the government of Syria to heat up........also the top suspect in the bombing in Bahrain is Iran, Bahrain is where a major U.S. Naval battle group is based.
November 15th, 2011 The Blackstone LaunchPADWSU has an event today where Wayne State University students are presenting their start up companies now! For more info click on http://wayne.edu/blackstonelaunchpad. A featured speaker there was Mr. Josh Linkner the CEO of Detroit Venture Partners. The pitches that were the best to me were delivered by Mr. Anthony Drummond of Adaptive Elite www.youtube.com/warspacedesign and the presenters for University Shuffle ; for more info go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQYE_pSBYWE&feature=share on http://www.youtube.com/. This software is a a BI/BA (Business Analysis or Business Intelligence) package similar to Cognos an IBM http://www.ibm.com/ software product. Also thanks to Ford for inviting us to the Blogworld event and the the LA Auto Show; for more info on Ford click on http://www.thinkfordfirst.com/compare/2011FordFocus?LeadSource=FDAF-PaidSearchNonDSS&AltLeadSource=3rdPartySearchCompare&LeadSourceId=&intcmp=&fmccmp= for more info on the LA Auto Show click on http://www.mbmtinternationale.com/ where we have the link and dates for the LA Auto Show...
November 11th, 2011 Update Happy Veteran's Day!
October 31st, 2011 - In honor of the last day of National Cyber Security Awareness Month we want to inform users of an excellent article on Hacker networks world wide in the July 18th, 2011 issue of Network World for more info go to http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070811-hacker-groups.html. Also congratulations to IBM for having the guts to name the best person to the job of CEO Virgina Rometty. Congratulations Sam that took guts and she will take IBM to the next level in Consulting Services and IT leadership world wide. For more info click on http://www.ibm.com/ and for more info on Consulting click on http://www.amazon.com/ and do a search for the book Dangerous Company for the inside scoop on the consulting industry; the book covers the rise of Rajat Gupta who has been indicted for insider trading by the SEC http://www.sec.gov/ (there is an SEC event with the SEC Chairwoman on Nov 17th at 9 AM at SEC HQ in D.C. for for more info click on the SEC website above) and the consulting company Bain, Bain Capital a division of Bain is where Mitt Romney, a US Presidential candidate worked.......Speaking of the President of the United States of America go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_S7JZJQeSA for the Detroit, Michigan Labor Day Speech and for the the Jobs Bill speech go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4McJhMjum4 if you are concerned about Occupy Wall Street pass the Jobs Bill to help send them back to work! Congratulations to Congress for passing the part of the Jobs Bill that helps veterans on Veteran's Day!
Also one thing that makes the Chrysler Super Bowl ad so powerful are every scene is a real place and the people are real people from the City of Detroit, to see the video go to on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHozLw6f5rI. Now back to IT.......
LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/ (join the Detroit Venture Capital Community group DVCC
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ Twitter http://www.twitter.com/
The Art of (Cyber) War Part IV – National Cyber Security Awareness Month..
General Motors is being led by a General (A U.S. Naval Academy Graduate) Daniel Akerson – For more info click on http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/12/news/companies/GM_ceo_akerson/index.htm. Iran http://www.farsinet.com/tehran showed it’s hand in Bahrain and is believed to be behind the recent violence in Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia is a member of the Gulf Cooperative Council http://www.gcc-sg.org/eng. Saudi Arabia also sent troops to Bahrain to help the government stay in power a few months ago. Iran has also recently been charged with plotting to kill a Saudian Arabian diplomat on U.S. soil with help from a Mexican drug cartel, for more info go to the PR Newswire homepage. Now back to cyber warfare incidents, this month is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, for more info click on http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1158611596104.shtm.
Top Cyber Warfare Incidents
1. NASDAQ attack – a few months ago there were media reports on a cyber attack on the NASDAQ http://www.nasdaq.com/ , this is critical infrastructure for the U.S. and world financial markets as NASDAQ is where some key hi-tech companies such as Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/ are listed on the stock market.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2011/02/did-nasdaq-hackers-grab-holy-grail-of-insider-information/1
2. Stuxnext Iran Attack – Last year a computer worm/virus named Stuxnext attacked a nuclear plant in Iran, the political leadership admitted the attack had slowed down progress at the facility. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8262853/Stuxnet-virus-attack-Russia-warns-of-Iranian-Chernobyl.html. Iran is a major supplier of oil to China and this has implications in regard to the UN Security Council as China is a permanent member. There have been media reports that the original Stuxnext virus hackers or someone with access to the Stuxnext code have made a new update to the virus, we will let you know as we gather more information. Let me introduce you to best expert I know on the Stuxnext virus; he works for Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/ and his blog is http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/03/30/3416253.aspx I call him Stuxnext Man, for his real name go to his blog and tell me what you think...
3. Google China network attack – The Wide Area Network of Google http://www.google.com/ in mainland China was hacked and Google reported the incident to the U.S. government after checking with other U.S. companies based in China and finding they had been attacked also. This was a key moment in cyber warfare as President Obama formulated a more sophisticated cyber warfare doctrine for the U.S. Armed Forces as a result of this attack, and Google actually relocated to Hong Kong, China from mainland China as a result of the attack. This has lead to a greater coordination between the U.S. armed forces and private companies in protecting key critical infrastructure of the U.S. civillian economy. The Google attack and move from mainland China led to Baidu http://www.baidu.com the Chinese version of Google becoming the top search engine in mainland China instead of Google. http://voices.allthingsd.com/20100222/hacking-inquiry-puts-china%e2%80%99s-elite-in-new-light/?mod=ATD_rss. China has long had a very sophisticated IT approach, which led to them building the Great Firewall of China to defend against an asymmetric network attack in China, to prevent attacks such as the attack against Google. A good way to shore up your your defenses are to follow some of the tips in the article http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Ensuring-ITs-Survival-301220 in Baseline http://www.baselinemag.com/ an online and print technology magazine for CIOs based in New York, New York.
4. Baidu Iranian Cyber Army Attack – The Chinese search engine Baidu has been attacked by a group called the Iranian Cyber Army. I am still researching this story for more details but allegedly a group called the Iranian Cyber Army attacked Baidu, China’s most popular search engine, China is still conducting a computer forensics investigation to see if this group is actually affiliated with the government of Iran. http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/13/baidu-cyber-attack-markets-technology-china.html. This leads to what makes cyber attacks so effective, because attacks can be routed through the computers of businesses, governments, and individuals who may be unaware that the attacks are being launched from their PC networks, governments who are attacked have to do computer forensics analysis before their response or they may strike the wrong target, which may the true attacker’s intent. At this point with the hand of Iran being shown in Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon, it is pretty good guess that Iran is the culprit.
5. Estonia Denial of Service Attack – This attack is crucial in the understanding of cyber warfare. Estonia was former part of the USSR/Soviet Union, now Russia http://moscow.usembassy.gov/ that got into a dispute over the price they would pay Russia over natural gas shipped to Europe, and the pipelines that Russia paid for were on Estonia’s soil. To make a long story short, while the payment dispute over natural gas shipped over the pipelines was in progress, Estonia suffered Denial of Service attacks that shut down vital government services and dropped Estonia to it’s knees http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9721429-1.html. This was a key cyber battle because it made Europe aware of it’s vulnerability when states like Estonia go rogue from Russia, and make Europe's natural gas supplies vulnerable. Russia has offered aid recently to NATO http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/index.htm to try to resolve the situation in Libya.
6. U.S. Senate Cyber Attack - http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/162353/20110614/senate-hacked-hack-investigate-review-lulz-lulzsec-cyber-attack-cyberattack-us-u-s-security.htm
7. IMF Cyber Attack - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12imf.html
8. US Drone Key Logger Virus - http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet more details on the last 3 incidents coming soon….
9. This is not an incident but is a must read for any bank IT executive who needs to know how to protect his network. The article is titled How Wall Street Works with the Feds by Mr. Andrew Conry-Murray in Information Week. For more info go to http://www.informationweek.com/ and do a search on the story and maybe think about giving a Information Week subscription as a holiday gift, the holidays are right around the corner. For those who are disappointed that the U.S. Soldiers will be home for the Holidays due to President Obama keeping his word on the war in Iraq, I say "Bah Humbug" you need to buy the movie A Christmas Carol from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/ and do like the Lion in the Wizard of Oz (available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/) and get a heart.
Mr. Winston Shines is a consultant for Maximillian Bryan & Marcell Technologies Internationale LLC http://www.mbmtinternationale.com/, he has been published in Baseline magazine http://www.baselinemag.com/, (to view the article click on http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Ensuring-ITs-Survival-301220) has written the copyrighted book Training Today's Youth for Tomorrow's Technology which is on sale at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/ and has been a paid speaker at the Michigan State University School of Education http://www.educ.msu.edu/ Annual Education Technology Seminar in East Lansing Michigan. The company has also won the Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA partnership award. For more info on GEW/USA click on http://unleashingideas.webjam.com/usa/activities_calendar.
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