cybersecurity

DHS insider hacking case reveals serious network security vulnerabilities

"Recent interviews with current and former personnel involved in a 2008 federal investigation into hacking and other network abuse at an immigration application processing center in Texas portray an out-of-control information technology office at a key Homeland Security Department agency. The vulnerabilities exposed by the year-long probe raise troubling questions about the agency's ability to police insider threats and employee and contractor access to critical government networks." Source: DHS insider hacking case reveals serious network security vulnerabilities - Nextgov ›
CyberSECURITY

Air traffic system vulnerable to cyber attack

"The team says the vulnerabilities it has identified 'could have disastrous consequences including confusion, aircraft groundings, even plane crashes if exploited by adversaries'" (Air traffic system vulnerable to cyber attack - tech - 12 September 2011 - New Scientist) ›
CyberWAR

Cyberattack as Covert Action

"Most of what we see in day-to-day cybersecurity is not cyberwar, or the perennial threat of the ‘digital Pearl Harbor.’ Crime, espionage, political vandalism, and military “long-range cyber-reconaissance”–rather than kinetic targeting that kills, damages, or disables–are more mundane, day-to-day concerns. National Defense University’s Samuel Liles does mak ›
CyberWAR

The Calm Before the Storm

"When the Chinese penetrated Google in late 2009 -- yes, that operation was Chinese, and yes, it was done with the blessing of a member of the Politburo -- they weren't after customer information. They were after the source code that makes Google unique. Nor was Google the only victim: Thousands of U.S. and Western firms were penetrated in that affair. Foreign governments ›


CyberATTACK

Online Malware Support Shows Infected ICS Computers

"While Googling some NERC CIP research activities, I came across several forum posts regarding cyber security where details of systems, systems that had automation software installed. The posts involve HijackThis logs, which are tools that dump configuration information for posting on a support site, and it’s one of many such tools. On those support site ›
CyberCRIME

Stolen information worth £300m recovered by GCHQ

"William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said the agency had joined forces with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency to obtain the information as part of the ongoing cyber war against foreign states and criminals. A team of experts at GCHQ is understood to be working with the military to develop internet tools to strike back if states attack infrastructure ›
CyberSECURITY

Hacking exposes holes in officers Web security

"A cyber-attack on the email accounts of Texas police chiefs revealed the vulnerability even of the state's top cops and appears to have prompted a new investigation into a notorious hacking group. The stealthy group known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for "Texas Takedown Thursday." The email accounts of 25 members of the Texas Police Chiefs Associat ›
CyberSECURITY

DHS warns of planned Anonymous attacks

"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today issued a somewhat unusual bulletin warning the security community about the planned activities of hacking collective Anonymous over the next few months. The bulletin, issued by the DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), warns financial services companies especially to be on the lookout for ›
CyberCRIME

Scotland Yard Arrests LulzSec Hacker 'Kayla'

"Scotland Yard has arrested two men who together used the online pseudonym "Kalya" and were central figures in the notorious hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec." Source: Scotland Yard Arrests LulzSec Hacker 'Kayla' | FoxNews.com ›
CyberCRIME

China Issues Legal Interpretation to Tighten Grip on Hacking

"China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Monday jointly issued a legal interpretation that aims to fight hacking and other Internet crimes more aggressively. According to a statement released jointly by the SPC and SPP, a crime endangering information network security poses a threat not only to network security but ›
CyberSECURITY

Coordinated ATM Heist Nets Thieves $13M

"An international cybercrime gang stole $13 million from a Florida-based financial institution earlier this year, by executing a highly-coordinated heist in which thieves used ATMs around the globe to cash out stolen prepaid debit cards, KrebsOnSecurity has learned." Source: Coordinated ATM Heist Nets Thieves $13M — Krebs on Security ›
CyberSECURITY

Top 35 Cyber Security Mitigation Strategies

"At least 85% of the targeted cyber intrusions that the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) responded to in 2010 could have been prevented by following the first four mitigation strategies listed in our Top 35 Mitigation Strategies: Patch applications such as PDF readers, Microsoft Office, Java, Flash Player and web browsers. Patch operating system v ›
CyberWAR

Slip-Up in Chinese Military TV Show Reveals More Than Intended

"A standard, even boring, piece of Chinese military propaganda screened in mid-July included what must have been an unintended but nevertheless damaging revelation: shots from a computer screen showing a Chinese military university is engaged in cyberwarfare against entities in the United States. The documentary itself was otherwise meant as praise to the ›