Why Energy Companies Should Care About Cyber Too

Over the past year, the profile of cyber threats has increased dramatically, with Google announcing in January that the company was the victim of a cyber attack. However, Internet based companies are not the only organizations that need to pay attention to the growing cyber threat.

Individuals like Mike McConnell, former DNI now working at Booz Allen, have repeatedly said…

Microsoft Will Provide Vulnerability Info to Governments

Microsoft has announced its plans to provide pre-patch vulnerability data to governments around the globe. Under the new program, named Omega, Microsoft will share the information with governments in an effort to help protect critical infrastructure and government systems from hackers.

The program includes a Defensive Information Sharing Program (DISP) that offers national government entities technical information on vulnerabilities…

DARPA Looks to SMITE Traitors

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is in the market for automated technology that can uncover “increasingly sophisticated malicious insider behavior” on U.S. networks.

DARPA is calling the new technology Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination (SMITE).

“We define insider threat as malevolent (or possibly inadvertent) actions by an already trusted person with access to sensitive information and information systems and sources,”…

Quantum Cryptography Hacked

Quantum cryptography is widely considered to be one of the most secure methods of communication, as the cryptography is alleged to be unbreakable.

Researchers at the University of Toronto appear to have contradicted that myth, however. Feihu Xu, Bing Qi and Hoi-Kwong Lo claim to have successfully broken a commercial quantum cryptography system developed by ID Quantique. This is the first successful attempt to break a quantum cryptography system.

The researchers…

Regulators Warn Cyber Targets

Regulators in the United Kingdom are planning to contact a list of 38,000 potential share fraud targets after authorities recovered a “sucker list” used by cyber criminals.

The Financial Services Authority plans to write to each of the individuals named on the list to inform them that their information is being circulated by “boiler room” share fraud criminals. Boiler rooms generally do not operate in the targeted country, making prosecution…

Man Accused of Cyber Attacking Conservatives

Federal prosecutors have accused a man of launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the websites of conservatives Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudolph Giuliani.

Mitchell L Frost is accused of launching the attacks while an undergraduate at the University of Akron. The attacks occurred over a five day period in March 2008, according to court documents filed by the prosecutors office.

The attacks “rendered each website inoperable, at least…

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Air Force Receives Influx of 33,000 Cyber Pros

Approximately 30,000 Air Force servicemembers have transitioned into a more cybersecurity-centric profession, and roughly 3,000 former communications officer now have new roles as cyberspace professionals, according to Air Force Times.

The transformation is part of the Air Force’s focus on cyberspace operations and the merger of most computer system operations and network warfare functions under Space …

Soccer Hooligans Hack Phone Systems

Fans of the English soccer club Chelsea took their rivalry with Manchester United’s team to new heights by hacking into the phone system of Manchester United. The hackers changed the voicemail message to a chant of  “we are the champions” by Chelsea supporters.

The original message was that the club was closed for the weekend. The hack does not appear to be particularly high-tech, but rather was likely carried out…

Canadian Intelligence Sees Growing Number of Cyber Attacks

The rate of cyber attacks against government, industry and university systems is increasing, according to a top secret memo written by the Canadian intelligence service.

In a redacted memo obtained by CBC News, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says that the telecommunications, financial and energy systems in Canada are growing increasingly vulnerable to cyber attack.

“Compromises of computer and combinations networks of the Government of Canada, Canadian universities, private companies…