Air Force Pulls In Cyberwarriors From Microsoft, Cisco

If the U.S. Air Force is ever ordered into a real cyberwar with a foreign country or computer-savvy terrorist group, the 100-plus citizen cybersoldiers at the Air National Guard’s 262nd Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron will boast an advantage other countries can’t match: Cyberwarriors personally built the very software and hardware they’re attacking. Full article




The Next Generation of Online Shorthand

By now, everybody, I hope, knows what LOL stands for. Most people probably recognize IMHO, BRB, and AFK. Online shorthand like this arose, of course, because it’s so hard to type full English words on a cellphone’s number keypad. The problem with these online abbreviations, however, is that they’re absolutely ancient. Full article