Defense Official Confirms Cyber Attack

A senior defense official has confirmed that the breach of U.S. military networks as a result of an infected USB drive, which was placed into a military laptop in the Middle East in 2008.

In an article published today in Foreign Affairs, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III writes malware was placed onto a…

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Alion’s Mark Ives: Our Cyber Warriors Understand the Threat Across the Enterprise

In an effort to enhance cybersecurity at Alion Science and Technology Corporation, Chief Information Officer Mark Ives instituted a cyber training program to build a trained cyber workforce that understands the threat across the enterprise, rather than only for individual sections of the company.

The program, called Alion Cyber Warrior Training, approaches cybersecurity from an end-to-end…

Senators Highlight Supply-Chain Management Concerns in Letter to Administration

The possibility of a Chinese firm providing equipment to Sprint Nextel has caused some senators to raise their concerns regarding supply-chain integrity, in an open letter to administration officials.

In a letter addressed to DNI Jim Clapper, Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, eight senators raised their concerns that the possibility that…

Robert Carey: Cyber is a Team Sport

Cybersecurity is a team effort, according to Department of Navy CIO Robert Carey, who will shortly leave to take over cybersecurity for the Navy.

The Navy, as all branches of DoD, relies heavily upon the interaction between Navy personnel, civilians, contractors and academia, Carey writes in his blog.

“As I step closer to the operational component of the…

Nokia Siemens Sued for Providing Spy Tech to Iran

Nokia Siemens is being sued by a journalist imprisoned without trial in Iran since June 2009 for allegedly providing the Iranian government with surveillance equipment used to capture him.

Following the apparently fraudulent 2009 presidential elections, Isa Saharkhiz went into hiding after publishing an article calling the Grand Ayatollah a hypocrite, responsible for the fraudulent vote tallies. A complaint filed in federal court in Virginia asserts authorities with the Iranian…

Police Arrest Computer Scientist for Pointing to Security Holes

Police in India have arrested a computer scientist after he refused to provide details regarding where he acquired an electronic voting machine a group of researchers used to find holes in the country’s electronic voting system.

Hari Prasad, managing director of Netindia LTD, was raided by police over the weekend. The arrests come after the publication of research in April regarding the vulnerability of the electronic voting machines…

Google CEO: Change Name to Hide Past

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has suggested a novel approach to offset potentially damaging search-result histories: Change your name once you reach adulthood.

“I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” Schmidt told The Wall Street Journal.

Instead, Schmidt envisions a world where “every…

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Malware Targets Iranian Companies

Iran has experienced the first-ever malware attack against industrial control systems, which is spreading via USB drives. The malware provides backdoors and steals critical infrastructure documents relating to SCADA systems, according to Asia CNET.

Iranian media claim attacks have hit industrial facilities that use SCADA systems provided by Siemens. A report by Symantec says that nearly 60 percent of all systems hit by the Stuxnet rootkit are in Iran.

The malware…