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NetWitness CEO Amit Yoran: ‘There is a Lack of Visibility’
During the RSA Conference, Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness Corp., discussed the challenges in dealing with the issue of cyber warfare, along with Scott Borg, director and CEO of the Cyber Consequences Unit.
Yoran discussed some of the challenges facing cyber defenders in the coming years, particularly the difficulty in seeing the threats…
Researchers Find Massive Botnet
Published on 18 Feb, 2010 at 14:56 in Cloud | Viewed 350 times | No Comments
Security researchers with NetWitness Corp. have discovered a massive botnet which includes at least 75,000 infected computers at 2,500 companies and government agencies throughout the world. The Kneber botnet has been used by cyber criminals to acquire login credentials for email systems, financial and social networking sites.
The Kneber botnet is named after the username that has linked the infected computers into a botnet. The data uncovered by NetWitness included…
Hackers Use Social Media, Stolen IDs to Perform Cyber Attacks
Published on 17 Aug, 2009 at 16:02 in Cloud | Viewed 335 times | No Comments
New research suggests that during last year’s five-day war between Russia and Georgia, Russian hackers used a combination of hijacked American identities and U.S. software tools to carry out an attack on Georgian governmental websites. A major issue with cyber warfare is that current military and international agreements do not yet account for the use of new American technologies as weapons.
The U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit has determined that to…
