“The Twitter war began in earnest Sept. 14, in the midst of a sustained attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and the adjacent headquarters of the U.S.-led international military force.” Source: U.S. military, Taliban use Twitter to wage war – The Washington Post
“Members of the House Homeland Security Committee unveiled legislation Thursday that would authorize the cybersecurity functions of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and establish a quasi-governmental entity to coordinate cybersecurity information-sharing with the private sector. The bill, called the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act (PrECISE), would station a national clearinghouse [...]
“Google and Intel were logical targets for China-based hackers, given the solid-gold intellectual property data stored in their computers. An attack by cyberspies on iBahn, a provider of Internet services to hotels, takes some explaining. “ Source: Business & Technology | China is the No. 1 hacker threat to U.S. firms | Seattle Times Newspaper
“With two weeks remaining before Iowa kicks off the 2012 campaign with its first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, the state Republican Party is taking steps to secure its electronic vote collection system after receiving a mysterious threat to its computers. “ Source: Iowa GOP worried by hacker threat to caucus vote
“To get a feel for how the North’s military has gone about organizing for cyber activities, the best unclassified source I know of remains Christopher Brown’s 2004 Naval Postgraduate School thesis “Developing a Reliable Methodology for Assessing the Computer Network Operations Threat of North Korea.” Brown wrote, by the way, that his thesis was an attempt [...]
““These insiders used their positions to gain access to client data, and then sold that data to make money for themselves and their accomplices,” District Attorney Vance said in a written statement. “We will continue to work with our partners to build significant cases to disrupt identity theft and dismantle these criminal organizations.”” Source: NY [...]
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a security alert Monday for an Ethernet add-on for the Schneider Electric Quantum programmable logic controller (PLC). Such controllers can be used to help manage industrial processes inside everything from physical manufacturing plants and printing presses to prisons and power plants.” Source: Security Researcher Details New SCADA Bugs [...]
“Iran guided the CIA’s “lost” stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone’s systems inside Iran.” Source: Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer – CSMonitor.com
“First, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers calls China out for cyber espionage. Then the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive called Chinese hackers the “world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage.” Now, according to reports by the AP and the WSJ, U.S. intelligence officials have identified a dozen groups [...]
“The House and Senate agreed to give the U.S. military the power to conduct ‘offensive’ strikes online — including clandestine attacks, via a little-noticed provision in the military’s 2012 funding bill.” (Congress Authorizes Pentagon to Wage Internet War | Threat Level | Wired.com)
