Jan 12
If you thought you dodged a bullet during Target and Neiman Marcus’ holiday data breaches
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Oct 18
A team of white hat hackers recently figured out how to break into the navigation technology used to track 400,000 shipping vessels worldwide. With this kind of access they could hypothetically make it appear as if a fleet of mystery ships was about to invade New York City. This is not good.
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Apr 07
With concern about Chinese hacking on the rise, Congress passed new restrictions on buying equipment from China last month as part of a funding bill. The measures ban some federal purchases of networked equipment “produced, manufactured or assembled” by any group with a strong connection to China. More »
Mar 13
All-black stealth suits, fingers flying across keyboards, screams of unintelligible jargon at Matrix-style lines of code. These are the things that generally come to mind when you hear the phrase “foreign military hacking unit”—or at least the mind of anyone who’s seen a movie in the past 10 years. But as the Los Angeles Times discovered when they stumbled across the blog of a 25-year-old peon in a People’s Liberation Army hacking unit, the life of a grunt Chinese hacker isn’t quite as glamorous as it may seem. There is, however, plenty of angst to go around. More »
Feb 28
NEC acquires Cyber Defense Institute, Inc., expanding cyber security business
Posted in: Today's ChiliNEC Corporation announced today that they finalized a contract to acquire Cyber Defense Institute, Inc., a leading Japanese company in the cyber security space specializing in security diagnosis.
The acquisition will be completed on March 1 and Cyber Defense Institute will become a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC.
Cyber Defense’s technical strength will be added to NEC’s current technology for tactics against cyber attacks. Also, NEC will gain a foothold in the international sector …
Oct 16
Kaspersky Labs preps its own OS to guard vital industry against cyberwarfare
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Kaspersky Labs’ namesake Eugene Kaspersky is worried that widely distributed and potentially state-sponsored malware like Flame and Stuxnet pose dire threats to often lightly protected infrastructure like communication and power plants — whatever your nationality, it’s clearly bad for the civilian population of a given country to suffer even collateral damage from cyberattacks. To minimize future chaos and literally keep the trains running, Kaspersky and his company are expanding their ambitions beyond mere antivirus software to build their own, extra-secure operating system just for large-scale industry. The platform depends on a custom, minimalist core that refuses to run any software that isn’t baked in and has no code outside of its main purposes: there’ll be no water supply shutdowns after the night watch plays Solitaire from an infected drive. Any information shared from one of these systems should be completely trustworthy, Kaspersky says. He doesn’t have details as to when the OS will reach behind-the-scenes hardware, but he stresses that this is definitely not an open-source project: some parts of the OS will always remain confidential to keep ne’er-do-well terrorists (and governments) from undermining the technology we often take for granted.
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Oct 03
Iran claims to have been hit by ‘heavy’ cyber attack, pins slowdowns on coordinated hacking campaign
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Whatever you think of Iran’s politics, it’s hard to deny that the country has frequently been the target of internet-based attacks that sometimes go beyond the originator’s plans. If you believe High Council of Cyberspace secretary Mehdi Akhavan Behabadi, the pressure is only getting worse. He tells Iranian media that the nation is under “constant” digital bombardment and was just hit with a major assault on Tuesday that bogged down local internet access. Behabadi unsurprisingly contends that the attacks are deliberate efforts to undermine Iran’s data, nuclear and oil infrastructures, with a finger implicitly pointed westward. While it’s no secret that the country’s enemies want to slow down what they see as a rush towards nuclear weapons, it’s difficult to know how much of the accusation is serious versus bluster: we’ve seen individual smartphone users who consume more than the “several gigabytes” of traffic that reportedly caused national chaos in the most recent incident. No matter the exact nature, it’s likely that residents stand to lose as Iran fences off the internet to keep outside influences, hostile and otherwise, from getting in.
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