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Biggest Cyber Threat? Cyber Expert, Ambassador to US Point to Nation-States
Published on 9 Dec, 2011 at 12:54 in Cyber | Viewed 54 times | No Comments
Rogue hackers pose a problem for the nation’s cyber defenses, but according to a cybersecurity expert and an ambassador to the U.S., the biggest threat comes from much larger forces.
At a Thursday event, Dmitri Alperovitch, president of Asymmetric Cyber Operations LLC, put nation states ahead of other threats such as terrorist groups, hacktivist collectives and organized crime, NextGov…
SAP to Open Lab in Russia
Published on 9 Dec, 2011 at 3:11 in Industry News | Viewed 8 times | No Comments
SAP AG recently announced the opening of an SAP Labs location in Skolkovo, Russia or as it is referred: “Russian Silicon Valley” by SAP.
The new SAP Labs CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States, location will begin operations in 2012 and expects to have 70 employees by the end of the year and…
HP Announces Agreement with the ROLF Group
ZAO Hewlett-Packard AO recently announced an agreement with the ROLF Group, a Russian importer of and retailer of cars, to migrate ROLF’s information technology and application infrastructure to an HP cloud environment. The migration of the firm’s IT and applications infrastructure will give its IT staff more flexibility in managing the technology infrastructure.
“Technology is the great…
Cisco Provides New Fault-Tolerant Network to Russia’s Leading Airline
Published on 23 Sep, 2011 at 11:19 in Industry News | Viewed 9 times | No Comments
Cisco has completed its project aiming to build a new telecommunications infrastructure for Russia’s leading airline, Transaero airline. Cisco Unified Communications enables employees to remain connected at any time on any device.
I-Teco, a Cisco Gold Certified Partner in Russia, implemented the project attempting to build an interactive infrastructure for the customer’s information subsystems, provide employees with wireless network connections…
Russian Prez Assails Hackers for Blog Disruption
Published on 8 Apr, 2011 at 13:10 in Cyber | Viewed 27 times | No Comments
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday urged authorities to investigate a cyber attack that took his blog offline for at least an hour on Wednesday.
News reports said Medvedev’s blog was hit by a denial-of-service attack on LiveJournal, a hosting website popular with government critics in Russia.
“I have received many appeals in connection with the … attacks on LiveJournal,” Reuters said Medvedev wrote in his blog….
Russian Hackers Steal $80K from Pennsylvania Borough
Hackers were able to break into a Pennsylvania borough’s general fund account and transfer about $100,000 to another bank in the Midwest, according to Ephrata Mayor Ralph Mowen
Mowen said the hackers might have been Russians as the names on the accounts the money was initially wired to were “of Russian extraction,” according to Lancaster Online.
The mayor said he also believes the money has left the country…
Russian Payment Processor Hit with DNS Hijacking
Cyber criminals are now using domain name system hijackings to steal critical personal information, such as credit card numbers, according to a new report by an Internet service provider.
Internet Identity’s eCrime Trends Report revealed evidence that cyber crooks hijacked ChronoPay.com, Russia’s largest payment processor Dec. …
Spy Chief: Digital Pearl Harbor Could Happen
Published on 11 Feb, 2011 at 10:12 in Cyber | Viewed 148 times | 2 Comments
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…
Russian Man Guilty of $9,6 Million Cyber Heist
Published on 8 Feb, 2011 at 11:27 in Cloud | Viewed 31 times | No Comments
A Russian man has admitted stealing more than $9.6 million from a former division of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Sky News Online reports.
Yevgeny Anikin was part of an international hacking ring that copied the information of World Pay customers. The gang would then raise the maximum withdrawal limit on bank accounts before taking money from ATMs in Europe, Asia and the United States.
The 27-year-old pleaded guilty…
Russia: Stuxnet Could Have Prompted ‘New Chernobyl’
Published on 27 Jan, 2011 at 12:37 in Cyber | Viewed 39 times | No Comments
A senior Russian diplomat says a recent cyber attack targeting Iran’s nuclear program with the Stuxnet worm could have triggered a “new Chernobyl,” The Associated press reported.
Russia’s ambassador Dmitry Rogozin to NATO urged the alliance to join Moscow in delving deeper into…
