http://www.thedarkvisitor.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:24:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nations develop defense capabilities and weapon systems based on threat perception.  While it is  extremely difficult to predict future war, it is something each country must take seriously.  You don't spend all of your military budget on coastal defense if estimates show it is more likely you will engage in ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/07/understanding-chinas-cyber-threat-perception/ If you don't read Chinayouren, you should.  Hell, I didn't even know that "anonymous" netizens had planned an attack on Chinese censors.  Chinayouren is one of those people who is not only a fantastic linguist but also very well  attuned to the current social issues on the Chinese net.  He ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/07/why-the-attack-on-chinese-censors-failed/ KnowSec is sharing the database and also reports finding more than 100 trojan downloaders a day. The database covers more Chinese Web sites and provides more up-to-date information about their security than any other, Zhao said in the interview. China produces the majority of the world's malware, he said. A history for ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/07/knownsec-stores-tens-of-thousands-of-viruses-found-on-chinese-websites/ During the Olympics Games, a secret organization was formed by a Chinese hacker named Wang Zi to protect Olympic websites against foreign hackers and while they won't say, reprisals were probably taken against offenders. This article, from the People's Daily, details Wang Zi's efforts to bring back the patriotic spirit of ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/07/new-leader-of-the-red-hacker-alliance/ H/T: Mark Received an interesting e-mail from one of our readers named Mark who suggested I take a look at an article dealing with Chinese fears of US hackers and the possible threat to its cyber sovereignty: In that context, the article I came across in the English-language China Daily was an ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/07/china-has-cyber-worries-too/ First, thank you to everyone who sent an e-mail asking if everything was okay.  Yep, we are fine with the exception of a few missing images that will be replaced as time permits.  Second, Chinese hackers did not take us down, it was a combination of the upgrade to WP ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/07/curse-you-chinese-hackers-for-not-telling-us-that-the-upgrade-to-word-press-2-8-would-destroy-our-blog/ While placing the US flag in front of the house today, I thought of all that it meant and those who sacrificed so much to defend it.   Soldiers were giving out poppies in front of the PX and my little one got a stuffed "Buddy Poppy."  A little dog ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/05/to-those-who-gave-so-much/ Well, a large portion of it anyway. A DDoS attack on one domain server created a cascade reaction that left five provinces struggling to get online: This is what happened during the DNSPod incident, however, it triggered a chain of unexpected events, which led to network congestions for the carrier networks. ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/05/chinese-internet-shut-down-by-simple-ddos-attack/ Hey guys, just got back from China and picked up a couple of books that should be of interest.  The book on the left is International Situation and Security Strategy by General Xiong Guangkai.   I read about the book in China Daily and went all over Beijing to find it.  ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/05/and-boy-are-my-arms-tired/ Update 3 (May 21, 0130 GMT): Apparently there is another more recent version of Kylin out there.  A TDV reader commented that although the site (www.kylin-os.com) is down, the Kylin v3.0 based on a 2.6 Linux kernel does in fact contain some security features including MAC, RBAC and file system ... http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2009/05/more-on-kylin/