Tag: cyber attacks
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#FalseFlag Watch: Spying Malware Leaves Countries’ Energy Grids Open To Attack
from engadget.com: Cyberwarfare campaigns against Western energy grids aren’t just the stuff of action movies these days. Symantec has discovered a “likely state-sponsored hacking group”, nicknamed Dragonfly, that has been […]
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Hagel: US Cyberwarfare Force to Grow Significantly
from washingtonpost.com: The Pentagon is significantly growing the ranks of its cyberwarfare unit in an effort to deter and defend against foreign attacks on crucial U.S. networks, Defense Secretary Chuck […]
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FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
from wired.com: It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest […]
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U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011
from washingtonpost.com: U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and […]
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Who’s Behind the “Biggest Cyberattack” in China’s History?
from thediplomat.com: In what is being called the “biggest cyberattack in its history”, China’s internet was brought down by widespread distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Sunday. As The Wall Street Journal reported, no […]
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China hacking vs. Pentagon whacking: An arms race in cyber-space?
written by Nile Bowie from RT.com: Fresh allegations of hacking and cyber-theft between China and the United States as well as resources channeled into cyber-warfare and digital troops by both […]
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South Korea Hit by Cyber Attack – North Korea to Blame?
South Korean broadcasters and banks were hit with a cyber attack at 2 PM local time on Wednesday, temporarily taking down computers inside companies like Shinhan Bank, Nonghyup Bank, Munhwa Broadcasting Corp., Yonhap Television News and Korea Broadcasting System.
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DHS Announces Cyber-9/11 Coming Soon
Kevin Barrett critiques a Reuters article by wondering how authorities know a cyber attack may be imminent?
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Project Blitzkrieg: Cyberattacks On Banks
The campaign, purportedly to be rolled out between now and the Spring of 2013, proposes organizing hacker cells throughout the cyber- criminal community to collaborate in exploiting these authentication weaknesses before U.S. banks erect more stringent controls
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Virtual 9-11
Michael Rivero, writes concise conspiracy theory that fits, Virtual 9-11 (video version, left)! Rivero sees virtual false flag on US banks as a promising premise and growing excuse for “our […]
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Mega-Bank’s Plan To Steal Money And Blame Fake Cyber Attack
Susanne Posel questions premise of cyber attacks on large US banks recently, in article, “Mega-Bank’s Plan to Steal Your Money and Blame Fake Muslim Cyber Attack.”
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Cyber Attack Takes Down PNC Website For Second Day
Pittsburgh newspaper website reports, “…cyber attack that one expert called the biggest of its kind to hit the United States crippled PNC Financial Services Group’s website on Thursday.
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cyber attack reported on illinois water plant
video: cyber attack on water supply allegedly came from russia A Washington Post article reports, “…foreign hackers caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail last week…” The […]
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One In Four US hackers ‘Is An FBI Informer’
The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established.
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cyberattack targets lockheed martin
from usa today: Hackers launched a “significant and tenacious” cyberattack on Lockheed Martin, a major defense contractor holding highly sensitive information, but its secrets remained safe, the company said Saturday. […]