Quick survey of today’s cyber news . . .
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Via Reuters, Twitter blocked Tweets from a neo-Nazi group at the request of German authorities. Twitter exercised its “Country Withheld Content” feature, a service that allows Twitter to “narrowly censor tweets considered illegal in one specific country.”
Further evidence that governments/borders do matter in cyberspace.
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Chris Strohm and Eric Engleman reported for Bloomberg on the continuing cyberattacks on banks. According to the article, Capital One, HSBC, and BB&T Corp. reported that they have suffered a new round of DDOS attacks. These attacks are apparently becoming more dangerous, with the “attackers [] adapting to banks’ defenses and becoming more sophisticated in their tactics. . ..”
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John Reed, for Foreign Policy, on Mitt Romney’s stance on cybersecurity.
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Foreign Policy’s Asia Unbound blog on how India is embracing the private sector for cybersecurity.
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Finally, Nextgov’s Aliya Sternstein on how Pacific Command used Xboxs during cyber wargames . . .
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