Blog Posts Tagged with "National Security"
EFF Challenges NSA's Domestic Surveillance in Court
September 01, 2011 Added by:Headlines
At stake is whether the courts can judge the legality and constitutionality of the NSA's bulk interception of Americans' phone calls and emails, accomplished through back-door access to AT&T's domestic telecom network and its databases of communications records...
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Did China Really Expose a Cyber Attack Tool?
August 30, 2011 Added by:Joel Harding
Wow, it’s really cool that we have proof that China not only has the capabilities but has been caught red-handed attacking a website, and the target they’re attacking is located inside the US. I’m sure somebody at the new US Cyber Command jumped up and down and said, “Yes! We have proof..."
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From China with Love: The Chairman Meow Collection
August 26, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
China has been working us over for a long time, and with each day’s passing we have been steadily more compromised by the 7th directorate and their proxy hacking groups. This is not to say that others aren’t doing the same thing as well, China just happens to be the more active...
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Cyberspace and 4th Generation Warfare - A Marriage of Convenience
August 25, 2011 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
The lesson here is that we should prepare our online critical infrastructure for attacks ahead of time. Assume that attacks will come and that attacks will be successful. This means that critical services should be redundant and capable of providing service even while under attack...
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DHS: Natural Disasters Fostering Social Engineering
August 25, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The DHS's National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is warning that malicious users may seek to exploit interest related to physical events such as earthquakes and hurricanes by generating phishing emails with subject lines related to the incidents...
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DHS: Hurricane Irene Critical Infrastructure Conference Call
August 25, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Friday, August 26, 2011 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT: The purpose of the call is to update partners on DHS IP Hurricane Irene planning and preparation activities, procedures, and capabilities should the hurricane make landfall and significantly impact critical infrastructure operations...
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The Unfinished State of our National ICS Reporting System
August 23, 2011 Added by:Chris Blask
The rather petulant tone of the advisory indicates problems with the way our system is setup as well as insufficient process and staffing being applied to outbound communications. Certainly, advisories with content and tone like this one are not a step in the right direction...
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Chinese Documentary Reveals Cyber Attack Software
August 23, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Now we've got proof. They're also extending their persecution of Falun Gong overseas, attacking a civil website in the U.S. These are the clear messages revealed in these six seconds of video." said Jason Ma, a commentator for New Tang Dynasty Television...
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DARPA Calls for Innovation to Protect DoD Systems
August 22, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is requesting information on innovative technologies and approaches to secure the Nation’s infrastructure and to ensure the survival of the Department of Defense’s cyber capabilities in case of attack..."
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Internet Security Alliance Pans Obama's Security Plan
August 17, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"This is a punitive model where we're trying to blame the victims of the attack. I don't think that the administration's proposal really does anything that I can see to enhance cybersecurity," said Larry Clinton, President of the Internet Security Alliance...
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NIST Seeks Comments on National Initiative for Cybersecurity
August 16, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The plan, "Building a Digital Nation," outlines NICE's mission, vision, goals and objectives. NIST and its interagency NICE partners seek comments from all interested citizens and organizations concerned with cybersecurity awareness, training and education...
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Hackers Could Target Automated Military Systems
August 15, 2011 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Congress has created a requirement that 1/3 of ALL military ground vehicles be automated or unmanned by 2015. Are automated systems susceptible to malfunctions, glitches or software errors? Are there any instances of these systems turning on their creator? Unfortunately, yes...
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Congress Wants McAfee Briefing on Operation Shady Rat
August 11, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"If these intrusions can be classified as more 'unsophisticated' and 'opportunistic,' what is the threat of the more 'insidious' intrusions on which McAfee has focused in recent years? How can we effectively prevent or mitigate these more insidious intrusions?"
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Israeli Cyber Command Plans to Cripple Iran in Cyberspace
August 09, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The center, which has been set up under the auspices of military intelligence unit 8200 has already conducted a series of 'soft' espionage missions, including hacking into Iran’s version of Facebook and other social networking sites..."
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That Shady Rat Was Only a Security Peer
August 07, 2011 Added by:J. Oquendo
After reading about the APT called Shady Rat I shrugged my shoulders and said so what. Why are ten year old attacks and tools still a problem? The answer is simple: Many companies and their staff are under-qualified, incompetent, uneducated, all of the above, or just don't care about security...
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PLC Controlers, Stuxnet, and Kinetic Attacks: Black Hat 2011
August 04, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
Today we have a hacker community out there able to get their hands on code easily and even perhaps the PLC systems themselves to create even more exploits. Add to this that many SCADA systems have been connected to the Internet (as they should NEVER BE) ripe for attack and we have a big problem...
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