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Hackers launch fresh attacks on Israeli websites

By on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 | No Comments

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

By on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 | No Comments

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

By on Monday, November 14th, 2011 | No Comments

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

By on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 | No Comments

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

By on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 | No Comments

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

By on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 | No Comments

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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Booz Allen hit by Cyber Attack

By on Sunday, August 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Booz Allen has been hacked again and this time by a group calling itself, “AntiSec”.  The group appears to be affiliated with another larger umbrella organization call sign, “Anonymous”. According to Booz Allen CEO and Chairman Ralph Shrader, “the cost of remediation and other activities directly associated with the attack will no have a material [...]

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Cyber Attacks in South Korea

By on Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 | No Comments

McAfee Incorporated has concluded that the recent cyber attack on South Korea is the work of the North Korean government. The McAfee report describes the attack as a type of reconnaissance mission to see how quickly South Korea’s government detected the problem and recovered from it.    A detailed study of the attack and the computer [...]

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Cyber Combat: Act of War

By on Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

According to the Wall Street Journal the pentagon will be releasing a document within the next few weeks outlining the case for war if and when the United States is hit with a cyber attack. The paper is said to be a warning to would be attackers that any such attack will not go unchallenged.  [...]

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This is not a hypothetical danger

By on Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 | No Comments

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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