Zoom-In on CyberCrime

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, 9am to 10:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

Starting in February we will be meeting One hour later, 10am to 11:30

By now we should know what the four kinds of cyber attacks in CHEW are. We talked about the last three kinds, Hackivism, Espionage and War. This week we will focus on the first kind, Cyber-Crime, the part of CHEW that might affects us most personally.

The meeting will show excerpts from the following videos:

• Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net
• Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!
• Extreme Identity: Jeff Carter at TEDxKC

Also note the poll on the upper right of this page. The poll will close on Feb. 3 at 9am. This is an experiment so please email me if you have technical difficulties.

Afghanistan Rescheduled

Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, 9am to 10:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

Meeting Cancelled due to weather

Skye will give her presentation on her experience in Afghanistan. This is a rescheduling of the 1/9/14 meeting. You can check on the previous post for related videos and comments.

Starting in February, we will meet and hour later. So our time slot will be from 10am to 11:30. Hopefully, this will allow more people to attend our meetings. For the remainder of January, we will meet at the same time, 9am to 10:30.

As reminder here are the themes for January to March. In February we will start the theme, Challenges for the next generation. You can add comments below if you have suggestions for topics we could cover which apply to the next generation. You can also add suggestions for future themes and topics for April and beyond.

Cyber CHEW (Crime, Hacktivism, Espionage and War)

Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, 9am to 10:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

In our meeting on Cyber Privacy, Ron pointed out that Cyber Espionage was a much more serious problem. Certainly it is a serious problem, as well as Cyber Crime, Hacktivism and War.  We can argue if any of these are more important than Privacy.

This presentation by Richard Clark about his book Cyber War, covers the four-headed Cyber monster a called CHEW. We will show Richard Clark's presentation at our meeting and use it to set up our discussions.

Here are seven short YouTube videos which provides some background on the topics covered by Clark. We will show these videos only if time permits.

1. Obama issue executive orders to improve Cyber Security
2. Action against China
3. Cyber Attacks by Iran
4. Stuxnet
5. Military Cyber Command
6. Internet of Things
7. Anonymous

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Update 1/15/14

Here is a link to the Economist article on Cyberwar.

Afghanistan Presentation

Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, 9am to 10:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

This meeting has been rescheduled for Jan. 23 same time and place

This meeting will be rescheduled

For next week's meeting, we will take a break from the normal program. Skye will give a presentation on  her experience in Afghanistan. 

Here are some interesting TED Talks which are about the Afghan people. These talks are not central to our meeting, by they are interesting and may provide background to help in our discussion.

• Monika Bulaj: The hidden light of Afghanistan
• Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls
• Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men