How To Fight The New Cyberspies
As cyber espionage gains new tactics and new targets, here are some real ways to keep your data safe.
Welcome to the third wave of the corporate cyber wars.
At the beginning of the last decade, the “hacker threat” was what cybersecurity researchers now describe as a pimply teenager in his mother’s basement whose idea of a [...]
Cyber Sunset over Japan
Posted by dlawyer in country-Japan, cyber-crime on March 9, 2010
Record cyber crime in Japan
TOKYO – INTERNET crime in Japan jumped to a new record last year, led by ID theft and database attacks, child pornography posts and copyright violations, the national police agency said on Thursday.
Police made arrests or took other action in 6,690 cases in 2009, up 5.8 per cent from the [...]
Deep Strike Cyber Munition Introduced! – The CyWarfius® CyberScope™
Posted by dlawyer in Pre-emptive, cyber-attack on March 9, 2010
Rsignia(R) Demonstrates Its Cyber Warfare Offensive Capability
The CyWarfius® CyberScope™ is capable of deep content inspection with the ability to conduct a surgical offensive strike on a specific target. While the details of the test will remain confidential due to the sensitive nature of the capabilities, the CyWarfius® CyberScope™ has the proven ability to offensively [...]
Mariposa botnet taken down!
Authorities bust 3 in infection of 13M computers
SAN FRANCISCO – Authorities have smashed one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 million poisoned PCs.
The “botnet” of infected computers included PCs inside more than half of the Fortune 1,000 [...]
Olympic Hacktivism on display
Posted by dlawyer in Hacktivism on March 2, 2010
Kim-Asada rivalry spurs global cyber-warfare
Korea and Japan have had tumultuous relations throughout history, and this national rivalry was likely to be reheated during the recent figure skating competition between South Korean skater Yu-Na Kim and Japanese skater Mao Asada at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. And lo and behold, Japanese BBS 2ch suffered a massive [...]
Just how many companies have been compromised?
Posted by dlawyer in Hackers, botnets, country-United States (U.S.), cyber-attack on March 1, 2010
Just how many U.S. company networks have been compromised through botnets, recent penetrations by hackers within China and other attacks through other means? I don’t think anyone really know which makes this scenario all the more horrifying…
Cyberattacks Hit Most Firms, Symantec Says
Three quarters of firms have been the victim of a cyberattack in the last [...]
5 posts that scare the “cyber-hell” out of me!
Posted by dlawyer in country-United States (U.S.), cyber-attack, cyber-defense, cyber-ops, cyber-war on March 1, 2010
US unable to win a cyber war
The inability to deflect even a simulated cyber attack or mitigate its effects shown in the exercise that took place some six days ago at Washington’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel doesn’t bode well for the US.
US faces prospect of losing all out cyberwar
Computer-based network attacks are slowly bleeding US businesses [...]
Former Intelligence Chief: U.S. Would Lose Cyberwar
Posted by dlawyer in cyber-attack, cyber-ops, cyber-war on February 24, 2010
Michael McConnell, former director of national intelligence, warns that the threat of a cyberattack rivals nuclear weapons in terms of seriousness.
The risk of a catastrophic cyberattack is approaching the gravity of the nuclear risk, according to the Bush administration’s top spy.
“The cyber risk has become so important that, in my view, it rivals nuclear weapons [...]
