Cyber Experts: Espionage, APTs, Malware among Most Dangerous Cyber Threats

Although cybersecurity experts have their separate ideas on what the most pressing Internet security concern is, they generally agree on one thing: The threat landscape is evolving into more attacks of increasing sophistication.

Here, 10 industry insiders offer their insight into what they believe are the most dangerous cyber threats, ranging from social engineering to cyber espionage.

Sale of ICQ Could Leave Individuals Open to FSB Spying

Digital Sky Technologies has closed a deal with AOL to buy the ICQ instant messaging service for $187.5 million, according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

Jeff Carr, of GreyLogic, says the deal has interesting implications from an espionage standpoint.

As part of the deal, the servers will be moved from Israel to Russia, which RIA Novosti says will…

Proxy Service Opens Hole for Spies to Slip Through

A number of organizations, both in government and the private sectors, restrict the use of social networking sites by employees at work stations, generally by employing a firewall filter. However, it appears that employees at some of these organizations are not exactly following company (or agency) policy.

In a recent blog post, author and researcher Jeff…

Cyber Terrorism Debate Continues

While the debate is currently raging regarding the definition of cyber war, another central debate in cybersecurity is the issue of cyber terrorism. Jim Lewis, of CSIS, believes that cyber terrorism is not the principle threat at present, largely because he does not think terrorists presently have the capability. “I don’t worry about cyber terrorism,” he…

“It doesn’t matter how you define cyberwar,” says Amit Yoran

A central debate in recent months has been over the issue of cyber warfare and whether or not one is occurring presently. Mike McConnell, currently of Booz Allen and former DNI, wrote an article in the Washington Post in which he said that the U.S. was currently engaged in a cyber…

What is Cyber War Anyway? A Conversation with Jeff Carr, Author of ‘Inside Cyber Warfare’

TNNI: You recently authored a book called Inside Cyber Warfare. Tell us a little about the book. What was your motivation for writing it?

Carr: What I tried to do with the book was take a more complex view of the scope of cyber warfare and really even the…