Blog Posts Tagged with "Intelligence"
Strategic Web Compromises and Cyber Espionage Operations
May 15, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Cyber Espionage attacks are not a fabricated issue and are not going away any time soon... They are aiming to expand their access and steal data. Communications (primarily e-mail), research and development (R&D), intellectual property (IP), and business intelligence..."
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AQ, AQAP, BVD Bombs, CIA, INSPIRE, Media, Moles... Oh My
May 09, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Al-Qaeda has a plan to leverage the internet even more than they already are. I believe they will continue to put the magazine out and perhaps inspire others to make clones. The ubiquitous nature of the internet will only serve to allow their propaganda to be loosed upon us all...
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SEALs, Spies, Security, and Celebrity
May 02, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
When the largest security companies in the world have had their source code stolen by hackers, our present security model is broken. Matt Brazil, a former U.S. embassy commercial officer in Beijing, will show executives how to survive in China without losing their secrets...
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House Republicans Declare Cyber Security Week
April 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The focus of these bills... address the central issue the federal government and industry have stated must be addressed now: updating existing cybersecurity laws to provide the legal authorities to allow for information-sharing and public-private partnerships..."
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Dutch Intelligence Rings the Chinese Warning Bell
April 21, 2012 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
Finally the Dutch intelligence service AIVD has started warning the people about Chinese cyber espionage practices against Dutch firms. The Chinese government is actively recruiting Chinese researchers and technical experts to work for them in foreign countries...
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Patriot Hackers: GET OFF MY LAWN!
April 19, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Do something constructive instead of destructive and inhibiting. You never know what you are stumbling about in. You could be ruining operations that lead to arrests or actionable intelligence. Think about it before you go all Charles Bronson and then a Pastebin dump about it...
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Iranian Double Agents Planted Stuxnet in Nuclear Facilities
April 18, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
“Using a person on the ground would greatly increase the probability of computer infection, as opposed to passively waiting for the software to spread through the computer facility. 'Iranian double agents' would have helped to target the most vulnerable spots in the system...”
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Just One of the Reasons Why I Love Anonymous
March 28, 2012 Added by:Quintius Walker
In the world of cyber-security things transform at the speed of light. From exploits to methods, what worked yesterday is not the solution tomorrow. Ethical problem solving students should do themselves a favor and study the ways of the infamous idea known to us as Anonymous...
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CIA and the Intelligence Components of Security
March 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
We must approach with care the diffusion of technology, and correctly size up the potential threats. As there has been increased media attention on vulnerabilities within critical structures, the same approach must be followed to manage issues with commonly used devices...
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USCC Report on China Misses the Boat on Cyber Espionage
March 13, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
The report did a good job exploring part of the Supply Chain problem with with chip development. It didn't cover the more common problem of U.S. companies who out-source development work to Chinese firms or companies like Dell who do their manufacturing and R&D in China...
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You’ve Been Phished Without an Email or a PDF
March 12, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
It seems that someone is making a full sized driftnet for information on those who would like to sign up as well as discuss the INSCOM Cyber Brigade. On the surface like I said, this looks all well and good, but once you start to poke at it though, you get some strange answers...
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Social Media Monitoring: A Rubric for Control
February 21, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
We have become a watched commodity via all means of communication. Programs have been put together with the veneer of protecting us from another 9/11 and perhaps some of them were made with the best of intentions, but this idea of monitoring social media is half baked...
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Anonymous Now Interested in the Great Firewall of China
February 18, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Why have they not targeted China before? Hypothetically, the structure of Anonymous could have been infiltrated and directed against the Chinese as part of a strategy defined by the West, or perhaps someone is using the name Anonymous to conduct undercover operations...
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Intelligence Leaders Urge Congress to Act on Cyber Laws
February 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Among the greatest challenges in cyber security are knowing the perpetrator of a cyber attack in real time and finding capability gaps in the cyber supply chain – the entire set of key actors involved in the cyber infrastructure...
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Senate Testimony: Cyber Security as a Strategic Concern
February 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Testimony offered before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence included threats to cybersecurity, the third item addressed, signifying that intrusions by state-sponsored China and Russia and independent actors like Anonymous and Lulzsec continue to be a concern...
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E-Meme: The Next Generation of Thought Crime Detection?
January 25, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
An Orwellian software development project that the Navy has invested in called “E-MEME” will be able to sift through the internet for ideas and meme’s to analyze them for predictive behavior assessment. Predictive behavioral analysis via meme’s... Whatever could go wrong?
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- Follow Up to the Out of Band Authentication Post
- Skype Malware Campaign Spreading Poison Ivy Trojan
- I Hope Edo is Worth the Privacy Risk
- Dutch MoD Innovation Competition 2012: CYBER Operations 2.0
- NIST Workshop: The Technical Aspects of Botnets
- Security Automation by Hand - Batch/Bash/FOR
- Who Are You Preaching to Anyway?
- Some Observations on Klout Scores
- Where Will the Buck Stop in Cloud Security?
- How Does Your Bank Protect Your Data?