Date:
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Title:
Philippines tighten Internet Security
Briefs:
The Philippines on Sunday ordered all government offices to tighten Internet security after its main information website was brought down by hackers.
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Date:
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Title:
Cyber Defense Vulnerabilities
Briefs:
In a just released report, IBM's X-Force Research and Development team announced that new "software vulnerabilities" increased 36 percent to 4,396 from the same period last year and more than half of these vulnerabilities still lack a patch to fix the flaws!
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Date:
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Title:
Stealth Cruise Missile
Briefs:
Last week a federal jury convicted a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer of helping China design a stealth cruise missile; the case is one of a series of major prosecutions targeting Chinese spying on the United States.
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Date:
Friday, August 20, 2010
Title:
Cyber Warfare Training Program
Briefs:
The IO Institute and Technolytics announces the first Cyber Warfare Training Program
The IO Institute and Technolytics announced the launch a new course titled: Cyber Warfare –the Weaponry and Strategies of Digital Conflict. Cyber Warfare is now viewed as a critical component of a comprehensive national security strategy rather than a stand-alone option. This program examines the current international and domestic issues as they might apply to acts of cyber aggression, and uses case study summaries of actual events to develop real-world insights. The program includes examples of actual cyber warfare attacks, the methods used to launch the attack and the counter-measures used to defend countries and business around the world. It includes strategies for compiling a comprehensive Cyber Warfare Doctrine, and builds the case for cooperation between nations if critical information systems and other infrastructure are to remain secure and out of the hands of unseen enemies. Given the recent cyber attacks against Google and many others, it is important that the military, intelligence agencies, government leaders, and the homeland security community develop appropriate doctrine skills needed to counter the threat of cyber terrorism and cyber warfare.
Program Date: September 14 – 16, 2010
LINK http://www.crows.org/component/option,com_eventlist/Itemid,396/id,66/view,details/
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Date:
Friday, August 20, 2010
Title:
BREAKING NEWS - - - Malware implicated in 2008 fatal plane crash in Spain
Briefs:
Investigators looking into the crash of Spanair Flight 5022 at Madrid International Airport that killing 154 found that the central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware (a Trojan) This computer should have alerted the crew by an audible alarm that the flaps and slats were retracted - NOT in the proper position for takeoff!
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board preliminary investigation found that no audible alarm had been heard to warn of this.
http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/08/20/nyheter/spanair/flystyrt/utenriks/sas/13047445/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/20/spanair_malware/
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Date:
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Title:
2000 Classified Docs on LapTop
Briefs:
The Indian Army has ordered a court of inquiry (CoI) against a Army Major that was posted in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The unidentified Major had over 2,000 classified and sensitive documents stored on his computer which was "hacked'' from outside of India earlier this year.
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Date:
Monday, July 19, 2010
Title:
Internet Threat Condition Raised
Briefs:
Security organizations today raised Internet threat levels to warn users that they expect widespread attacks using exploits of a just-acknowledged critical bug in all versions of Windows. The Internet Storm Center raised its Infocon threat indicator to "Yellow," a rare move, while Symantec also bumped up the status of its ThreatCon barometer to "Elevated" both due to this flaw.
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Date:
Monday, July 12, 2010
Title:
World Cup Bombing
Briefs:
At least 74 people died in Kampala, Ugandan when two bombs went off suspected to have been carried out by Somali Islamist insurgents.
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Date:
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Title:
Another Breach
Briefs:
Hackers were able to access a list of attendees for the recent Cisco Live 2010
conference. This security breach led Cisco to notify the customers as well as a broader group who have dealings with the company.
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Date:
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Title:
SPY SWAP
Briefs:
Russia has expressed interest in swapping a scientist jailed for espionage with one of 10 alleged Russian agents detained by US authorities last month.
They want the swap to take place tomorrow! What are they afraid of?
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Date:
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Title:
Doing the spy's job for them
Briefs:
Highly sensitive details of a U.S. military's missile air defense system were found on a second-hand hard drive bought on eBay. British researchers found the data while studying more than 300 hard disks bought at computer auctions, computer fairs and eBay. The drives were bought from the UK, America, Germany, France and Australia by BT's Security Research Centre in collaboration with the University of Glamorgan in Wales, Edith Cowan University in Australia and Longwood University in the US.
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Date:
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Title:
China Banned Internet for soldiers
Briefs:
Alarmed at the amount of military information being innocently leaked by their soldiers on the Internet, China has banned all uniformed personnel from operating blogs, personal web sites or using social networking sites. They are also barred from Internet Cafes. Troops are not completely banned from using the Internet off duty, they are simply forbidden to communicate with anyone they don't know.
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Date:
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Title:
Deep-Cover Russian Spies
Briefs:
The alleged Russian deep-cover spy network within the U.S. has brought back visions and concerns of cold war espionage activities. As the story continues to unfold, it continues to have all the components of a classic spy novel. Inside reports that the ten person spy ring was busted after years of surveillance.
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Date:
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Title:
Cellular Spy
Briefs:
Lebanese authorities have detained a senior employee at one of the country's two cellular phone companies on suspicion of giving security information to Israel. Lebanese authorities have arrested more than 50 people suspected of collaborating with Israel, most in suspicion of giving information about the militant Hezbollah in the last 12 months.
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Date:
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Title:
Smart Phone Scanners
Briefs:
Law enforcement has issued a warning about the use of Smartphone Scanner Applications and the real possibility that conversations are being monitored. http://lnkd.in/RgUBaX
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Date:
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Title:
Espionage by provincial politicians?
Briefs:
On the eve of the G20 summit, the head of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Richard Fadden, levied vague allegations that they suspect several provincial politicians of spying for foreign countries.
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Date:
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Title:
200,000 Documents on Wikileaks
Briefs:
Did you hear about the 200,000 doc/pages being exfiltrated from the State Department and being said/threatened to be posted by the guy that started Wikileaks? Some of these documents are sensitive while other are said to be classified.
DoD, State, the entire Intel community is looking for him they want to talk to him (Silence him)!!!
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