Hacker group Anonymous won’t stop cyber attacking anti-piracy advocates and other nemeses until it has stopped “being angry.” In an interview yesterday with PandaLabs, an organizer of Anonymous said the collective’s mission was to fight back against the anti-piracy forces. Explaining how the group had been provoked by the U.K. Digital Economy Bill and “‘three-strikes [...]
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Sweden would never have been able to protect itself against a worm like Stuxnet, and an attack by a similarly complex malware on the kingdom’s critical infrastructure would have had devastating–even fatal–consequences, warns a cybersecurity expert. TrueSec‘s security expert Marcus Murray told Dagens Nyheter the 1.18 megabyte virus that infected personal computers at Iran’s nuclear [...]
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McAfee CTO of the Americas: Today’s Cyber Threat Akin to ‘Cyber Cancer’
September 24, 2010 2 CommentsIf past years’ cyber attacks could be compared to the common cold, today’s Internet-based assaults are akin to cyber cancer, said Dr. Eric Cole, McAfee’s CTO of the Americas, in a recent cybersecurity conference. Cole, a member of President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity commission, delivered his keynote speech at the New York Institute of Technology‘s first [...]
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Members of 4chan this past weekend launched DDoS attacks against the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America in retaliation for hiring a software firm to act as cyber hitmen to take down websites hosting illegal movies, Panda Security reports. Aiplex Software was recently chosen by MPAA to pursue sites [...]
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Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said yesterday he is encouraged by the sense of purpose on cybersecurity he received from NATO members during his visit to Brussels, Belgium. “It seemed to me to be broadly held that NATO needs to make a strong commitment in this area,” he told reporters in Brussels, “and [...]
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Survey: Global Variations in Online-Threat Perception, Few Understand Term ‘Rogueware’
September 9, 2010 1 CommentA survey commissioned by F-Secure in Finland, Germany, Malaysia, Poland, Sweden, the UK and the United States has uncovered some intriguing international variations in how Internet users perceive threats. Asked how concerned they are about their online privacy and data security, Germans (77 percent) and Malaysians (73 percent) expressed the most concern, while the Swedes [...]
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CYBERCOM Chief: America Must Secure the Internet, Safeguard Citizens’ Privacy Online
September 8, 2010 1 CommentAs the federal government ups the ante against cyber adversaries, the civilian and military officials leading those efforts are committed to adopting meaningful measures to protect citizens’ privacy, National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander said on Tuesday. Speaking at the O’Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., Alexander addressed the issue that [...]
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The networks of the Federal Aviation Administration are still vulnerable to cyber attacks even though a number of radar facilities have been improved, according to a new government study. The Inspector General of the Department of Transportation said despite the FAA’s steps to install cyber intrusion detection systems in some aircraft control centers, most sites [...]
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The British Ministry of Defense is vulnerable to cyber attacks because of data loss and week information infrastructure, according to the MoD’s accounting officer. In a report submitted to Parliament, Bill Jeffrey says while the department is making headway on cybersecurity, the risks from attacks in cyberspace are still a problem. “In addition to the [...]
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