Online security risks have become increasingly prevalent with the likes of Anonymous and LulzSec continuing to expose the sorry state of corporate network security, and policymakers are clamoring to “do something” to address the threat. Unfortunately, there is a tendency in Washington to employ the rhetoric of war when talking about …
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Report: Cyber Attacks Against South Korea Were ‘War Drills’ by the North
North Korea has been conducting “drills” for cyberwar against its southern neighbor using simple, but very effective denial-of-service attacks, according to security experts.
A team from McAfee looked into the attacks on South Korean internet networks in July 2009 and March this year, and concluded they were probably efforts by North …
UK Government Under Constant Cyber Attack
The UK government’s computers are subjected to thousands of attempted cyber-attacks every month, the country’s finance minister said today.
The total number averaged out at more than one per day, and that’s just the ones targeted against his department.
George Osborne, the UK’s current Chancellor of the Exchequer, was speaking at
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North Korea Accused of Cyber Terror
It’s a busy tech news day in South Korea. Fresh after the news that Google’s office in Seoul got raided by the authorities comes word that North Korea has launched raids of its own – cyber attacks against its southern enemy.
In an act described by a South Korean prosecutor as “unprecedented cyber terror”, North Korea launched …
Iran Under Fresh Malware Attack
Iran claims to have discovered a new malicious computer virus attacking its government computers.
Little is known about the code other than its nickname – “Stars” – and the fact that Iran’s cyber sleuths have already found it.
Clearly they are on their guard, after the disastrous effects of last year’s Stuxnet worm, widely thought …
U.S. Surveillance, Chinese Espionage and My Impending Lockout from Faceboook
Unsettling developments, on several fronts:
U.S. surveillance. The Obama administration, once again, is reaching farther than its predecessor on electronic surveillance. Now it wants a law requiring internet service providers to keep logs of their customers on the web — all of them, not suspected bad actors — just in case the …
World Web War I: Why Egypt’s Digital Uprising is Different
We’ve seen cyberwar declared before, but the one playing out in Egypt is my own candidate for World Web War I. Hosni Mubarak fired the first shot, switching off the internet and mobile phones after crude attempts to block Twitter and Facebook fell apart. The web fought back in ways we haven’t seen before, and it’s winning.
It no …
Estonia Considers a Nerd Draft to Staff Cyber Army
In 2007, the Baltic republic of Estonia was blindsided by a series of large-scale cyber attacks, crippling the country’s government, financial and media online networks – the world’s first cyberwar. Eventually the origins of the denial of service (DDoS) assaults were traced to Russia, which has led the country to create a Cyber …