The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
One of the trickiest problems in cyber security is trying to figure who’s really behind an attack. Darpa, the Pentagon agency that created the Internet, is trying to fix that, with a new effort to develop the “cyber equivalent of fingerprints or DNA” that can identify even the best-cloaked hackers.
The recent malware hit on Google [...] Read more »
IT security and control firm Sophos is again calling on Twitter to enforce the use of strong passwords by its members following reports that another celebrity account has been hacked. This time the victim is Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus, daughter of ‘Achy breaky heart’ legend Billy Ray Cyrus.
Last year Cyrus was the subject of [...] Read more »
As a nation, almost every aspect of our existence is dependent on reliable and secure technology. Having accurate data is important, but without the critical back-bone that is the internet and the power that makes our technology work, we are dead in the water. Worse yet, we continue to spend billions of dollars in Iraq, [...] Read more »
Whether it’s Chinese hackers breaking into the Gmail accounts of leading dissidents, or Russian hackers sniffing around the Pentagon, the cyber wars are heating up. Barack Obama entered office vowing to wage them more effectively than ever before.
“From now on, our digital infrastructure — the networks and computers we depend on every day — will [...] Read more »
Gerald Posner, who is known worldwide for being the chief investigative reporter of The Daily Beast, the American news reports and opinion website published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and a friend of the region’s journalists who wee with the Press Foundation of Asia, recently wrote about “China’s [...] Read more »
Everyone must be aware of the risks that cybercrime and cyber-terrorism poses, as ignorance may lead to huge losses and even endanger lives. This was the unanimous response from the participants of the inaugural EC-Council Asia Pacific Roundtable Forum (ECC|RF) earlier this month.
EC-Council, the worldwide e-business and security certification organization, hosted the inaugural Roundtable Forum [...] Read more »
Google and the Chinese government are once again discussing the fate of the search giant’s presence in that country, according to a report.
The Wall Street Journal reported recently that talks have resumed after a pause for the Chinese New Year. It’s been about six weeks since Google forced a showdown with the government by declaring [...] Read more »
A freelance security consultant in China wrote the exploit code targeting Internet Explorer 6 that was used in the attacks on Google and others, according to a published report.
The unidentified programmer had posted pieces of the exploit to a hacking forum, and Chinese officials had “special access” to his work, the Financial Times reported on [...] Read more »
Two days after a New York Times report linked two Chinese schools to hack attacks on Google and other Silicon Valley companies, both schools are denying those claims.
Security experts traced the attacks to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School, The New York Times reported Thursday. But on Saturday, according to the Associated [...] Read more »
US investigators are hot on the trail of an enigmatic Chinese hacker who allegedly developed the “critical” programming code used to attack Google and other western companies.
According to the Financial Times, positive identification of the accused hacker would make it “far harder” for the Chinese government to deny its involvement in the recent cyber offensive.
“A [...] Read more »
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