Glass Dragon: China’s Cyber Offense Obscures Woeful Defense
The official line in Washington D.C. is that there's a new Cold War brewing, with an ascendant China in the place of the old Soviet Union, and cyberspace as the new theater of war. But work done by an...
View ArticleU.S., Russian Officials Work to Define Cybersecurity Terms
The Cold War ended more than two decades ago, but Russia and the U.S. are still rivals. Now the two countries have agreed to some rules of the road for the next theater of conflict: cyber...
View ArticleReport: U.S. Is Hyping Threat Of Cyber War
A new report suggests that lawmakers, policy wonks and corporations are sensationalizing the risk of cyber attacks far beyond the actual threat. The inflation of cyber security threat, like the...
View ArticleAudit Finds FBI Doing a Poor Job with Cyber Investigations
A U.S. Department of Justice audit of the FBI's ability to investigate cyber intrusions concluded that the agency is not doing an adequate job.Shorten URL: . Click to copy to clipboard or post to Twitter
View ArticlePopular Sports Site Goal.com Serves Malware
Goal.com, a popular football (aka "soccer" for all us Yanks) news site was hacked and found serving malware via drive-by-downloads between April 27 and 28, according to a post by Web security firm...
View ArticleSerious SCADA Security Flaw Affects Critical Infrastructure Firms
The U.S.'s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) issued a warning to critical infrastructure firms on Wednesday about a serious security hole in products from Massachusetts firm Iconics that could...
View ArticleData Breach Notification Bill Included in New White House Proposal
The White House on Thursday proposed a new federal data breach notification law in an attempt to clarify a mish-mash of laws already on record. The notification comes as part of a much-delayed...
View ArticleDon’t Say I Never Told You: Researcher Warned Congress Of Stuxnet Variants 10...
Stuxnet may have been super sophisticated cyber weapon deployed by state actors, but future generations of the malware will be available to run of the mill script kiddies, a noted expert on security...
View ArticleReport Warns of Woeful Readiness For Cyber Attacks Globally
A new report finds that the 'bad guys' are winning, and that most nations are ill-prepared for crippling cyber attacks.read more
View ArticleIranians Indicted Over DDoS Campaign on Banks, Dam Hack
The U.S. indicted seven hackers affiliated with the Iranian government on Thursday for a series of DDoS attacks on U.S. banks and attempting to hack a New York dam.
View ArticleAPT Group Uses Catfish Technique To Ensnare Victims
APT Cobalt Gypsy or OilRig, used a fake persona called "Mia Ash" to ensnare tech-savvy workers in the oil and gas industry into downloading PupyRAT malware.
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