Blog Posts Tagged with "Cyberwar"
Yourikan Claims Ninety-One Iranian Websites Hacked
August 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Pro-Israeli hacker Yourikan (you-r!-k@n) is claiming to have hacked and defaced as many as ninety-one Iranian websites including government, education and business targets in protest of Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and support for terrorist activities targeting Israel...
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Huawei and Cyber Espionage: A Question of Trust But Verify
August 06, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
We, the US, have unfortunately set ourselves up in a “pay less” mindset that has ha the military buying cheap hardware for missile systems that in the end, failed to launch. Do you want to have the same happen to your router or other hardware that your company relies on? Never mind the whole espionage thing...
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Defcon Grows Up and Gets Recruited as an Asset
July 31, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
With the advent of Anonymous and Stuxnet and the nascent idea of the internet becoming a “digital nation state” we all have to be mindful that while the technologies out there are a commodity, so too are we in the great game of cold war intelligence and cyber war. We are the commodity that makes the new exploit...
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Cyber: Boundless Nonsense
July 31, 2012 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
What is neutral behavior in the context of cyber warfare? Are you, as a neutral country obliged to drop all traffic between these two waring nations that crosses your networks? And if you’re not, are you obliged to make sure none of the cyber attacks are originating from compromised systems within your borders?
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Mahdi and AC/DC: The Middle East as a Shooting Range
July 30, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
In Middle East, the number of malware that have been developed for state sponsored projects surely represents an anomaly. All the examples provided are evidence of the intent of governments to hit their enemies in the cyberspace to steal sensitive information or to destroy their critical infrastructure...
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All is Fair in Love and Cyber War
July 27, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
Whether it is financial fraud, economic damage, R&D or Intellectual property loss, espionage for a competitive edge or turning the centrifuges on high, these are all instances of code that cause damage, and it’s too late to say who started it...
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UK Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report
July 20, 2012 Added by:Stefano Mele
"There appears to have been some progress on developing cyber capabilities. However, cyber security is a fast-paced field and delays in developing our capabilities give our enemies the advantage. We are therefore concerned that much of the work to protect UK interests in cyberspace is still at an early stage..."
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English Translation of the Dutch Defense Cyber Strategy
July 18, 2012 Added by:Matthijs R. Koot
The biggest threat in the digital domain is due to high-end and complex digital offensive capabilities that are targeted at a specific targets that can severely limit the the armed forces' ability to act. A lack of insight into digital possibilities to carry out attacks is a real risk to the armed forces...
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So You Want to Hire a Hacker?
July 17, 2012 Added by:Ali-Reza Anghaie
The annual "Hire a Hacker!" cry from someone affiliated w/ the Pentagon took a new turn this year with the additional suggestion such hirings would have ended the War on Terror long ago. I'm not here to say don't hire the (alleged) criminal element, however, there are some things I want people to ponder...
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Stuxnet was Only the Beginning of US Cyberwar Against Iran
July 16, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Almost all cyberattacks are 'to whom it may concern' but Stuxnet was a bullet with someone's name on it. Repeating something like Stuxnet or (computer virus) Flame will be much more difficult... But the defender needs to plug all holes, while the attacker need only find one..."
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On Government Strategies to Mitigate Growing Cyber Threats
July 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
We have witnessed the recruitment of hackers on the part of governments to carry out offensive actions and to train personnel in the use of deadly new weapon... the keyboard. Not with bullets, but with bits we must now battle, and who better than a hacker can transfer their knowledge on the subject matter?
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Security Factions: Roosters and Owls
July 11, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
We have lobbying going on between two factions and all too often, the roosters are the ones being heard with their cry that the apocalypse is upon us, our water supply has been hacked, our power grid is a spiders thread away from utter collapse and youu my friend, are about to be plunged back into a zombie apocalypse...
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Dutch MoD Releases Defense Cyber Strategy
June 29, 2012 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
What makes this interesting is that they are declaring that non-combatants may also be actively targeted. In essence, they are putting the world on notice that if you’re involved with a cyber attack, part of a militia or a terrorist, you have a bull’s-eye on your head. No matter where you are. Plain and simple...
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MI5 Chief: Cyber Espionage Threat on an "Industrial Scale"
June 26, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Britain’s National Security Strategy makes it clear that cyber security ranks alongside terrorism as one of the four key security challenges facing the UK. Vulnerabilities in the internet are being exploited aggressively not just by criminals but also by states. And the extent of what is going on is astonishing..."
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Cyber War: The Strategic Importance of Defense
June 25, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The discovery of new cyber weapons will be published with increasing frequency, the real question to ask is if the world is really prepared to respond to these attacks. The stakes are high, security is critical for every nation, and the whole world must be analyzed as a monolithic system...
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On NATO and Cyber Warfare
June 20, 2012 Added by:gaToMaLo r. amores
"Threats are rapidly evolving both in frequency and sophistication. Threats emanating from cyberspace – whether from states, hacktivists or criminal organizations, among many others – pose a considerable challenge to the Alliance and must be dealt with as a matter of urgency"...
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- Five Things Your InfoSec Team Should Do in the Next 30 Days
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- The Danger of Mixing Cyber Espionage with Cyber Warfare
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- BYOD: Should It Be the Wave of the Future?
- Trend Micro Discovers "SafeNet" - a New Targeted Espionage Operation Online
- Managing My Company’s Security is a Nightmare
- Bridging the Cybersecurity Divide, Why Security Innovation Must Lead the Way
- The Evolution of Industrial Control System Information Sharing
- ATM Security (And Really Learning from the Past)