Posts Tagged ‘cyber’


Hackers launch fresh attacks on Israeli websites

Arab hackers claimed responsibility Wednesday for a series of attacks on prominent Israeli websites, including that of daily newspaper Haaretz. Cyber attacks against Israeli sites have been increasing since the start of the month, many of them claimed by Arab hackers. In a Twitter message, the Palestinian wing of the global hacker collective Anonymous claimed [...]

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Top Cyber Security trends expected next year

Data security firm Kroll Fraud Solutions has released the results of their 2012 Cyber Security Forecast. The company’s Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division examined the security issues encountered by their clients in 2011 and used those to predict the top ten trends they expected to see next year. One major problem across the board, [...]

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Operation Ghost Click Biggest Cyber Crime Bust in History

This week’s arrest of six suspects linked to a two-year international cyber-crime investigation known as Operation Ghost Click is being heralded as one of the biggest cyber crime busts in history. On Tuesday, authorities in the United States and Estonia shut down the scam, which over a three-year period infected more than 4 million computers [...]

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Submarines Battle in Cyber Space

Vice Adm. John M. Richardson, commander of the submarine force, said he is struggling to come up with a name for the new era of undersea warfare, but “post-Cold War” just doesn’t do it. He and other leaders of the submarine force say they are entering the next generation of warfare, marked by fewer resources, [...]

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Drones Infected by Computer Virus

A computer virus has infected the U.S.-based control stations of Predator and Reaper drones, tracking every keystroke made by the pilots as they guide the vehicles on their missions. The drones, which conduct reconnaissance and combat missions, continue to fly, according to an official interviewed by Reuters, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Something is [...]

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German Cyber Expert Warns of Threat to U.S. Infrastructure

Ralph Langner, a German cyber expert was among the first to analyze the Stuxnet virus that infiltrated Iranian nuclear facilities some months ago and identify its ability to target control systems. Langner, who is in Washington this week for a handful of events, including one Tuesday at the Broookings Institution, took some time to talk [...]

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Security Readiness in the Face of Disaster

  Investor’s Business Daily is reporting that the earthquake in Japan has brought a new wave of internet scams to the forefront.  Within hours of the quake emails were being sent out in mass directing unsuspecting donors to sites that would insert malware on the innocent benefactor’s computer. Alvin Estevez, president of Enigma software stated [...]

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