Blog Posts Tagged with "Espionage"
Project Enlightenment Attacks Reminiscent of Shady Rat
May 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“From a technical perspective, Project Enlightenment is another example of increasingly common cyber espionage activities. While the attack method was simple, it successfully compromised dozens of organizations and bypassed their existing security and detection measures...."
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Chinese Military Advocates Cyber Offensive Capability
May 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“If this represents the official line of thinking, this means that the prospects are not good that a limited conflict in a Taiwan Straits would remain localized to that geography without escalating into an all-out war,” said Chinese cyber warfare expert Dmitri Alperovitch...
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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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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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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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Governments and Gaming Platforms: It's Time for Warfare
April 10, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The U.S. Navy has reported that scope of the project is to hack into consoles to access to sensitive information exchanged through their messaging services. They have offered guarantees that the spying technology will be used only on nations overseas...
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China, Cyber Warfare and Challenges for the Future
April 09, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
China's growing presence in cyber space will result in an increase in cyber operations against the nation. Due to the imbalance between an aggressive cyber offense its weak cyber defense capabilities, it could be the origin of significant technological problems for China...
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Rep. Frank Wolf: What’s with You and Huawei?
March 29, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
What are you saying, Mr. Congressman? Are you saying there are backdoors built into the equipment? Are you saying there is malicious code embedded in the software? Are you saying there is spyware hardwired into the chips?
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Huawei Symantec: Fear of Chinese Espionage Ends Venture
March 27, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
While I understand the defensive approach, I believe that such behavior could have serious repercussions on the global market. In terms of security, little will change by breaking strategic alliances. Cyber attacks will continue and will increase in frequency and efficiency...
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The Real Reason Symantec Sold its Interest in Huawei Symantec
March 27, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
While the joint venture may be over, remember a lot of Huawei equipment has already been sold to the U.S. government including DOD and NASA through channel partners like MPAK and Dell Force 10 Networks. To make matters worse, no one is testing for backdoors in firmware updates...
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Millions of US Government Email Addresses for Sale
March 19, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
An underground black market is offering 2,462,935 U.S government email addresses and another 2,178,000 U.S military email addresses for sale. The risks are really serious, as this information could be used by hostile government in cyber attacks and cyber espionage activities...
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Commerce Secretary Bryson Doesn't Understand Cyber Espionage
March 16, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
The U.S. will only begin to save its intellectual property from cyber thieves when corporate boards of directors force CEOs to inventory, segregate and monitor their critical data in real time which usually means re-architecting their entire network...
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Yet Another Chinese-Based Targeted Malware Attack
March 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The payload is also an advanced persistent threat - extremely difficult to detect once inside the network. Although it’s more than a week old, the backdoor still has poor detection, with only 7 of 42 antivirus solutions able to detect it..."
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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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New Opportunities for Cyber Espionage and Cyber Crime
March 08, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Computer fraud, phishing, and malware development designed to steal sensitive information from users, the use of advanced persistent threats, ramsonware, and cyber espionage are all activities united by the intent to profit from the improper use of technology...
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Northrop Report Examines Chinese Information Warfare Strategies
March 08, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"PLA leaders have embraced the idea that successful warfighting is predicated on the ability to exert control over an adversary’s information and information systems, often preemptively. This goal has effectively created a new strategic and tactical high ground..."
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