“China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) and Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) on Monday jointly issued a legal interpretation that aims to fight hacking and other Internet crimes more aggressively. According to a statement released jointly by the SPC and SPP, a crime endangering information network security poses a threat not only to network security but also [...]
“An international cybercrime gang stole $13 million from a Florida-based financial institution earlier this year, by executing a highly-coordinated heist in which thieves used ATMs around the globe to cash out stolen prepaid debit cards, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.” Source: Coordinated ATM Heist Nets Thieves $13M — Krebs on Security
“At least 85% of the targeted cyber intrusions that the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) responded to in 2010 could have been prevented by following the first four mitigation strategies listed in our Top 35 Mitigation Strategies: Patch applications such as PDF readers, Microsoft Office, Java, Flash Player and web browsers. Patch operating system vulnerabilities. Minimise [...]
“A standard, even boring, piece of Chinese military propaganda screened in mid-July included what must have been an unintended but nevertheless damaging revelation: shots from a computer screen showing a Chinese military university is engaged in cyberwarfare against entities in the United States. The documentary itself was otherwise meant as praise to the wisdom and [...]
“A yearlong probe into computer fraud at an immigration application processing center uncovered multiple incidents of internal hacking where staff accessed management-level emails and other confidential files, according to Homeland Security Department interviews, network analyses and internal emails obtained by Nextgov. The investigation began in January 2008, when officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, [...]
“The Defense Department is in the midst of a major transformation of all its business operations, driven by new budget and battlefield realities. The Army has its own part to play in that transformation, which is why it recently launched a major initiative to revolutionize the way it uses technology to support soldiers on the [...]
“Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the files were summaries that spelled out, in painstaking detail, a trucker’s crushed fingers, a maintenance worker’s broken ribs and one man’s bout with [...]
“Security professionals need to step back from the technology and look at how these real-world systems — from prisons to power plants — are designed, said Tom Parker, vice president of security services at FusionX, a computer security company. “We’re making the same mistakes over and over again,” he said, adding that these at-risk networking [...]
” “You can do a Google search with your Web browser and start operating [circuit] breakers, potentially,” Parker, chief technology officer at security consultancy FusionX, told CNET in a break during the workshop on “Building, Attacking And Defending SCADA Systems in the Age of Stuxnet.”” Source: Researchers warn of SCADA equipment discoverable via Google | [...]
“Israel has set up a military cyber command to wage a computer war against Iran as senior officers become increasingly concerned that a conventional attack on Tehran’s nuclear sites could end in failure, London’s The Sunday Times reported.” Source: Israeli Military Reportedly Plotting to Cripple Iran in Cyberspace – FoxNews.com
