Cyber warfare center prepared in 2011

Cyber Warfare

Increasing attention to the threat of cyberspace makes the German government decided to open a national center of cyber warfare. "Cyber-National Defense Center" which, according to a spokesman for the German Interior Ministry, will open next year.

According to statistics, in 2009, the German government noted that there were about 900 attacks on their computer systems. This year, the increase in numbers. In the first half alone, there are up to 1600 attack.

As quoted from CBS News, Thursday, December 30, 2010, the main purpose of the center of a national cyber infrastructure to protect the Internet from foreign attack countries whose numbers continue to rise. The Government indicated, higher number because many of the attacks, which mostly come from China, are not reported.

Wall St. Computers Trade on the News

By GRAHAM BOWLEY

The number-crunchers on Wall Street are starting to crunch something else: the news. 

Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports, editorials, company Web sites, blog posts and even Twitter messages — and then letting the machines decide what it all means for the markets. 

The development goes far beyond standard digital fare like most-read and e-mailed lists. In some cases, the computers are actually parsing writers’ words, sentence structure, even the odd emoticon. A wink and a smile — ;) — for instance, just might mean things are looking up for the markets. Then, often without human intervention, the programs are interpreting that news and trading on it.