Tag: cybersecurity
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#MorningMonarchy: October 11, 2016
Overbroad overreach, siren servers and security fatigue + this day in history w/SNL and our song of the day by Elohim on your Morning Monarchy for October 11, 2016.
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Tokyo Cyber Security Competition Draws 90 Hackers
from channelnewsasia.com: A cyber security competition began on Saturday (Feb 7) in Tokyo, with organisers aiming to show off the skills of young Japanese hackers by testing them against international […]
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Delayed UK Cyber Emergency Team to Launch Soon
from theguardian.com: The UK government will unveil its lead cyber emergency response unit on 31 March, after delays had put the digital squadron on hold, the Guardian has learned. The […]
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Advocate of Secret Infiltration, Cass Sunstein selected for Obama’s NSA Review Committee
from emptywheel.net: ABC reports that, along with former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell, former Homeland Security Czar Richard Clarke, and former Obama special assistant for economic policy Peter Swire, the […]
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7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online
from Activist Post.com: The recent NSA leaks from whistleblower Ed Snowden have publicly confirmed that digital privacy does not exist. The federal government and intelligence agencies have direct server access […]
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Australia’s Top Hackers Uncovered In Tournament
Bunkered down in rooms across the nation, 43 teams of students spent 24 busy hours hacking IT systems non-stop this week. Their challenge? To uncover flaws in a fictitious company’s IT systems.
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#DataDump: Dossiers, Dismissed and More
Despite i9/11 Threat, Lawmakers Punt Cyber Security Bill // NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Create Dossiers on All Americans // Feds: We Can Freeze Megaupload Assets Even if Case Dismissed // All systems go for Curiosity rover landing Monday morning // #Audio #Satire: New Hubble Peephole Can See Into Women’s Showers
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Microsoft Won’t Say If Skype Has Wiretap Backdoor
The United States government and law enforcement agencies have been trying to force VoIP carriers such as Skype and other digital communications companies to include a backdoor that would allow police and government agencies to institute a wiretap on online communications.
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8/4 Defcon: Black Hat, Shady Rat, Mantech & More
Former CIA official Cofer Black ‘predicts’ cyber 9/11 // Stuxnet changes terrorism equation, says former CIA official at black hat con // Vanity Fair exclusive on ‘Operation Shady Rat’: Unprecedented cyber-espionage campaign & intellectual-property bonanza // Hackers hit FBI merc Mantech; Online security contractor for FBI, NATO, DOD, DOJ & state dept // Randi Zuckerberg…
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‘Fight the Net’: Pentagon Unveils ‘Defensive’ Cyberwar Strategy
The Pentagon rolled out its new cyber-defense strategy Thursday, hyping it with the news that foreign hackers (from an unidentified country) invaded the computers of one of its (unidentified) contractors in March and pilfered 24,000 sensitive documents in one fell swoop.
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defense firms see opportunity in cyber attacks
from baltimore sun: A spate of high-profile online break-ins has given defense firms at the Paris Air Show a new sales pitch: cyber security. Targeted by hackers looking to steal […]
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DHS to Gain ‘Autonomy’ Under Obama Cybersecurity Plan
Obama has proposed legislation that will give the Department of Homeland Security more “autonomy” in its effort to protect civilian computer networks from ostensible cyber attack, according to Information Week.
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zeus attack kit: a steal for cybercriminals
Zeus attack kits are filling a niche in best spirit of capitalism and with as much moral perspective! Attack or exploit kits, as they are known in the industry, are […]
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langner warns stuxnet generic
Cyber security expert Ralph Langner reports his research into Stuxnet in a must see video from a recent Ted Talk. While an article by Washington’s Blog, “Could a Rogue Computer […]
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latest salvo in korean cyberwar
Cybersecurity firm Ahnlab, in a guardian.co.uk article, reported a denial of service attack (DoS) that targeted “… websites belonging to South Korea’s presidential office, the foreign ministry, the national intelligence […]