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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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Booz Allen hit by Cyber Attack

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

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

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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Sony Playstation Network Gets Breached

A Sony executive was recently quoted, “very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack designed to steal person and credit card information from illegal purposes”.  He was referring to the recent data breach of Sony’s Playstation network. The attack appears to have compromised credit card data, email addresses, and other personal information from [...]

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Cyberspace Coordination Act Introduced

Congressman Jim Langevin, D-RI, has along with co-sponsors Roscoe Barltett, R-MD,  Dutch Ruppersberger, D-MD, and Loretta Sanchez, D-CA, has just introduced legislation to strengthen protections against cyber security threats to our nation. The bill titled, “The Executive Cyberspace Coordination Act” creates a National Office for Cyberspace.  The goal of this legislation is to assure that [...]

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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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