The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
The New York Times is reporting that computer hackers stole a program that controlled access to most of Google’s services when they attacked the Internet company late last year.
The report posted late Monday on the Times’ Web site provided more details about an intrusion that provoked a politically charged showdown between Google and China’s government [...] Read more »
Andrei is a young man with immense power at his fingertips. He’s a reformed Russian hacker.
Back hunched, eyes fixed on the computer screen in front of him, he demonstrates what he can do.
“Look, here’s the log-in and the password,” he says, pulling up a Georgian government website.
“This site has already been hacked, I’m just demonstrating [...] Read more »
The US is in the process of creating a unified cyber command, to fight the wars of the future. The Pentagon has no doubt that the next conventional war will include a cyber element.
Looking out of a window in London’s Canary Wharf, Daniel Kuehl gestures randomly towards a high-rise.
What is SuperPower?
“Let’s just assume that somewhere [...] Read more »
A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Colleen R LaRose was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in [...] Read more »
Have you been hearing a lot of gloom-and-doom talk about the need for American “cyberwar” preparedness lately? The coming cyberwar threat? Cybergeddon?
Me too.
Wired’s Ryan Singel makes a good case in this article that cyberwar hype — like terrorism hype — has been fuelled by government contractors who have a product to sell, and who don’t [...] Read more »
Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing.
“There is no cyberwar,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.
“I think that is [...] Read more »
China-based hackers stole Indian national security information, 1,500 e-mails from the Dalai Lama’s office and other sensitive documents, a new report said Tuesday.
Researchers at the University of Toronto said they were able to observe the hacking and trace it to core servers located in China and to people based in the southwestern city of Chengdu. [...] Read more »
Vietnam has dismissed what it called “groundless” implications it used malicious computer programs to hack Web sites and spy on political opponents.
Google Inc. said in a post last week on its security blog that software known as “malware” was used to snoop on opponents of a controversial bauxite mine planned for Vietnam’s Central Highlands. It [...] Read more »
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, March 11 (UPI) — Turkish police rounded up more than 20 suspects in 13 provinces on allegations of computer hacking and ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
Police in the predominately Kurdish city of Diyarbakir launched operations in the region Wednesday, arresting 24 suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
The [...] Read more »
nternet giant Google says malicious software has been used to spy on tens of thousands of Vietnamese web users.
The company said the cyber attacks appeared to target opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam.
Google said the malware was “damaging” but less sophisticated than recent attacks at the heart of the company’s dispute with China.
But computer security [...] Read more »
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