“Terrorism is no longer the USA’s top threat according the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. Based on the ‘collective insights’ of the Intelligence Community, top national security threats are now in the cyber arena, cyber espionage and cyberattacks.” Source:Spy agencies list cyberattacks, not terrorism, as top national security threat to USA | Computerworld Blogs [...]
“Hacktivist group Anonymous, along with numerous other hackers, is planning a massive cyber-attack on Israel, threatening to ‘erase’ the country from Internet. Israel is apparently taking the threats seriously, with defensive preparations underway. ‘Hacktivists Starting Cyber Attack against Israel on 7th of April,’ Anonymous wrote on Twitter, calling on hackers around the world to join [...]
“Multiple gangs of Chinese cyberespionage hackers are now targeting the healthcare and medical/life sciences industries. Most every industry is fair game for cyberespionage these days, so it’s no surprise that the healthcare and medical industry would come up on the list, but to date, it’s been a field more abused by cybercriminals motivated by medical [...]
“An online social media editor for the Reuters news agency has been indicted for allegedly helping members of Anonymous hack another media organization’s network. The editor was outed by the prominent former member of Anonymous known as Sabu who became a snitch for the FBI following his own arrest last year. Matthew Keys, a 26-year-old [...]
“North Korea’s state news agency reported Friday that the country’s Internet servers are subject to daily ‘intensive and persistent virus attacks’ that the government blames on ‘hostile forces’ including the United States.” Source: North Korea says it’s the victim of ‘intensive’ cyberattacks – CNN.com Via OODA Loop
This seems like a big deal… “- Google Sync was designed to allow access to Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts via the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® protocol. With the recent launch of CardDAV, Google now offers similar access via IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV, making it possible to build a seamless sync experience using open protocols. Starting [...]
Today, Apple shares fell 6.43 percent to 538.79, which represents a $34.8 billion market cap write-off. Analysts have been looking for reasons for the drop all day long without finding a single one that stands out. They forgot about the long-term perspective. During the past 12 months, Apple shares have been up 42.7 percent, mostly [...]
A few weeks back we ran a post with an interesting bit of news — Logitech had announced OS X support for their Logitech Alert security camera systems. Shortly after that, the company sent a trial unit to try out, and I’m happy to say that the entire system is simply the best web/security camera [...]
Developed in conjunction with Mountain Shepherd Survival School, the Rocky S2V Grenade debuted during OR Summer Market as a component of their new S2V clothing line. A survival tool, the Grenade cocoons a variety of basic survival tools within a 550 cord fob. Now, the Grenade is available for order as a stand alone item. [...]
“Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for the NDB, Switzerland’s intelligence service, European national security sources said.” Source:Swiss spy agency warns U.S., Britain about huge data leak | Reuters Via OODA Loop
“The US government and all its military branches are naturally a prime target for cyber attacks, but exactly how bad is the situation? Those numbers aren’t thrown around loosely, but Hewlett Packard on Wednesday inadvertently released some statistics for the US Navy’s IT network, and they don’t look pretty. ‘For the US Navy we provide [...]
“Hackers broke into insurance company Nationwide’s network in October, stealing the personal information of more than a million customers across the country, the insurance company recently revealed. The company said the compromised information included people’s names and a combination of Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, their date of birth, and possibly marital status, gender, [...]
“Even as anxiety about jihadi terrorist threats has eased, thanks to the efforts of intelligence agencies and drone attacks’ disruption of the militants’ sanctuaries, fears over Western societies’ vulnerability to cyber-assaults have grown. Political and military leaders miss no chance to declare that cyberwar is already upon us. America’s defence secretary, Leon Panetta, talks of [...]
“Cyberattacks were part of the recent deadly bombing campaign between Israel and Gaza from the beginning, as hackers aligned with both sides targeted the opposition’s websites and servers. However, cybersecurity firm Cloudflare noticed something interesting when a cease-fire was declared: the fighting’s focus moved from the physical space into the digital arena.” Source: Cyberattacks in [...]
“The U.S. intelligence community is nearing completion of its first detailed review of cyber-spying against American targets from abroad, including an attempt to calculate U.S. financial losses from hacker attacks based in China, officials said. The National Intelligence Estimate, the first involving cyber-espionage, also will seek to determine how large a role the Chinese government [...]
“The US Secret Service has begun an investigation over an ‘immense’ security breach in which an employee left computer tapes on a metro train.” Source:Secret Service launches investigation into ‘immense’ security breach as computer files left on metro – Telegraph Via OODA Loop
“Oil giant Saudi Aramco said on Sunday that an August cyber attack on its computer network targeted not just the company but the kingdom’s economy as a whole. The interior ministry, which joined Aramco’s investigation into the attack that affected some 30,000 of the firm’s computers, said it was carried out by organized hackers from [...]
“Hacktivists claiming to hail from the Pakistan Cyber Army have defaced over 400 Chinese government web sites and also hit in excess of 20 Bangladeshi government sites.” Source:Pakistan Cyber Army declares war on Chinese, Bangladeshi sites • The Register Via OODA Loop
“The Hong Kong government has thrown HK$9 million (£730,000) at a new Cyber Security Centre in a bid to tackle the growing threat to critical infrastructure in the Special Administrative Region of China.” Source:Hong Kong cops open £700k cyber security centre • The Register Via OODA Loop
“Russian hackers are holding a Gold Coast medical centre to ransom after encrypting thousands of patient health records. The hackers are demanding a ransom of $4,000 to decrypt the sensitive information held on a server at the Miami Family Medical Centre.” Source:Russian hackers hold Gold Coast doctors to ransom Via OODA Loop
“A lone hacker stole the personal details of thousands of Australian military staff during an audacious attack he conducted ‘for fun’. The raid, which breached a university database at the Australian Defence Force Academy last month, is one of the worst known cyber attacks on a government organisation in this country.” Source:Australian Defence Force Academy [...]
“A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer cluster that can cycle through as many as 350 billion guesses per second. It’s an almost unprecedented speed that can try every possible Windows passcode in the typical enterprise in less than six hours.” Source:25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours | Ars Technica Via [...]
“Necurs, a nearly two-year-old rootkit, has been spreading quickly recently and was found on 83,427 unique machines during the month of November, according to researchers at Microsoft. Necurs is distributed through drive-by download and and may occur anytime a user visits an infected website, says Tim Liu, a researcher at Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center, in [...]
“A recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) reveals that about one third of companies in Brazil (32%) was victim of cyber attacks last year. The world average is lower: 23%. In Brazil, 8% of the companies attacked had losses greater than $ 5 million. In total, hackers stole $ 1 billion from companies in Brazil in [...]
“In ‘Strategic Cyber Early Warning: A Phased Adaptive Approach for NATO,’ a paper from the Smarter Alliance Initiative, Jason Healey, director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, and Leendert van Bochoven, NATO and European Defense leader at IBM, formulate steps for NATO to improve its cyber warning system. Both agree that NATO could have [...]
