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NSA Director Defends Surveillance Of Phones, Internet
The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander, today (Tuesday June 18) defended US spying on phone calls and internet traffic, saying it had prevented some 50 terror attacks around the world In remarks to the House Intelligence Committee, Alexander said: “In recent years, these programs, together with other intelligence, have protected the US and our allies from … Read more
Wall Street To Stage Cyber War Game
As concern mounts over cyber warfare between nations, major Wall Street firms will take part later this month in a simulated network disruption exercise aimed at testing their ability to respond to a widespread attack.
Posted in Network Security, Uncategorized
Tagged Cyber Attack, cyber war game, Wall Street Cyber War Game
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PRISM Leaker Stirs US-China Cyber Feud
Edward Snowden, the source of the leaks about the US government’s PRISM cyber spying program, claimed this week that the US has been hacking computers in China for at least four years. Snowden, who is now in hiding in Hong Kong – a Chinese-controlled territory – made the claims in an interview with the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning … Read more
Posted in Governance, Risk and Compliance, Uncategorized
Tagged China Cyber Feud, cyber spying, Edward Snowden, PRISM
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Google Reports ‘Political’ Phishing Attacks In Iran
Phishing attacks in Iran have spiked dramatically in recent weeks and appear to be related to presidential elections in the country tomorrow (Friday June 14), Google said this week. Eric Grosse, vice president of security engineering, said in a blog post that over the last three weeks the company had detected and disrupted “multiple email-based phishing campaigns aimed at compromising … Read more
Posted in Data Protection, Uncategorized
Tagged Google attacks, Iran Phishing Attacks, phishing
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Storm Over PRISM Leaks Widens
The saga of one of the most significant leaks of government information in recent US history has taken a new twist with the decision by the whistleblower – former CIA technical staffer Edward Snowden – to go public. In an interview carried out in Hong Kong with the UK newspaper The Guardian, Snowden said that after leaving the CIA he … Read more
Apple Users Warned of Charger Security Threat
If you thought your iPhone or iPad was relatively safe from being hacked, think again – researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology say they have found a way to infect them with malware using a simple-to-make USB charger. The researchers – Billy Lau, Yeongjin Jang and Chengyu Song – are due to discuss their “alarming” findings at the Black Hat conference … Read more
Posted in Security Management, Security Threats, Uncategorized
Tagged Apple, Apple iOS, malware
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How Secure Are We At Home?
More and more Americans are installing home automation systems which, among other things, control physical access and security. If the list of topics at next month’s Black Hat conference is anything to go by, we should be getting nervous. Very nervous. At least three presentations at the security conference in Las Vegas will deal with the issue of home automation and … Read more
Posted in Security Threats, Uncategorized
Tagged Black Hat, cyber security, hacktivists
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Global Security Software Revenue Up 7.9 Percent in 2012
New cyber threats helped to boost global revenue from security software to $19.13 billion last year, a 7.9 percent increase from 2011 revenue of $17.73 billion, according to the IT research company Gartner, Inc. In a release issued this week, Gartner research director Ruggero Contu said the security market experienced increased demand for consumer and enterprise security tools.
Syrian Hackers Attack Media, Israeli Infrastructure
Anonymous backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have reportedly hacked the Twitter account of British broadcaster ITV and made a failed attempt to sabotage the water supply of Haifa in Israel. The attack on ITV last Friday took place just days after Twitter introduced its new “two-factor” authentication system in an attempt to block such infiltration. It was not immediately … Read more
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Is your company vulnerable to a DNS amplification attack? Maybe, but it’s in the hands of your Internet connectivity provider
In the past few weeks, we’ve been hearing more about a type of DDoS attack called a DNS amplification attack. In sending out a general alert about this type of attack, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) defined the problem as follows:
