Wasting NSA's time

Cybersecurity Plan to Involve NSA, Telecoms

DHS Officials Debating The Privacy Implications

I have trouble with this paradigm.

Raise the bar for some but not everyone?

the paradigm fails to address the seminal issues related to

Internet Security.

THE INTERNET IS NOT SAFE.,

Not for anyone.

Giving special consideration to some dot Gov sites

is near sighted and short range solution.

NSA has special signatures to test against

for intrusion and malware.

That does not help with new malware or

first day exploits. It does nothing to make

even Gov sites safer from uber state hackers.

$18 Billion USD would be better spent

in the civilian sector to protect EVERYONE.

Can you imagine the efforts and work that would be expended

to win even a $1 million USD prize for an unhackable

browser?

Or a truly effective STONE firewall.

Lets examine the current paradigm.

Several Internet security companies have

security suites and they don't even share

signature files and block each others fire walls.

A few security companies have research teams

that are reactive, discover new threats and try

to prevent them.

They NEVER get ahead of the curve, only

react. Limited funds and limited scope.

One Million dollars may not be enough.

The world needs a rethink of cyber security

paradigm.

The world looses billions and billions of

dollars a year, ID theft, credit card fraud,

Information theft.

And there are a few small million dollar

cyber security companies struggling

to keep abreast of the new threats.

The cornfliker worm cabal is a prime

example, there just isn't the brain

power among the white hats to

defeat the confliker bots.

WE LEARN TO LIVE WITH THEM

AND ID THEFT AND CREDIT CARD

FRAUD.

USA could make a world impacting

contribution to cyber security with

just setting up one eighteenth of that

$18 billion dollar budget.

Make it a Darpa challenge.

Put up a Billion of the 18, for

new cyber security break troughs.

The paradigm suffers from lack of funds

and brain power, which the black hats don't

lack for. They rake in Billions of dollars for

their criminal exploits, and virtually have the

field to themselves.

And the funding to pay fot the top brains.

We don't need NSA side tracked into

cyber security, we huge bonuses for

good quality anti-malware and Stone

fire walls.

Something that is effective against

the hackers.

Not specialized signature files

react to past attacks.

Using NSA for cyber security

is like using Bounty Hunters

to keep persons from walking

on the Library's lawn.

Gerald

USA's new cyber command:

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It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims' machines. The victims don't need to do anything to get infected except visit a Web site that's been hacked.

Security experts say criminals have been attacking the vulnerability for nearly a week. Thousands of sites have been hacked to serve up malicious software that exploits the vulnerability. People are drawn to these sites by clicking a link in spam e-mail.

The so-called "zero day" vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft affects a part of its software used to play video. The problem arises from the way the software interacts with Internet Explorer, which opens a hole for hackers to tunnel into.

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