Blog Posts Tagged with "Espionage"
China’s Rise from Hacking To Digital Espionage
June 06, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
China's Dark Visitor movement of the 1990′s has morphed into a government espionage wing. What was once a loosely affiliated group of patriotic hackers has been honed by the Peoples Liberation Army into a force to be reckoned with on the stage of digital espionage and data theft...
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Summit Seeks Global Cybersecurity Collaboration
June 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“I’d like to see us create a working group which talks about cybersecurity espionage and cyber conflict in a big way. Cybersecurity is now intertwined with international security, and you can't divorce it from that...”
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China Acknowledges Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit
May 26, 2011 Added by:Headlines
While numerous nations are involved in varying levels of cyber aggression, what makes the Chinese threat so much more palpable is the systemic nature and comparatively large scale of the state-sponsored cyber-offensive operations...
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Congress Bans Collaboration with China - Cites Espionage Risk
May 09, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The bill prohibits any engagements “to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement or execute a bilateral policy, program, order, or contract of any kind to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned company..."
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China Advances Cyber Warfare as Primary Strategy
May 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The Chinese have long seen a tactical cyber offensive capability as being a powerful equalizer in their quest to attain superpower status and undermine the effectiveness of international political rivals. The Chinese strategy extends well beyond potential military targets...
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The PrimorisEra Affair: Social Networking and SECOPS
April 29, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
Never mind if you work in a job that requires security, everyone should be cognizant when they are online talking to someone that they do not know in real life. From the common data thief to the corporate spy, we all may have data that someone wants and is willing to lie to get it...
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Chinese Hackers Spear-Phishing for US Military Secrets
April 23, 2011 Added by:Dan Dieterle
What could the Chinese hope to gain? Military secrets. Along with terabytes of data that have been stolen, the Chinese also obtained login credentials and blue prints to some of America’s hi-tech military equipment...
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The Thousand Grains of Sand in the Electronic Age
April 20, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
Over the years the Chinese have made it their business to steal a lot of data. Some of it you would readily see as important militarily or for industrial espionage, but some of the data is much more arcane as to the reasons why they would make the efforts that they do to get it...
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Dead Drop File Sharing Reminiscent of Cold War Espionage
April 19, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Dead Drops is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in a public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data...
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China Holds the Advantage in Cyber Espionage Game
April 14, 2011 Added by:Headlines
According to Brenner, thousands of U.S. companies were targeted in the Aurora attacks, a great deal more than the 34 companies publicly identified. Brenner says the scale of the operation demonstrates China's "heavy-handed use of state espionage against economic targets..."
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WikiLeaks Source Manning Used Data-Mining Software
April 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The U.S. Army has confirmed that accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning had installed data-mining software on his SIPRnet-linked computer during the same period he is suspected of harvesting hundreds-of-thousands of classified government documents...
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Dutch National Cyber Security Strategy - Blessing or Curse?
March 31, 2011 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
For now, very few experts take these measures seriously and fear that our National cyber defense posture will be weakened rather than strengthened. Let´s hope that this is not the case, because various research papers already point to The Netherlands as a haven for malware...
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Chinese Cyber Espionage Operations Escalate
March 31, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Today, we see constant attempts by cyber means to steal the nation's secrets, as well as information vital to the effective operation of critical national industries and infrastructure, not to mention commercial intelligence and criminal fraud..."
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Seven Types of Hacker Motivations
March 25, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Governments around the globe realize that it serves their military objectives to be well positioned online. The saying used to be, “He who controls the seas controls the world,” and then it was, “He who controls the air controls the world.” Now it’s all about controlling cyberspace...
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AT&T's Facebook Traffic Mysteriously Routed Through China
March 25, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Typically AT&T customers’ data would have routed over the AT&T network directly to Facebook’s network provider but due to a routing mistake their private data went first to Chinanet then via Chinanet to SK Broadband in South Korea, then to Facebook..."
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Anonymous vs. Anonymous: Enough Hubris To Go Around
March 19, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
"A hacker startup calling itself Backtrace Security–made up of individuals who formerly counted themselves as part of Anonymous’ loose digital collective–announced plans Friday to publish identifying information on a handful of active members of Anonymous..."
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