Drudge Report 'Virus' Accusation Coincides With Government Cybersecurity Agenda

[FrankRep]

Linked on Drudge Report (http://www.drudgereport.com/)!

Drudge Report Malware Accusation Coincides With Cybersecurity Agenda (http://www.prisonplanet.com/drudge-report-malware-accusation-coincides-with-cybersecurity-agenda.html)


Infowars.com (http://www.infowars.com/)
March 10, 2010


Democrats in the Senate are attempting to scare people away from alternative news websites by falsely claiming the sites contain dangerous software viruses.

Earlier in the week the Senate Sergeant at Arms made a claim that Drudge and whitepages.com were responsible for viruses appearing on Senate computers. “Please try to avoid drudgereport.com and whitepage.com websites for now,” said an email received by staffers on the Environment and Public Works Committee. The Drudge Report was not mentioned in a subsequent email issued on Tuesday. “Our Information Security Operations Center has observed a significant increase in the number of Senate computers infected by fake security software that is malicious and does nothing to secure online information,” the email stated, according to CNSNews (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/62538).
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SOURCE:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/drudge-report-malware-accusation-coincides-with-cybersecurity-agenda.html


Flashback:

Internet Freedom Targeted
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/2689-internet-freedom-targeted

Coming Cyberczar to Regulate Internet
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/1911-coming-cyberczar-to-regulate-internet

Bill Would Give President Internet Control
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/1773-bill-would-give-president-internet-control

President Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/1188

New Cybersecurity Regime Proposed
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/computers/983

[dannno]

Wow, very interesting.

I can't believe the government is so incompetent.

I mean, it could have just as easily been a left-wing site like Air America that they were telling Democrats not to visit, right?

[dannno]

Right?

I mean, it's just a coincidence that they were telling them not to visit Drudgereport, it could have been any website..

Gosh what a coincidence :rolleyes:

[Indy Vidual]

Right?

I mean, it's just a coincidence that they were telling them not to visit Drudgereport, it could have been any website..

Gosh what a coincidence :rolleyes:


Do RPF members know about the Neocons written, published goal to control the Internet?


"We have assumed control..."


CONTROL THE NEW “INTERNATIONAL COMMONS” OF SPACE AND “CYBERSPACE,”
(FYI: the "all caps format" for this phrase is from the original document)

source: Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century (http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf) (just scroll about ~20% of the way down the .pdf to see this in black and white for yourself)

/ How many at RPF's even know about this?

[FrankRep]

When malware strikes via bad ads on good sites (http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20000353-245.html?tag=mncol;title)


C|Net News
March 12, 2010


Matt Drudge and Michael Arrington found themselves this week in an unpleasant position when visitors to their respective Drudge Report and TechCrunch sites were targeted by malware that appeared to have come from ads.

While Drudge vehemently denied it (http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10466044-245.html) and blamed accusers of playing politics, Arrington acknowledged on Thursday that there had been malware-laden ads on TechCrunch on Wednesday. It's unclear which ad network served up the malware and what type of malware it was, although it was determined to be an ad running JavaScript, he said.

A browser warning that popped up for a blogger at Phat1.com on Wednesday said the TechCrunch ad contained elements from a site that appeared to be hosting malware. A Web search on the name of that site produced a result that said the site was associated with a virus, according to a post on Phat1.com (http://www.phat1.com/2010/03/10/is-techcrunch-serving-malware-now/).

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/03/12/TechCrunchWarning_540x133.png
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SOURCE:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20000353-245.html?tag=mncol;title