Date:
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Title:
Spy Arrested
Briefs:
On June 20, Taiwan arrested a former Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB) analyst on charges of spying for Beijing. Retired Col. Wang Hui-hsien was arrested after being questioned by Taiwan High Court prosecutors, becoming the latest example of a former government official who moved to China to go into business, then faced charges of selling state secrets.
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Date:
Monday, June 30, 2008
Title:
Lithuania under cyber attack
Briefs:
Monday, Lithuania faced a concerted cyber assault by pro-Russian hackers amid a some rough spots in relations between the Baltic state and its Soviet-era master. The national communication regulator’s office said some 300 Web sites, including those of public institutions such as the national ethics body and the securities & exchange commission, as well as a string of companies, had found themselves under cyber attack. Web site content was altered or replaced with images of the red flag of the Soviet Union, alongside anti-Lithuanian slogans.
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Date:
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Title:
Russian Hackers Unite
Briefs:
Broad appeals in Russian Internet forums and chat rooms, are calling for Russian hackers to unite and launch a large-scale attack on Internet websites of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian government institutions. The hackers in the country have decided to unite and counter the impudent actions of Western superpowers. They stated they are fed up with NATO's encroachment on our motherland, they have had enough of Ukrainian politicians who have forgotten their nation and only think about their own interests. They are also fed up with Estonian government institutions that blatantly re-write history and support fascism, says the appeal that is being circulated on Russian Internet forums.
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Date:
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Title:
Marshall Islands email attack
Briefs:
Email service in the Marshall Islands was paralysed Tuesday after hackers launched a "BotNet" computer attack on the western Pacific nation's only Internet service provider, officials said. The attack starting early Tuesday, in which hackers used computers taken over by viruses to flood the Internet provider with spam emails, caused a complete shutdown of email traffic into the nation of around 55,000 people. More than 18 hours after the initial attack Tuesday incoming email service to the monopoly provider had still not been restored.
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Date:
Friday, June 20, 2008
Title:
Dress Rehearsal
Briefs:
Israel carried out a major military exercise earlier this month that American officials say appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Several American officials said the Israeli exercise appeared to be an effort to develop the military’s capacity to carry out long-range strikes and to demonstrate the seriousness with which Israel views Iran’s nuclear program.
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Date:
Friday, June 20, 2008
Title:
Businesses to be advised to secure chemicals
Briefs:
The federal government will tell 7,000 businesses next week that they are considered high risk-terrorist targets because they house large amounts of chemicals. The sites — which range from major chemical plants to universities, food processing centers and hospitals — will need to complete a vulnerability assessment so the government can decide how to regulate their security measures in the future. U.S. intelligence officials say terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, favor chemical attack methods because of the severe consequences they can inflict.
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Date:
Friday, June 20, 2008
Title:
Liquid Explosives in Mail Boxes
Briefs:
The United States Postal Service is warning residents of Maine about liquid explosives placed in curbside mailboxes. Residents received a postcard informing them that postal carriers do not place soda bottles or other plastic containers containing liquid into mailboxes. They are warned to use extreme caution if anything suspicious is found in their mailboxes.
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Date:
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Title:
Cyber Jihad Unit
Briefs:
The Palestinian Islamist movement, Islamic Jihad, says it has a new division of its armed Al-Quds Brigades - a cyberwar unit that claims it has hacked into the websites of several Israeli media outlets.
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Date:
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Title:
Former Joint Chiefs Chair Warns of Cyber Attacks
Briefs:
Peter Pace, retired Marine general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said publically Cyber-attacks on business and government computer systems pose a real threat to U.S. security and the economy. Pace also said, Government and business both need to step up efforts to anticipate and ward off computer threats whether they are from malicious hackers, terrorists or adversary nations.
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Date:
Friday, June 06, 2008
Title:
An Israeli attack on Iranian ?????
Briefs:
An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks "unavoidable" given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputies said on Friday June 6th, 2008.
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Date:
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Title:
Cyber attack origionation
Briefs:
During the quarter, 14.33% of the global cyber attacks originated from the US, followed by Taiwan at 11.82% and Venezuela at 8.89%
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Date:
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Title:
The do it yourself Nuclear Bomb kit
Briefs:
Nuclear bomb blueprints and manuals on how to manufacture weapons-grade uranium for warheads are feared to be circulating on the international black market, according to investigators tracking the world’s most infamous nuclear smuggling racket.
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Date:
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Title:
India Bombings
Briefs:
India sounded a nationwide alert following serial bomb blasts in Jaipur city Tuesday that killed more than 60 people.
On Tuesday, bomb blasts struck within minutes of each another in the western city of Jaipur, a day after seven bombs killed 80 people and injured 200 others. The Interior Ministry subsequently sent warnings to all states, asking them to increase security at government buildings and busy markets
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Date:
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Title:
Cyber Spy
Briefs:
Late in 2007, China was accused of running international cyber-espionage rings that have gained access to strategic corporate and defence information from countries including Australia, Britain, Germany, India, New Zealand and the US.
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Date:
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Title:
China a Cyber Bully
Briefs:
India and the U.S. share soemthing in common - they both have China as a cyber bully. The U.S. isn’t the only country victimized by cyber espionage that is blaming China. Similar events are happening in India. The U.S. military and intelligence officials say that China “is the U.S.’s biggest cyber menace,” and now the same hold true for India.
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Date:
Friday, April 25, 2008
Title:
Mexican Spy Caught Blackberry Handed
Briefs:
Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press person for the Mexican Delegation was caught stealing multiple BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers that were attending meetings between President George W. Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders in New Orleans this week. Unfortunately, Quintero Curiel was caught after the devices had been in his possession for some time so it is unknown how much information had been compromised.
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Date:
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Title:
Microsoft Acknowledges Cyber Attack Threat
Briefs:
Like many other companies, Microsoft lists "Cyber Attack" in the forward looking statement of their financial filing. See Link Below
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-24-2008/0004799938&EDATE=
Kevin Coleman of Technolytics said working with an expert in corporate legal affairs we were able to determine that "The significant media attention being given to the threat of cyber attack, as well as the fact that a number of high ranking government officials have warned about this threat, suggest that corporations have a duty to assess their exposure to this risk and create a cyber risk mitigation strategy. Failure to do so could constitute negligence due to the fact that in this day and age, cyber attacks are reasonably foreseeable."
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Date:
Monday, April 21, 2008
Title:
Cyber Arms Dealers
Briefs:
Hacking and cyber crime has been professionalized. As such, software tool kits that enable these activities have been packaged for sale and wide dispersion across the Internet. These cyber attack tool kits make it possible to automated hacking, espionage, fraud, and much more. The top hcyber attack tools are now being sold for prices ranging from less than $100 and up to $50,000. Now you won’t believe this. The most advanced packages come with customer support. In at least one case the package includes 12 months of technical support and updates to ensure the kits stay up to date on the latest web vulnerabilities.
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Date:
Monday, April 21, 2008
Title:
School Bombing Plot
Briefs:
The 18 year old student plotted to blow up his high school in a suicide bombing plot. Authorities said he was arrested after his parents called police when 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate - an oxidizing agent in explosives - was delivered to their home in Chesterfield. Police say it was purchased from eBay.
See http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/21/school.bomb.plot/
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Date:
Monday, April 14, 2008
Title:
Hacking gets physical
Briefs:
The first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims began on March 22, 2008 when hackers inserted scripts into hundreds of messages embedded with flashing animated gif images. The hackers increase their efforts and turned to a more effective tactics on Sunday, injecting JavaScript into some posts that redirected users' web browser to an alternate page with a complex image that were specifically designed to trigger seizures in both photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics.
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Date:
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Title:
New Internet Threat Explode
Briefs:
Symantec reported new internet threats rose over 460% in 2007. They also reported how cheap stolen account information is being sold. (see http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080408/ap_on_hi_te/internet_security_threats ) This plus the article on terrorist using stolen credit cards on Defensetech.org
(see http://www.defensetech.org/archives/004105.html) paints a grim picture!
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Date:
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Title:
NATO concerned over cyber attacks
Briefs:
World leaders gathered in Bucharest this week's for the NATO summit. They are debating what role NATO should play in containing ''cyber-terrorists, as well as hacktivists. NATO needs to prepare for a cyber war - systematic attacks on the Web that could disrupt eCommerce worldwide through the use of cyber weapons like computer worms to shut down consumer online services such as Internet banking.
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