International Business Times
Several other Russian websites were also hit with cyber-attack on Wednesday but managed to stay online. The two websites were unavailable for almost an hour on Wednesday, May 9. Anonymous had previously threatened to disrupt Russian government ...
International Business Times
Virgin Media website 'hit by cyber attack' following Pirate Bay block
Digital Spy UK
Virgin Media has become the target of a denial of service attack made by opponents of its recent block of the Pirate Bay website. The cyber attack forced Virgin Media to take its website offline while services were restored, reports BBC News.
DHS: Hackers Mounting Organized Cyber Attack on US Gas Pipelines
ABC News
For the past six months, an unidentified group of hackers has been mounting an ongoing, coordinated cyber attack on the control systems of US gas pipelines, prompting the Department of Homeland Security to issue alerts. According to US officials, ...
ABC News
US warns over cyber attacks on natural gas companies
Fox News
The US Department of Homeland Security identified a series of cyber attacks targeting natural gas companies in recent months, raising a red flag over potential threats to the nation's infrastructure. The agency's Industrial Control Systems Cyber ...
Cyber Briefings 'Scare The Bejeezus' Out Of CEOs
NPR
Keith Alexander, head of the US military's Cyber Command. The meeting was part of a public-private partnership dubbed the "Enduring Security Framework" that was launched at the end of 2008. The initiative brings chief executives from top technology and ...
2 Teens Arrested in Norway in Cyber Attack Case
ABC News
Police attorney Erik Moestue told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the attacks targeted the websites of Norwegian bank DNB and the Norwegian Police Security Service as well as betting and news sites in Norway. He declined to name the websites ...
US Says Natural Gas Pipelines Under Cyber Attack
Voice of America (blog)
US security officials say that the country's natural gas pipeline operators have been targeted in a series of cyber attacks over the last several months. The country's Homeland Security agency said Tuesday the attacks involve “sophisticated ...
US probing cyber attacks on gas pipelines
Turkish Press
A campaign of cyber attacks has been targeting US natural gas pipeline operators, officials acknowledged, raising security concerns about vulnerabilities in key infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security "has been working since March 2012 with ...
US Gas Pipelines under Cyber Attack, Says DHS
OilPrice.com
By Jen Alic | Wed, 09 May 2012 00:32 | 0 The Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert warning that computer networks connected to privately-owned natural gas pipelines are presently under cyber attack in an “intrusion campaign” that began ...
Risk of cyberattacks clouds natural gas boom
Politico
Representing the administration at the briefing were Sean Kanuck, national intelligence officer for cyber issues from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Dennis Bartko, the special assistant for cybersecurity at the NationalSecurity ...
Politico
Figuring DDoS Attack Risks Into IT Security Budgets
Forbes
As cyber security moves from a purely technical issue to a major business concern, CIOs are faced with the thorny problem of how to best protect their company without over-spending onsecurity. Security is about protecting confidentiality, ...
Avaaz President Answers Cyber Attack Doubters
TechWeekEurope UK
When protest body Avaaz claimed to have been hit by a “massive” cyber attack last week and asked for money to help it increase its security, it struck TechWeekEurope, its readers and others that this was a somewhat inventive method of getting money for ...
TechWeekEurope UK
U.S. probing cyber attacks on gas pipelines
Mother Nature Network
By Agence France-PresseTue, May 08 2012 at 1:10 PM EST WASHINGTON — A series of cyber attacks has been targeting US natural gas pipeline operators, officials acknowledged on May 8, raising concerns among security experts about vulnerabilities in key ...
Mother Nature Network
Don't Forget The Cyber Criminals
Forbes
There is a dizzying array of exploits, attack vectors, ransom attempts and social manipulation that blanket cyber crime is now using to access personal information. An ever growing swarm of highly-advanced malware, which continually morphs to stay ...
U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Companies Targeted in Major Cyber Attacks
eSecurity Planet
By Jeff Goldman | May 07, 2012 The Christian Science Monitor's Mark Clayton reports that the US Department of Homeland Security has issued confidential alerts stating that a "major cyber attack" is currently hitting computer networks at natural gas ...
eSecurity Planet
eIQnetworks Unveils IT Security Solution To Strike Back Against Cyber Attacks
Dark Reading
May 7, 2012 – Despite all the promises made by SIEM vendors over the last decade, enterprisesecurity analysts often have no way to know if their IT systems have been compromised by an advanced persistent threat (APT) or insider attack.
Debate Slows New U.S. Cyber Rules
Federal Times
By ZACHARY FRYER-BIGGS | Last Updated:May 7, 2012 Despite the ongoing concern about the escalating pace of cyber attacks, a new set of standing rules of engagement for cyberoperations — policy guidelines that would specify how the Pentagon would ...
Cyber attacks: Have India's neighbours turned culprits?
CIOL
These numbers point to how security measures have often failed organisations, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attacks. A renowned Indian company came undercyber attack recently when its website was unaccessible for hours. What was more serious was ...
CIOL
DHS: Gas Pipeline Industry Under Significant Ongoing Cyberattack
PCWorld
ICS-CERT, whose job at DHS is to interact with the nation's utilities and manufacturing firms that use industrial control systems and help them assess possible cyberattacks, is referring to it as the "Gas Pipeline Cyber Intrusion Campaign.
CISPA Disappoints in the End
Heritage.org
By Paul Rosenzweig As the House began its consideration of cybersecurity legislation last month, there was reason to be optimistic about the course that the House Leadership and the House Intelligence Committee had set. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing ...
DHS Sounds Alarm on Gas Line Cyberthreat
TechNewsWorld
For months, the nation's natural gas pipeline industry has been under persistent cyber attackfrom unknown parties, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed this week. "DHS's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ...
US defense chief: Cyber attacks affect 'both nations'
Jakarta Post
Based on this understanding, the defense ministers of the two nations vowed to work together on cyber security issues to avoid miscalculations that could lead to future crises, after a meeting in the Pentagon marking the first visit by a Chinese ...
US government warns over gas pipeline cyberattacks
TechEye
Gas pipelines have been targeted by cyber attacks according to the US Department of Homeland Security, raising fresh fears over the safety of infrastructure. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) arm of DoHS has ...
TechEye
All netizens should learn more about cyber security
Malaysia Star
Cyber space is one huge wilderness. One can get lost or get into trouble without a survival guide. CyberSecurity Malaysia is actively acting as the compass. I would like to thankCyberSecurity Malaysia for its great job in cyber security awareness.
Sandia offers framework for characterizing cyber threats
FierceGovernmentIT
Many organizations have fallen into the practice of creating and sharing lists of cyber threats, or malevolent actors. But few can describe these cyber threats and even fewer have established a way to measure them in a meaningful way, say authors of a ...
Targeted Attack Infiltrates At Least 20 Companies
Dark Reading
In its research into the attacks -- dubbed Project Enlightenment -- security intelligence firmCyber Squared managed to infiltrate the attackers' communications channel and gather information on the attacks, says the firm's CEO Adam Vincent.
Spear-phishing attacks hit gas pipeline networks
GCN.com
By William Jackson A Homeland Security Department cyber response team focusing on industrial control systems has issued a warning to the natural gas pipeline industry of targeted cyberattacks that have compromised some networks.
HP warns of large scale cyber war
Fudzilla
Maker of expensive printer ink, HP's CEO Meg Whitman warned that organisations need to prepare for a lobal cyber-attack that could have large-scale repercussions. Whitman believes a "cyber-attack of 9/11 scale" is likely to take place in the near ...
US OPENING NEWS INCLUDING: A sophisticated cyber attack on US natural gas ...
Proactive Investors UK
A sophisticated cyber attack on US natural gas pipelines has been underway for several months, according to the Dept. of Homeland Security, raising fresh fears about the vulnerability of the system to hackers. Brazil's oil and natural gas output fell ...
Cybercrime in Canada said to be skyrocketing
CBC.ca
A growing number of malicious sites are hosted on Canada's internet service providers, allowing criminals to carry out cyber attacks on Canadian and international users. Computer security terms: Phishing is a technique in which criminals try to trick ...
CBC.ca
DHS: Hackers Mounting Organized Cyber Attack on US Gas ...
By cBruno
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — For the past six months, an unidentified group of hackers has been mounting an ongoing, coordinated cyber attack on the control systems of U.S. gas pipelines, prompting the Department of Homeland ... Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) is working with affected organizations to prepare mitigation plans customized to their current network and security configurations to detect, mitigate and prevent such threats.” ...
Talk Radio 600 WBOB Jacksonville,...
US probing cyber attacks on gas pipelines | Defense Technology ...
By Agence France-Presse
A campaign of cyber attacks has been targeting US natural gas pipeline operators, officials acknowledged, raising security concerns about vulnerabilities in key. ... He said the attack“involves sophisticated spear-phishing activities targeting personnel within the private companies” and added that the FBI and other federal agencies are assisting in the probe. Spear-phishing is a technique used to target a specific company or organization by sending fake emails designed to get ...
DefenceTalk News and Videos
Homeland Security probing cyber attacks on U.S. gas pipelines ...
By Agence France-Presse
The Department of Homeland Security “has been working since March 2012 with critical infrastructure owners and operators in the oil and natural gas sector to address a series ofcyber intrusions targeting natural gas pipeline companies,” DHS spokesman Peter Boogaard said in an email ... He said the attack “involves sophisticated spear-phishing activities targeting personnel within the private companies” and added that the FBI and other federal agencies are assisting in the probe.
The Raw Story
Cyber-spying Bill Still Threatens
By DownsizeDC.org
Doesn't regulation impose compliance costs that an enterprise might otherwise spend on innovative cybersecurity solutions? * Each company has an interest in protecting itself fromcyber threats, doesn't it? Why then, is regulation necessary?
DownsizeDC.org
Cyber Briefings 'Scare The Bejeezus' Out Of CEOs - WNYC
By Tom Gjelten
Among the computer attack tools discussed during the briefings are some of the cyberweapons developed by the National Security Agency and the Cyber Command for use against U.S. adversaries. Military and intelligence officials are ...
The latest stories from www.wnyc.org
produceideas: Last CFP- CyberSecurity - Malaysia - IEEE
By Marcio
Last CFP- CyberSecurity - Malaysia - IEEE. Posted by Marcio at 8:20 PM Tuesday, May 8, 2012. The International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and. Digital Forensic (CyberSec2012) University Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, ...
produceideas
SCADACON (ICS Readiness Condition)
By Dale G Peterson
All it takes is any cyber attack on a company with some link to the critical infrastructure? ...Monitoring and detection of ICS specific attacks is key, and fortunately it is an area that is getting increasing attention in the ICS security community.
Digital Bond's SCADA Security Portal
CERT Warns Of Cyber Threats To Gas Pipelines | threatpost
By Paul Roberts
Cybersecurity legislation has been high on the agenda for policy-makers in Washington, D.C. this year. But much of that legislation has fallen victim to partisan wrangling over the degree to which cyber security should be mandated, or merely ...
threatpost - The First Stop for...
Essential Reading: Strategic Cyber Security by Kenneth Geers
By Mark Boudreau
with the disruptive capabilities of cyber attackers – now threatens national and internationalsecurity. Strategic challenges require strategic solutions. The author examines four nation-state approaches to cyber attack mitigation: • Internet ...
Digital Rights Watch
US, China Defense Heads Agree To Cyber Collaboration
By Katelyn Noland
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chinese defense leader Liang Guanglie met Monday in Washington to discuss territorial disputes in the South China Sea, arms sales to Taiwan, North Korea's nuclear program and cybersecurity. ... Liang denied that China was the main source ofcyber attacks against the U.S., the report said. Panetta also ... China was largely pointed to as the culprit, while Northrop Grumman called China the biggest threat to U.S. cyber infrastructuresecurity.
The New New Internet
Anonymous Downs Virgin Media Site Over Pirate Bay Censorship
By The Huffington Post News Editors
... the highest profile... Timeline Of Anonymous And Affiliates Cyber Attacks. (Reuters) - The arrests of six suspected leaders of the loose-knit international hacking group Anonymouscomes after a long string of cyber vandalism against major.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Black Ops Two Finally Announced! | Socyberty
By SoccerSkilz
Setting: Set in 2025 the turmoil between the United States and China grows stronger after acyber-attack crippling the Chinese Stock Exchange. Unmanned vehicles, cyber-warfare, and robotics have changed the definition of war completely.
Socyberty
BreakingPoint FireStorm ONE Enables Massive-Scale Security ...
By Mike Lennon
Continuously validate performance and security to avoid IT risk as their networks change. • Train and certify cyber warriors to predict and prevent attack. • Perform on-the-go cyber securityresearch and simulations to keep ahead of the latest ...
SecurityWeek RSS Feed
New NDAA Would Give the Military Clandestine Cyberwar Powers ...
By Donny Shaw
''(2) to defend against a cyber attack against an asset of the Department of Defense. ''(c ) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary of Defense to conduct military activities in ...
Open Congress : Blog
Government warns of increased cyber attack threat during Olympics ...
Francis Maude claims Games will make UK a prime target for cyber criminals, Government, Security, Law ,Olympics, Government, Hacking.
www.v3.co.uk/.../government-warns-increased-cyber-attack-th...
Follow @sobeqorg
