Chinese and Iranians Battle in Cyberspace

On Monday evening, the Chinese search engine was hit by an attack from the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’, hackers who brought down Twitter briefly late last year. In response to the attacks, hackers in China sought to restore national pride by retaliating against websites registered in Iran.

One website registered in Iran had the following message displayed on its main page following a hack “Please tell your so-called Iranian Cyber…

McAfee, Facebook Partner to Battle Cyber Crime

McAfee and Facebook are partnering to battle cyber crime, using McAfee’s security solutions and Facebook’s broad membership to make security solutions available to more than 350 million Internet users.

The collaboration will include security solutions such as McAfee’s software, a customized scanning and repair tool and education materials, all of which will be available to Facebook users.

Under the agreement,…

Google’s GMail Switches to More Secure Platform

Cyber Security is easily becoming the new buzzword of 2010. Lately everyone has been concerned with making their networks more secure. Along with the growing trend to optimizing platform security Google’s Gmail service has made a default switch to the https encryption.

This annoucement comes just a few days after the Chinese censorship…

Google Threatens to Leave China Following Cyber Attacks- China Responds

Earlier this week, search engine giant Google threatened to withdraw from China, citing incidents of censorship and cyber attacks. Google has requested the Chinese relax their censorship policies and claims the Chinese government is either complicit in hacking attempts or not doing enough to combat incidents of cyber crime. The cyber attacks including the hacking of email accounts for…

Cyber Expert Advocates Moving Cyber Defense Forward in 2010

Keith Rhodes, senior vice president and chief technology officer with QinetiQ North America’ Mission Solutions Group, authored a recent article for DefenseNews.com, in which he advocates for the United States to move forward in cyber-defense measures in 2010. With the announcement last month of Howard Schmidt as cybersecurity…

Websites in Pakistan Hacked

Several websites in Pakistan were hacked last week, including the website of the Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes. The hacker was able to access a database of email addresses on one of the websites, according to an article on SCMagazineUK.com.

According a forum posting, the hacker claimed to have accessed the database while conducting a penetration test. The hacker was able to access…

Iranian Cyber Army Strikes Again

The group of hackers that attacked Twitter last month have struck again. The group, calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army hacked and defaced the home page of Baidu.com, a Chinese search engine, according to an article on The Register.

The defacement, which occurred on Monday night, showed a picture of an Iranian Flag along with the words “This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army.” The hack was…

Goverment Websites in Philippines Hacked

A government website in the Philippines was defaced recently when cyber criminals hacked into the website and posted mocking messages on the upcoming automated elections.

The message posted on the website of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, read “What is going to be used in the elections? Blade Server? Juniper Firewall?”

This is the fifth instance of a government website being hacked in recent months. The Department of Health,…

Taliban Finds New Ally in an Unlikely Place, the Porn Industry

Despite a seeming contradiction, Taliban insurgents are able to get aid from an unlikely source, the porn industry. Late last year, news reports suggested that insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan are able to intercept live video feeds from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using commercially available technology. It turns out, the commercial technology used by insurgents, SkyGrabber, is…

South Korea to Ban USB Drives

According to an article on ChinaView, the South Korean military plans to ban USB drives possibly by next year. The South Korean military plans to build a new system to facilitate the sharing of data.

The Ministry of Defense will invest up to $2.5 million to develop the new system. South Korea has been the victim of a number…