Forbes
The program known as Flame has fascinated the cybersecurity industry with its sophistication and versatility as a Swiss-Army knife of cyberspying. Now researchers have discovered another unexpected tool in its data-stealing arsenal: You.
Police Probe Cyber Attack on Joongang Ilbo
The Chosun Ilbo
Police are investigating a cyber attack against the Joongang Ilbo daily. The police cyber crimes investigative unit said on Monday that it had received a report that the newspaper's website and the intranet journalists use to file stories had been ...
VP Binay urges cybersecurity upgrades vs 'reality' of cyberattacks
GMA News
Binay stressed this at the end of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Development and Cyber Security Enhancement Workshop of the National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP). "(The Internet has become a) borderless venue of ...
Some Flame code found in Stuxnet virus: experts
Reuters
Later in the day, the largest security firm, Symantec Corp, said it had confirmed that some source code had been shared. The new research could bolster the belief of many securityexperts that Stuxnet was part of a US-led cyber program still active in ...
Suspicions confirmed Flame cyber weapon related to Stuxnet
Examiner.com
Flame cyber weapon targets Iran Two weeks ago Kaspersky Lab described the computer threat formally known as the "Worm.Win32.Flame" as a sophisticated attack toolkit designed to carry out cyber espionage by stealing information from infected machines.
Stuxnet and now Flame: The US and Israel Continuing Cyber War against Iran
NewsClick
Speaking last week on the sidelines of a security conference, Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Lab, which found the Flame virus, said, “"Cyber weapons can replicate, and there could be random victims anywhere around the globe, it doesn't matter ...
Flame code in Stuxnet virus: Security firms
Times of India
Two leading computer security firms have linked some of the software code in the powerful Flame virus to the Stuxnet cyber weapon, which was widely believed to have been used by the United States and Israel to attack Iran's nuclear programme.
Pyongyang suspected in media cyber attack
Hong Kong Standard
A South Korean newspaper says it has been the victim of a major cyber attack, less than a week after North Korea threatened it and other Seoul media. Police are investigating Pyongyang's possible involvement in the hacking of the news site and database ...
Cyber-Ark Global Security Survey: Privileged Account Exploitation the Common ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- According to the results of Cyber-Ark(R) Software's annual global IT security survey, businesses recognize that the exploitation of privileged account access played a prominent role in most of the world's most ...
Flame and Stuxnet share certain portions of same code
gulfnews.com
... Staff Reporter DUBAI: Security experts have linked some of the software code in the powerful 'Flame' virus, which has been raging in the Middle East, to the Stuxnet cyber weapon, which reportedly was used by the United States and Israel to attack ...
Why did President Obama destroy plausible deniability on cyber warfare?
Daily Caller
... released classified national security information. Yet The New York Times recently published firsthand reports of President Obama's approval of the Stuxnet cyber-attack on Iran. Is President Obama suggesting that The Times concocted these reports?
'New age' of cyber threat warning
Sky News Australia
'New age' of cyber threat warning Updated: 05:41, Tuesday June 12, 2012 Last month, ITsecurity firm Kaspersky Lab uncovered the powerful Flame virus. Speaking at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms summit in London, the firm's CEO Eugene ...
Stuxnet and Flame share code, development teams
PC Advisor
By Ellen Messmer | Network World US | 11 June 12 The recently discovered Flame cyber-espionage malware has a direct connection to the Stuxnet malware used to attackprogrammable logic controllers at Iranian nuclear facilities two years ago, ...
Marsh survey finds companies confused over cyber risk
Insurance Age
However, over half (54%) did not know if their organisation had been subjected to acyber attack in the same period. Results of the survey from the broking giant at its recent CMT conference also showed that just 41% of respondents said their ...
Insurance Age
Cyber attacks don't worry Americans
89.3 KPCC
Computers run the world, but what would happen if a cyber attack pulled the plug on everything that keeps cities running? A new Washington Post poll suggests Americans aren't concerned about cybersecurity with four out of ten people deeming a major ...
89.3 KPCC
UMd., Northrop Grumman Develop Cybersecurity Partnership
NBC4 Washington
29, 2011 file photo, cyber security analysts work in the "watch and warning center" during the first tour of the government's secretive cyber defense lab, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The HomelandSecurity Department's Control System Security Program ...
Scale of cyber-attacks on Iran further unveiled with Flame Stuxnet link
Telegraph.co.uk
By Peter Foster, Washington Russian cyber-security experts said they had found concrete evidence linking the two computer worms “Stuxnet” and “Flame”, indicating that both were creations of highly sophisticated government agency.
Telegraph.co.uk
Operation Cyber Child: NASA engineer, Disney security guard among those busted ...
WTSP 10 News
One of them was a security guard at Disney. Another was active military and wanted to "buy" a 14-year-old little girl, according to his arrest report. Detectives worked for a week in an undercover upscale home in Haines City, chatting with predators ...
WTSP 10 News
Internal security breaches cause businesses most concern
ChannelBiz
Research from information security experts Cyber-Ark shows that internal threats are causing businesses more concern than external attacks. While there is a growing awareness of the threat posed by external threats, 74 percent believe that the threat ...
ChannelBiz
Some Flame code found in Stuxnet virus-expert
Reuters AlertNet
By Jim Finkle and Joseph Menn June 11 (Reuters) - A leading computer security firm has linked some of the software code in the powerful Flame virus to the Stuxnet cyber weapon, which reportedly was used by the United States and Israel to attack Iran's ...
Break the impasse on cybersecurity
The Hill
The key players on this do not mince words: President Obama has called the “cyber threat ... one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation … America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on ...
How to Put the Security Screws to Software Vendors
Wall Street Journal (blog)
If company data is stolen as a result of a successful cyber attack, the CIO is sure to take the blame, even if the attackers used vulnerabilities in software the CIO had nothing to do with developing. That's why experts say CIOs should ask vendors to ...
Former WH national security deputy: Pyongyang may be behind cyber-attacks in ...
Daily Caller
(AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) A former White House national security expert told The Daily Caller that recent cyber-attacks launched against South Korean newspapers could have been the work of North Korea.
Daily Caller
Creators Push The Self-Destruct Button On Flame Virus
CrazyEngineers VoiCE
The news of Virus surfaced last week, with many cyber-security experts describing it as one of the most thought out attacks of all time. The spy malware operates by presenting a fake digital certificate cheating the the user by posing as a code ...
Flame and Stuxnet linked by shared 'resource 207' module, says Kaspersky
CSO Magazine
Security experts have been hunting like crazy for a link between the Stuxnet cyber-malware from 2010 and an even more mysterious follow-up called Flame found only days ago and now Kaspersky Lab thinks it has found it. If Kaspersky Lab gets any more ...
Data on Canadian Officials Stolen in Attack on Stratfor
Bloomberg
Security Strategy The government released a “cyber security strategy” in October 2010, in which it pledged to better secure public-sector computer systems. The Public Safety department established the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre to ...
Trustwave Takes On Targeted Attacks With New Security Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
... provider of cloud-based compliance and information security solutions, today unveiled new and enhanced security solutions that help organizations protect against the growing number of stealthy and sophisticated targeted cyber security attacks.
Fastmetrics Selects Corero's DDoS Defense Technology to Detect and Mitigate ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The solution is built on Corero's fourth-generation network security platform, which features Three-Dimensional Protection (3DP) against network-borne cyber threats, including malware, unwanted access and DDoS. "The unfortunate truth is that ISPs and ...
Flame and Stuxnet, the union is strength | Security Affairs
By paganinip
Security is everyone's responsibility ... The announcement made by Eugene Kaspersky confirms that the Flame malware share with Stuxnet the same cyber project developed to attack country in the Middle East and in particular the Iran.
Security Affairs
CSO Magazine
Security experts have been hunting like crazy for a link between the Stuxnet cyber-malware from 2010 and an even more mysterious follow-up called Flame found only days ago and now Kaspersky Lab thinks it has found it. If Kaspersky Lab gets any more ...
Data on Canadian Officials Stolen in Attack on Stratfor
Bloomberg
Security Strategy The government released a “cyber security strategy” in October 2010, in which it pledged to better secure public-sector computer systems. The Public Safety department established the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre to ...
Trustwave Takes On Targeted Attacks With New Security Solutions
MarketWatch (press release)
... provider of cloud-based compliance and information security solutions, today unveiled new and enhanced security solutions that help organizations protect against the growing number of stealthy and sophisticated targeted cyber security attacks.
Fastmetrics Selects Corero's DDoS Defense Technology to Detect and Mitigate ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The solution is built on Corero's fourth-generation network security platform, which features Three-Dimensional Protection (3DP) against network-borne cyber threats, including malware, unwanted access and DDoS. "The unfortunate truth is that ISPs and ...
Flame and Stuxnet, the union is strength | Security Affairs
By paganinip
Security is everyone's responsibility ... The announcement made by Eugene Kaspersky confirms that the Flame malware share with Stuxnet the same cyber project developed to attack country in the Middle East and in particular the Iran.
Security Affairs
Police Probe Cyber Attack on Joongang Ilbo | NK News
By AdminGMT
Cyber-Security ·. Police are investigating a cyber attack against the Joongang Ilbo daily. The police cyber crimes investigative unit said on Monday that it had received a report that the newspaper's website and the intranet journalists use to file ...
NK News
'New age' of cyber threat warning | Technology | BigPond News
The head of the I.T. Security firm which uncovered the Flame virus has warned of a 'new age' of cyberwars. ... Everything is managed by I.T. so a professionally designed cyber attack could get us back to the pre-electric age. I'm afraid it's so ...
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Ban won't stop cyber bullying, says principal | CityNews
By CityNews
CANBERRA Girls Grammar School are attempting to counteract cyber bullying by encouraging more internet devices in the classroom as part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Week. “Continuing to ban the Internet ...
CityNews
Iran claims US Hackers attacked their Oil Industry « To Inform is to ...
By Joel Harding
Now that Stuxnet has been linked to the US as an American project, the US is being blamed for more cyber attacks. ... As to the effectiveness of the attack the report states: ... from → cyber security, Cybersecurity, Information operations, Iran ...
To Inform is to Influence
A third of NZ's top employers back Netsafe on cybersecurity week ...
Central to the initiative in cybersecurity awareness is a website which has a separate identity from the main Netsafe website, to concentrate on security advice. The expense of establishing ...“The centre has three main initial functions, Adams says: “to provide advice and support to help develop secure network; to detect and respond to sophisticated cyber threats and to coordinate and assist operational responses to major cyber events of national importance.” Reports on activities for ...
Computerworld
Cybercrime and International Agreements | Res Communis
By P.J. Blount
A recent paper entitled “A Global Protocol on Cybersecurity and Cybercrime”, advocates the adoption of global standards “at the United Nations level”. While a popular idea, not ... In “The Case Against an International Cyber Warfare Convention” paper for the Wake Forest Law Review, Lawerence L. Muir, Jr., an adjunct professor at Washington & Lee School of Law, outlines his argument that the United States should not seek an international agreement aboutcyber warfare of any kind.
Res Communis
By P.J. Blount
A recent paper entitled “A Global Protocol on Cybersecurity and Cybercrime”, advocates the adoption of global standards “at the United Nations level”. While a popular idea, not ... In “The Case Against an International Cyber Warfare Convention” paper for the Wake Forest Law Review, Lawerence L. Muir, Jr., an adjunct professor at Washington & Lee School of Law, outlines his argument that the United States should not seek an international agreement aboutcyber warfare of any kind.
Res Communis
Is Flame virus fallout a Chinese, Russian plot to control the Internet ...
The argument that the U.S. should not be in a position of power as far as overseeing the Internet will be bolstered by a world set aflame by news that the U.S. may have exploited its technological advantage to attack sovereign nations with Flame ... “It seems like a great opportunity to increase pressure on talks around cyber threats to international peace and security and gather a coalition of potential victims to say, 'We see the U.S. establishing itself on the Net in offensive way, we need ...
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Social Action Secretariat Hacked, Accounts ... - Cyber War News
By Lee J
TeamGhostShell Has just announced a new attack that has resulted in a data leak that has thousands of accounts attached to it. The attack has been carried out on The Social Action Secretariat (SAS) of the Presidency of ... Cyber War News ...
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The media focuses on Obama leaks blame-placing because ...
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Cenk breaks down the media swarm around the 'kill list' and Iran cyber attack intelligence leaks in Obama administration Tune in Weeknights at 7:00/6:00c on ...
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South Korea Moves to Improve Cybersecurity Posture
In the face of increasing threats posed by network intrusions, South Korea is moving to siginificantly bolster its national cybersecurity posture. Of particular ...
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Germany prepares special unit to tackle cyber attack - Economic Times
BERLIN: Germany has prepared a special cyber warfare unit of its military to conduct offencive operations against computer hackers, who attack key installations ...
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Layer 8: Dept. of Homeland Security to focus on cyber workforce ...
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today said the agency will form acybersecurity workforce task group that will consider strategies such as ...
www.networkworld.com/.../dept-homeland-security-focus-cyb...
South Korean paper hit by major cyber attack - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: A conservative South Korean newspaper said Monday it had been the victim of a major cyber attack, less than a week after North Korea ...
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South Korean paper hit by major cyber attack | Bangkok Post: news
This file photo shows a South Korean security analyst at an operations' centre in Seoul, in 2009. A conservative South Korean newspaper said on Monday it had ..
Cyber Attack On Iran Traced To US | Dprogram.net
(PressTV) – The head of Iran's cyber police says the perpetrators behind the recent cyber attack on the Iranian Oil Ministry have been traced to the US. 'Cyber ...
dprogram.net/2012/06/11/cyber-attack-on-iran-traced-to-us/
Experts: University of Nebraska cyber attack was unsophisticated ...
The hacking of information on more than 650000 University of Nebraska (UN) students, alumni, parents, and employees—which ranks among higher ...
www.ecampusnews.com/.../experts-university-of-nebraska-cyb...
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