Well, that was fast… “Plans by the hacker collective Anonymous to expose collaborators with Mexico’s bloody Zetas drug cartel – a project it dubbed “#OpCartel” – have fallen into disarray, with some retreating from the idea of confronting the killers while others say that the kidnap of an Anonymous hacker, the incident meant to have [...]
Not that he has anything to gain from an environment where cyberterrorism is feared… “”But we are close, very close, to cyber terrorism. Perhaps already the criminals have sold their skills to the terrorists – and then…oh, God.” Speaking privately at the London Cyber Conference, Kaspersky told Sky that he believed that cyber terrorism was [...]
If Anonymous follows through with this it could push the cartel to try and engage in some attribution ops of their own. “An international group of online hackers is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the [...]
An interesting revelation, but this article makes one failed assumption. Just because Amazon fixed the issue before the research report was released, does not mean that a reasonably resourced attacker hadn’t found it already. It is dangerous to assume that public disclosure = first time discovered. “A new paper has revealed what its authors call [...]
DHS cites some interesting examples in their assessment of the threat to critical infrastructure. What should concern them even more is the attacks they are NOT seeing… “Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today that a major computer attack against critical U.S. infrastructure could result in a loss of life and massive economic [...]
Critical intellectual property especially in game-changing industries is at extreme risk as indicated in this revelation. “Hacking by foreign governments and corporations is putting British companies out of business and has cost the economy £27 billion, the country’s head of cyber security has warned. “
You can’t revoke your fingerprints. “Biometrics are the next big thing in government and homeland security. But the recent theft of the personal information of 9 million Israelis living and dead–including the birth parents of adoptees and sensitive health information–could have big ramifications for foreign governments. “
An interesting analysis of other companies that were potentially attacked using the same vector that was used to breach RSA last March. “Security experts have said that RSA wasn’t the only corporation victimized in the attack, and that dozens of other multinational companies were infiltrated using many of the same tools and Internet infrastructure. But [...]
Apple released iOS 5 to the masses on October 12th with an intriguing set of new features for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. Purchasers of Apple’s new iPhone 4S got access to an extra feature called Siri, a speech-recognition “personal assistant” that’s built into all Apple iPhone 4S smartphones. You can speak to Siri and [...]
Seems a little dramatic to call this a precursor to a future Stuxnet, but certainly analysis worth tracking. “Duqu is essentially the precursor to a future Stuxnet-like attack. The threat was written by the same authors (or those that have access to the Stuxnet source code) and appears to have been created since the last [...]
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