Posts Tagged ‘cyber security news’


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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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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This is not a hypothetical danger

Army General Keith Alexander, head of the National  Security  Agency and the US Cyber Command stated on March 16 in front of the House Armed services committee, “We are finding that we do not have the capacity to do everything we need to accomplish.  To put it bluntly, we are very thin, and a crisis [...]

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Wikileaks, Enemy Of National Security?

Julian Assange, who has been hailed by admirers as, “the second coming of Woodward and Bernstein” and the rest of us as a spy and a threat to national security, has now been caught with his hands in the cookie jar. Assange has claimed repeatedly that wikileaks is nothing more than a “platform for others [...]

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