Leaks on Internet a Threat to National Security

The U.S. Army views Wikileaks.org, a website that publishes “secret” government and corporate documents, as a potential threat to national security and has made plans to marginalize the website’s effectiveness.

Last week, Wikileaks published an Army report, published internally in March 2008, which examined the website and its possible implications for national security. The counterintelligence study said that there…

Russia to Crack Down on Cyber Crime

The Russian Coordination Center, which administers all of Russia’s domain registries (.ru), will begin to verify the identities of registrants starting in April. Businesses and individuals registering a domain name will be required to provide a copy of a passport or legal registration papers.

Russia is widely considered to be a haven for cyber criminals. Most of the cyber criminals operating in Russia do not target individuals inside the country,…

Alan Paller: Journalists among Most Important People in Cybersecurity

Writers from washingtonpost.com, Wired, International Data Group, Dark Reading and USA Today topped the list of cybersecurity reporters who received the 2010 Top Journalist Award at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Calif., earlier this month.

“Journalists are among the most important people in cybersecurity because until the public fully understands the threat, the nation…

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Human Rights Activist Condemns Iran Cyber Crackdown

Last week, The New New Internet reported on the hacking attacks against Human Rights Activists in Iran by members of the Revolutionary Guards. Today, at a speaking engagement at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Ahmad Batebi, of Human Rights Activists in Iran, and Joe Stork, of Human Rights Watch, spoke out against the crackdown, which included cyber attacks against human rights websites and arrests of…

Secret Service IT Infrastructure Outstanding…in 1980

Although the Secret Service’s most well known job is the task of protecting the President, they still focus on their original mandate investigating counterfeit currency crime.  Last Thursday, Secret Service director Mark Sullivan testified before a House Appropriations hearing about the status of counterfeiting and protective detail and their newest budget requests. Sullivan and his…

Another Twitter Phishing Attack over Weekend

This weekend, Twitter experienced the latest phishing attack in a string that has been hitting social media websites of late. As more and more users utilize social networking websites, it becomes more profitable for cyber criminals to target victims using the sites.

The latest attack utilizes Twitters direct messaging (DM) feature, which allows users to directly message another user (similar to AIM chats). The Tweets are direct from one user…

Chinese Publish Research Paper Envisioning Cyber Attack on U.S.

Late last year, an article titled “Cascade-Based Attack Vulnerability on the U.S. Power Grid” was published in the Safety Science journal by a Chinese student and his professor. The paper explored two possible attack scenarios on the U.S. power grid and how it would respond to such attacks.

Two weeks ago, Larry Wortzel provided

Singapore Tries Virtual Cybersecurity Park

In an effort to educate school children on good cyber hygiene, Singapore has opened a “Virtual Cyber Security Park,” along with announcing several other measures today as part of the Infocomm Security Masterplan 2 (MP2).

Students attending primary school in Singapore (the equivalent of elementary school in the United States) will have the opportunity to navigate the “Virtual Cyber Security…

Google Releases Security Scanner

Google has released a free web security scanner called Skipfish late last week. According to the collaborative page maintained by Google, Skipfish “is an active web application security reconnaissance tool.” It is designed to operate within a range of web applications and is designed to reduce false-positives and work quickly without slowing down operations….