Blog Posts Tagged with "Cyber Espionage"
Iran and India, control and monitoring of networks
January 08, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The news is circulating for days, the Iranian head of the national security forces , Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam, declared that low enforcement of the country is developing a software for "smart control" of social-networking sites, the authorities have understood that the control of the powerful platforms is more important filtering.
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency hit again by malware
December 03, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The New Your Times has recently published the news the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency was hit by a virus that stolen secret information on newest rockets from an internal computer...
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Our Massively Dysfunctional Cyber System
November 28, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
What should be done to stop theft of intellectual property by state actors (China) would require a Presidential Finding but our leadership structure is devoid of real leaders. That is not a political statement, that is a statement about our country...
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Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation
November 14, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Every organization of size and scope is a target, and many of the world’s largest firms and governments have been victims. In Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation, Dr. Max Kilger and his co-authors provide an effective counterintelligence approach in which to deal with APT...
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Flame, miniFlame, the mystery of an on going cyber espionage campaign
October 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Last May The Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team (MAHER) detected a new malware which hit the country named Flame, also known as Flamer or Skywiper. Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab also identified the malware, recognized as a powerful cyber espionage tool that hit mainly Windows systems in the Middle East...
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Concerted Chinese Government Attacks or Just Another Day?
October 01, 2012 Added by:Marc Quibell
Front page news headlines today: "Chinese Hackers Breach White House!" For a split second there I was almost concerned; and then after reading I thought to myself...blah another false alarm. What did I expect?
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Energy Sector Cyber Espionage: Chinese Hackers are not Alone
September 29, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Since last month a new campaign of cyber attacks have hit the Energy sector, all is started with the incidents to Saudi Aramco and RasGas companies, in both cases a malware infected internal networks without impacting on the production systems...
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The Wicked Witches of Cyberspace
September 27, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
Lately I’ve been doing a deep dive on technologies that enable one to bypass filters, blocking and jamming, to get uncensored information into denied areas. When we use these technologies it is on behalf of goodness, apple pie and the American way. When someone else does its nefarious...
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State-Sponsored Attacks or Not? That's the Question...
September 18, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Despite the use of cyber weapons and the damage caused by offensive operations being major concerns for intelligence agencies, clues are frequently discovered about attacks designed to steal sensitive information and intellectual property. Who is behind these cyber attacks?
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Rapid 7 Analysis of Data Breach Incidents
September 11, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Excluding attacks by foreign governments and cyber criminals that exploit 0-days, with best practices and the adoption of compliance at the current standard, in matters of security it is possible to avoid data breach incidents, or at least reduce the amount of exposed information...
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Elderwood Project: Who is Behind Aurora and Ongoing Attacks?
September 10, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The attacks appeared to be originated in China and aimed at dozens of other organizations who were hit, of which Adobe Systems and Juniper Networks confirmed the incident. The press is also convinced that other companies were targeted such as Morgan Stanley, Northrop Grumman and Yahoo...
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Three Days of The Condor... With Malware
September 07, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Pandora’s box has been opened. All the players are taking the field, and many of them may not be ready to play a proper game… Shamoon did it’s thing, but it seems to be more a brute force tool than an elegant piece of code and a slick plan. The blowback though is yet to be determined...
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OPSEC: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
September 06, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
In the cyber world there is a process called IGL or Intelligence Gain-Loss. Sometimes deploying a new tool would disclose a capability that the US has to gather intelligence, but sometimes the gain outweighs the loss of a source. Ya gotta ask is the juice worth the squeeze?
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Our Cyber Dysconnect
September 03, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
The fact is our governments all talk across one another instead of honestly exchanging data. You, me, the engineer in the office down the hall or the President of this country or that, we can all talk about how bad things are but until we have agreed upon terms and can honestly compare apples with oranges, all we are using are empty words
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U.S. Admits to Cyber Attacks: The Future of Conflict
August 28, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
“As a commander in Afghanistan in the year 2010, I was able to use my cyber operations against my adversary with great impact... I was able to get inside his nets, infect his command-and-control, and in fact defend myself against his almost constant incursions to get inside my wire, to affect my operations...”
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False Flags, Geopolitics and Cyber Spies
August 22, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
False flag is when an operation of some kind is carried out by one group but falsely attributed to another. Whether it's a rogue attacker attributing an attack to a rival group or a nation-state attempting to cause tensions between rival nations for their own benefit - the conspiracy theories write themselves...
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