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• No Ifs or Bots: if only…

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 568
  I came across a nice article today by Dennis Fisher on “ The Root of the Botnet Epidemic ”. Its the start of what looks like an interesting series on "the roots, growth and effects of the botnet epidemic" and the first aricle takes a historical overview of the situation around the turn of the century, looking at ...
  9 hours ago

• Surviving Cyber War: A Primer on DDoS

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest Jomini’s first maxim of the Art of War: To throw by strategic movements the mass of an army, successively, upon the decisive points of a theater of war, and also upon the communications of the enemy as much as possible without compromising one’s ...
  1 week ago

• RIM Security VP Worried About Smartphone DDOS Attacks – Why?

  
  BerryReview.com — Authority: 633
  I am usually called the paranoid security guy with the tinfoil hat. When I was reading a recent quote by Scott Totzke, RIM’s VP of BlackBerry Security, even I was kind of taken back. He claims that one day hackers could use BlackBerrys/Smartphones to attack wireless networks. This is kind of interesting since it ...
  1 week ago

• ISAlliance: Cyber Security is Economic Issue

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  By Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor Internet Security Alliance President Larry Clinton joined several other prominent information security advocates to provide testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security Tuesday. ...
  1 week ago

• FBI Official Says Terrorists are Seeking Cyber Capabilities

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 428
  According to an FBI official, terrorists are presently attempting to harness the abilities of the internet to conduct cyber attacks. During a statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, the FBI’s deputy assistant director, cyber division, Steven Chabinsky, ...
  1 week ago

• ISAlliance to Testify for Senate Judiciary

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  From The Internet Security Alliance Media Alert: Internet Security Alliance President to Testify at U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA), will testify tomorrow at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Terrorism and Homeland Security ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2010 Defense Authorization Act Spending

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest On October 28th President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (655 page PDF here ). After removing the Department of Energy allotment of $122 million it appears that the DoD is not gearing up in a major ...
  2 weeks ago

• DLP is Short for Disturbing Lack of Process?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates Ted Ritter has suggested that we rename DLP a Disturbing Lack of Process … Indeed DLP is not a well-defined term – since so many vendors (Kaspersky anti-virus, McAfee anti-virus, Symantec anti-virus, Trend Micro Provilla, CA ...
  2 weeks ago

• InfoBore 86

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 432
  China Proves to be an Aggressive Foe in Cyberspace – Ellen Nakashima & John Pomfret, Washington Post Augmented Reality Security Considerations – Doug Crescenzi, MetaSecurity [also at SecureMetaverse - cheers for the link, Doug!] The $9m World-Wide Bank Robbery – Gary Warner, CyberCrime & ...
  2 weeks ago

• ISAlliance To Release Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  From The Internet Security Alliance Who: The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) What: The ISA will release a new cybersecurity report, which proposes frameworks for taking key issues in the Obama Administration’s “Cyberspace Policy Review” document to the next level, in an effort to achieve ...
  2 weeks ago

• Four Pillars of Cyber Warfare: Intelligence

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest There are four pillars to the cyber war realm: intelligence, technology, logistics, and command. One premise is that cyber warfare is a component of the ongoing struggle between philosophies of politics, governance, and markets to be waged by opposing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cyber Jargon YOU Need To Know

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 428
  As the use of the internet and technology grows, so do its terms and definitions. Here is a rundown of today’s most frequently used cyber terms. We left something out? Please feel free to leave a comment below to further enhance our ‘cyber jargon’ glossary. Authentication: Confirms that a computer program ...
  3 weeks ago

• Spyware Profile for Win32.Antibiobot

  
  SpyZooka — Authority: 144
  Win32.Antibiobot will cause serious harm to your computer if not removed immediately.  This pest will enter your system without notice and without your permission.  Secretly this malicious program will sneak in and will then open up a backdoor that will allow a hacker to enter.  Once the hacker has entered it will ...
  3 weeks ago

• Twitter: A Window into #WestIndian Culture

  
  Gen Y PR Prescriptions — Authority: 100
  As an online PR professional, you work with a variety of web based tools, dashboards, platforms, destinations, networks…throw in a few more nouns and you get the point. Business and tech analysts dig into them upon release, a value is assigned to them and their creators, promotion hits hyperdrive and off it goes to ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Anonymous” Attacks: Is the Snake Biting Its Tail?

  
  The Art of the Prank — Authority: 427
  The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology by Julian Dibbell WIRED September 21, 2009 In the evening of January 15, 2008, a 31-year-old tech consultant named Gregg Housh sat down at the computer and paid a visit to one of his favorite Web sites, the message board known as 4chan . Like most of ...
  3 weeks ago

• InfoBore 82

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 432
  Homeland Security Plans Virtual World Terror Attack Simulators – Pixels & Policy Swedish Spooks Knocked Offline By Hack Attack – John Leyden, The Register Second Life Enterprise: Virtual Worlds Behind the Corporate Firewall – Paul Raven, Futurismic The Cyberspace Explosion: Five Tips for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Swedish Signals Intelligence Agency Taken Offline By A Massive DDoS Attack

  
  CyberInsecure.com — Authority: 128
  The website of the Swedish Signals Intelligence agency (Försvarets Radioanstalt, or FRA) was taken offline by a massive DDoS attack this week.Fra.se was intermittently inaccessible from Monday night until Thursday morning, when full service was restored. The agency was in the news recently after Swedish legislators ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sweden’s SIGINT Agency Hit by DDoS

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 428
  Försvarets Radioanstalt (FRA), the SIGINT Agency in Sweden, was subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted from Monday to Thursday according to agency officials. In a statement released by the agency, FRA officials said that the attack did not hamper their ability to conduct their ...
  3 weeks ago

• InfoBore 80

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 432
  US Navy Chief Favors Speeding Up Unmanned Programs – Reuters China Chief Says Space Arms Inevitable: State Media – AFP First Pillar of Cyber Warfare: Intelligence – Richard Stiennon, ThreatChaos A Markoffian Muddle On Microchips? – Alex K. Limburg, IntelFusion Pricing Scheme For a DDoS ...
  3 weeks ago

• Top Five Financial Sector Security Threats

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  By Kevin M. Nixon , Information Security Resources Security Editor It is usual and customary during the 4th Quarter of any year, to think about the potential threats to our financial institutions and corporations, in an effort to get ahead of the curve and stave off additional failures. I have listed my Top 5 ...
  3 weeks ago

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