“Beijing hotly denies accusations of official involvement in massive cyberattacks against foreign targets, insinuating such activity is the work of rogues. But at least one element cited by Internet experts points to professional cyberspies: China’s hackers take the weekend off. Accusations of state-sanctioned hacking took center stage this past week following a detailed report by [...]
“Computer experts have warned that the UK faces a two decade long period of ineffective cyber defences as the country struggles to plug a skills gap of trained IT specialists to manage existing infrastructure.” Source:Analysts warn Britain faces 20 year cyber-attack threat | The Drum
“Google Chairman Eric Schmidt uses a new book to call China an Internet menace that backs cyber-crime for economic and political gain, reports say. The New Digital Age – due for release in April – reportedly brands China ‘the world’s most active and enthusiastic filterer of information’.” Source:BBC News – Google boss Schmidt labels China [...]
“President Vladimir Putin recently ordered the Federal Security Service to create a system to allow the state to detect, prevent and disable cyberattacks in Russia and at diplomatic stations abroad. It is an ambitious goal and one that the FSB is well-equipped to tackle with the help of its Information Security Center and Communications Security Center. But the FSB might very well go beyond its immediate mandate to neutralize hacker attacks against Russia [...]
“The Twitter account of Somali militant group al-Shabab has been suspended, after it was used to threaten to kill Kenyan hostages. Al-Shabab launched its Twitter account in December 2011, after Kenyan troops went into Somalia to combat it.” Source:BBC News – Somalia’s al-Shabab Twitter account suspended
“It was at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos six years ago that I first became seriously worried about the credit bubble. It was clear back then, in January 2007, that problems were developing in complex credit. But it was also clear that the public and private sector were in widespread denial.” Source:Time to [...]
“A broad variety of the latest firewall, spam filter and VPN appliances sold by Campbell, Calif. based Barracuda Networks Inc. contain undocumented backdoor accounts, the company disclosed today. Worse still, while the backdoor accounts are apparently set up so that they would only be accessible from Internet addresses assigned to Barracuda, they are in fact [...]
“About one-third of the world’s cyber attack traffic was traced back to China, according to a report by Akamai Technologies to be published today. Between July and September of last year, about 33 percent of the attacks originated in China, double the percentage in the previous quarter, the report said.” Source:One-Third of Cyber Attack Traffic Originates [...]
“Security researchers say they have discovered a huge botnet running on the smartphones of more than a million unsuspecting mobile users in China. The devices had been infected by a Trojan-based attack first discovered in 2011, news agency Xinhua reported.” Source:BBC News – China mobile users warned about large botnet threat
“The armed forces are now so dependent on information technology that their ability to operate could be ‘fatally compromised’ by a sustained cyber attack, MPs warned today. The Commons Defence Committee said the cyber threat to UK security had the ability to evolve at ‘almost unimaginable speed’ and questioned whether the Government had the capacity to deal [...]
