James Clapper: China’s Cyber Warfare Capabilities ‘Formidable Concern’ to US
March 11, 2011 No CommentChina’s growing capabilities in cyber warfare and intelligence gathering are a “formidable concern” to the United States, the intelligence director told a Senate panel yesterday. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the Chinese have invested significantly in cyber warfare capabilities and “this is just another way in [...]
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Tens of thousands of websites in China were attacked by hackers in 2010, including 4,635 government websites, according to a report released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China. The report, quoted by People’s Daily Online, said government websites are vulnerable to cyber attacks, and websites of financial institutions have [...]
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A New York-based think tank is planning next month to release a report on cybersecurity and how to build a partnership between the United States and China to combat spam. “Fighting Spam to Build Trust” will be the first product of talks between Chinese and United States experts convened by the EastWest Institute. The report [...]
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Kelly Collins of Fortify Software: Possible Creation of Cyber Weapon ‘Significant Concern’
February 24, 2011 No CommentPresident of Fortify Software Public Sector, an HP company, Kelly Collins has a mantra for software security: Find, fix and (from the title of her firm) fortify. For too long, software security assurance has slipped under the radar. But now, Collins said the government is beginning to move to patch up “gaping holes in security [...]
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The Voice of America website has been attacked by Iranian hackers who defaced the homepage and disabled the organization’s online news service to more than 30 countries, according to NewZimbabwe.com. Claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army, the hackers defaced VOA’s main website and left a message addressed to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying, [...]
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Hackers who broke into the computer system at Canada’s Finance Department and Treasury Board were not able to extract any confidential information on the forthcoming federal budget, according to Finance Minister James Flaherty. “There’s no suggestion that budget secrecy has been compromised in any way in my finance department,” the minister told reporters in Paris, [...]
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China today rejected reports suggesting it was behind a January cyber attack on the Canadian government that breached the Treasury Board and Finance Department and forced their websites offline, according to media reports. Canadian news outlet CBC reported yesterday the attacks have been traced to servers in China. It was unclear whether the web intruders [...]
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CACI’s Dr. Jack London on WikiLeaks, the Insider Threat and Defining Cyber War
February 11, 2011 No CommentIn the wake of the WikiLeaks disclosures that tarnished American diplomatic relations and highlighted the issue of the insider threat, many wondered whether leaks can ever be stopped. CACI International Inc‘s Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board Dr. Jack London, who previously called the world a “dangerous place,” talked to The New New Internet [...]
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CIA Director Leon E. Panetta told a U.S. House panel Thursday cybersecurity is the international “battleground of the future,” echoing FBI head Robert S. Mueller‘s concerns about cybersecurity being a growing problem. Appearing before the House intelligence committee, which was holding a hearing on worldwide threats, Panetta said he does not think there is any [...]
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Chinese officials have increased their surveillance of Internet cafes and video-game halls as part of a clampdown on online pornography and violence to protect children, officials say. The crackdown has resulted in the closing of more than 100,000 unlicensed establishments over the past five years. By the end of last year, China had around 130,000 [...]
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