Public CIO (blog)
Another option is to drop “security” altogether and just use the word cyber instead of cybersecurityin some cases. This trend may allow for even more ... The single word “cyberattack” yields 1.2 million page views, but the two words “cyber attack ...
Gauss Malware Detected Through Unique Palida Narrow Font
eWeek
The complex piece of malware known as Gauss has a number of mysteries that have grabbed the attention of security researchers: Where did the attack tool originate, what is the function of the encrypted payload, and why does the malware focus on ...
Russian and US students study cyber threats together
WRVO Public Media
Auffant's teaching a course called Introduction to Digital Forensics and his class of Russian and American students is the first group to go through the school's new graduate certificate program in Information Security, also known as cybersecurity. The ...
UAlbany taking aim at cyber security with 'innovative' certificate program
Troy Record
ALBANY – According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the growing number of attacks on our cyber networks has become, in President Obama's words, "one of the most serious economic and national security threats our nation faces." To address ...
MacAulay-Brown Awarded Multi-million Dollar Cybersecurity Contract to Harden ...
defpro
According to the USAF, the 90th IOS produces real-time cyber capability support for platform deployments, sustainment, defensive applications and complex malware signatures. It provides network router security innovation and operational platform tool ...
Hacking, virus infections doubling every year
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
Mannar attack: AG says no decision yet. No decision has been taken regarding any action ... Over the past five years, the incidence of hacking and virus infection has doubled year-on-year, according to a statement by Sri Lankan Information Security ...
Understanding the risks of different types of Mobile Banking transactions...
Malta Independent Online
As regular readers of our articles know, cyber criminals are starting to exploit security vulnerabilities present in all mainstream smartphone operating systems. Today, we are observing ... However, for these rare attacks to be successful: a) they ...
Computer virus infects Lebanon
Daily News Egypt
The attack was uniquely focused on Lebanon, which experts also say is rare, raising questions about who would want to target the country. ... The cyber security of the Lebanese banking system, has proved inadequate to combat the sophisticated virus.
Cyber Security News of the Week, August 12, 2012 | Citadel ...
By Stan Stahl Ph.D.
Inspired by Disney's innovative vision, the cybersecurity community will gather at the Magic Kingdom on October 25-26 to look at change as a chance to achieve excellence. Disruptions like “big data”, “cloud ... Cyber Security Management. How to protect your cloud data from hacks: Set up your entire digital life to sync automatically with a server run by some big (ostensibly responsible) tech company, and you never have to worry about losing data again, right? CNN, August 9, 2012 ...
Citadel Information Group
Activist Post: Gauss Virus Targets Banking System May Cause US ...
By Activist
All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage and cyberwar operations. According to Jeffrey Carr, cyber warfare expert for the security firm Taia Global, the US government has been monitoring ...
Activist Post
Which Defense Companies Will Help The US Win The Cyber War ...
What a 17-fold increase in cyber attacks against American infrastructure between 2009 and 2011 might mean for the defense industry. PRINT · Post Comments ...
www.minyanville.com/sectors/technology/.../42825?...
Hopes fade for new U.S. cybersecurity law in 2012 - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite growing concerns of the threat of cyberattacks, chances of a new U.S. cybersecurity law passing this ...
news.yahoo.com/senate-fails-move-cybersecurity-bill-forward...
Cybersecurity Training & Exercises | Homeland Security
Cybersecurity Training & Exercises. DHS/FEMA State Cybersecurity Training Program · Control Systems Security Program (US-CERT); Cyber Storm: Securing ...
www.dhs.gov/cybersecurity-training-exercises
Gauss Online Detection Tools Offered by Kaspersky, CrySys
eWeek
“This font was used during the Gauss cyber-attack,” a Kaspersky security expert said in an Aug. 10 post on the company's SecureList blog. “Although we don't currently understand exactly why the attackers have installed this font, it could serve as an ...
Virus plunges Lebanon into cyber war
The Daily Star
“It's a direct attack against the banking sector in Lebanon, one of the most stable sectors in Lebanon,” the expert says. “If it collapses, maybe the country will fall into chaos.” Security experts say the government's and many businesses' cyber ...
The Daily Star
Pentagon Cyber Command Proposes More Robust Cybersecurity Role
ExecutiveGov
Pentagon Cyber Command Proposes More Robust Cybersecurity Role. Written by David ... Last revised in 2005, Washington Post reports that the Department of Defense is modifying its standing rules of engagement for cyber warfare. A proposed revision to ...
Gauss: Stuxnet-like cyber-espionage toolkit targets Middle East banks
TechSpot
Kaspersky security analysts have identified another cyber-threat (PDF) targeting the Middle East as part of ongoing research into Flame. Named Gauss, it displays all the hallmarks of being part of the same family as Flame (Stuxnet, Duqu) and is ...
Verizon National Security Policy Expert to Participate in TechNet Land Forces ...
Sacramento Bee
... Forces-East 2012 on Tuesday (Aug. 14) in Baltimore. The panel – "Can the Internet Provide Cyber Security Going Forward?" – will explore securing the Internet and the roles of the public and private sectors in collaborating to combat cybersecurity ...
Cyberattack on Lebanese Banks —Are Iran, Syria Finances the Target?
Al-Monitor
The virus, dubbed "Gauss" by Kaspersky Lab, the security firm that discovered it, is a very advanced piece of software that has been monitoring Lebanese bank accounts since September of last year. Wired magazine called Gauss a "cousin" of the Stuxnet...
Al-Monitor
Stuxnet/Flame/Gauss and the limits of cyber espionage
GCN.com
Although cyberspace offers unique opportunities for long-range, asymmetrical warfare and espionage, launching a cyberweapon can effectively put the code into the public domain, giving researchers around the world the opportunity to inspect it. The ...
While origin unclear, Gauss indicates malware tool boom
CSO Magazine
The computer security firm Kaspersky Lab announced this week that it had found a new cybersurveillance virus in the Middle East that is a descendent of the Stuxnet, Flame and Duqu malware. But they are not calling it "Son of Stuxnet." Stuxnet is the ...
Dept. of Energy wants electric utilities to create “cybersecurity governance ...
PC Advisor
Senior management doesnt have a very good understanding of their security posture, says Andy Bochman, whose job as IBMs Energy Sector Leader in the IBM Security Systems Division grants him insight into how the whole U.S. power grid works. Unlike other ...
Stuxnet-Like Virus Targets Middle East Banks
Truthdig
Digital security experts have discovered a new cyber-surveillance virus in the Middle East that can steal login and password information and spy on banking transactions, system configurations and other data. The virus, called “Gauss” after 19th-century ...
Syrian Enemies Battle over the Web
Military.com
The cyber war is being fought on a global scale as internet warriors and hacker activists - called hactivists - are forming cyber armies, according to a report by the security company McAfee. The showdown focuses on the control of websites and on ...
NIST issues guidance on fraudulent certificates
CivSource
The bulletin also offers guidance on how to prepare for and respond to a CA compromise that results in fraudulently issued security certificates. Fraudulent certificates have recently come onto the radar of lawmakers after two successful cyber attacks ...
Verizon National Security Policy Expert to Participate in TechNet Land Forces ...
Equities.com
The panel – "Can the Internet Provide Cyber Security Going Forward?" – will explore securing the Internet and the roles of the public and private sectors in collaborating to combat cybersecurityattacks. WHEN: Tuesday, Aug. 14. 2:45 p.m. EDT. WHERE: ...
AntiLeaks: WikiLeaks website is down
GlobalPost
"We are now witnessing cyber wars, with most Wikileaks sites under sustained DDoS attack over several days. On one side are Wikileaks itself and its hacktivist supporters, such as Anonymous. On the other side are US Govt supporters. A hacker group ...
In Depth interviews - August 10
FederalNewsRadio.com
The recent power outages in India were not the result of a cyber attack. But it did raise a lot ofcybersecurity questions. ... David Berteau — Senior Vice President and Director InternationalSecurity Program, Center for Strategic and International ...
Obama should wait for Congress to act on Cybersecurity Act
The Morning Sun
He warned, “he cyber threat to our nation is one of the most serious economic and national securitychallenges we face ... So far, no one has managed to seriously damage or disrupt our critical infrastructure networks. But foreign governments, criminal ...
Zues-like Dorifel malware spotted in Europe
V3.co.uk
malware virus security threat. A malware infection believed to be linked to the Zeus crimeware family has been reported on systems in Europe. Kaspersky Lab said that the attack, known as "Dorifel," displays a pattern of odd behaviour such as encrypting...
V3.co.uk
Hacked Journalist: Don't Put Too Much Trust in Cloud
CNBC.com (blog)
Zynga to Build a Gamers' Social Network · Busted! FBI Makes Arrests in InternationalCyber Sting · Facebook Tell-All? Ex-Employee Reveals Inside Culture in New Book · Samsung Caught Off Guard by Galaxy's Popularity .... Honan described in detail how...
CNBC.com (blog)
WikiLeaks site down for days, victim of massive denial-of-service attack
NBCNews.com
Anti Leaks was anything but apologetic in an expanded tweet on Thursday: "WikiLeaks survives through donations that pay for their cyber terrorism and Assange's legal defense. We will continue to enforce a blockade on Wikileaks and it's (sic) supporters ...
Lebanon banks under attack by virus Gauss
Indian Express
A new computer virus tied to some of the most sophisticated cyberweapons thus-far discovered has been found circulating in the Middle East, a Moscow-based computer security company said Thursday. ... Lebanon experts said that an American cyber ...
Combating Fake Facebook Profiles, Bullying
North Country Gazette
They also seek to draw attention to themselves like a circus sideshow and attempt to divide the loyal, steadfast and earnest supporters, to redirect attention and focus to themselves, to attackindependent media in an attempt to silence them. The BCC ...
Fearful of Cyberspace, Iran Threatens to Disconnect From the Internet
Minyanville.com
According to the email our cyber experts sent to our teams, they believe a hacker tool Metasploit was used. The hackers had access to our VPN. The automation network and Siemens hardware were attacked and shut down. I only know very little about these ...
Encoding Geopolitics: Virus Infects Banks In Lebanon
NPR
... say is political. Cybersecurity analysts work in the watch and warning center during the first tour of the government's ... Some fear regulations would force a "checklist mentality" rather than focus on real cyber threats. Cybersecurity ... More ...
Afghan in uniform kills 3 US Special Forces troops in third such attack this week
Washington Post
Members of the U.S. Special Forces maintain particularly close ties with the officers whom they mentor, living in the rural villages where Afghan Local Police were recruited to boost security. ....Pentagon proposes more robust role for its cyber ...
14 Advanced Military Projects That Could Change The World Forever
Democratic Underground
The National Cyber Range is one of the cooler ideas that DARPA has come up with, even though it's conceptually somewhat simple. Right now, it's not possible ... DARPA wants a testing range forcybersecurity solutions and offensive capabilities. The ...
What to Expect at Oracle OpenWorld
PCWorld
Similar Articles: Apple, Oracle, Google Lead Major Vendors with Software Vulnerabilities in Q1,Security Report Says · Oracle Updates Free VirtualBox Hypervisor .... Security Alert - August 10, 2012 7:27 AM. Gauss Cyber Espionage Threat Targets Banking ...
GAUSS, FLAME, STUXNET: Cyber Warfare and Alien - STARpod US
By Gary.S.Bekkum
Over the past several days, the Internet has been buzzing with controversial allegations of interference by something from “out there,” and mainstream media reports of a cyber attack by a computer worm called STUXNET. [And more recently, FLAME and GAUSS, all presumably ... Keep in mind the US once considered the existence of a handful of soldiers scribbling notes about their mental impressions a state secret impacting national security. Sources to STARstream Research have ...
STARpod US
Gauss Virus Targets Banking System May Cause US Financial ...
By Susanne Posel
Researchers from the security software manufacturer Symantec Corp, confirm Kaspersky Lab's summation that Gauss is related to previous government-created cyber warfare viruses. Gauss is capable of being used as a weapon to attack industrial control systems, just like Stuxnet which was used to go after Iran's Natanz nuclear power plant facility in 2010. Gauss can encrypt programs that are compressed onto a USB drive and decompress them once the virus is able to contact to a ...
OCCUPY CORPORATISM
AFP issues hacking warning after ASIO attack - Cyber War News
By Lee J
Federal Police have issued a stern warning to computer hackers who have been trying to crash Australian government websites. Hacking movement Anonymous has been credited with infiltrating government and company websites across the ...
Cyber War News
Call to Arms: it's time to make multi-factor authentication - RSA
By Sam Curry
Speaking of Security – The RSA Blog and Podcast. No Flash ... The attack on Wired writer Mat Honan is just one instance of the trend to progressively more-and-more motion by the chaotic and misdirected actors in our civilization to the Internet. If you haven't read it, then read it now; ... Taking the Availability Heuristic into account, we run smack into an unpleasant truth: most people can't seecyber threats and therefore are far less likely to believe in it or perceive it. Cyber threats are ...
Speaking of Security - The RSA...
Cybersecurity Family & Business Resources | Homeland Security
Cybersecurity Family & Business Resources. Cybersecurity Tips · Cyber Security Tips (US-CERT); Careers in Cybersecurity · Cybersecurity: Our Shared ...
www.dhs.gov/cybersecurity-family-business-resources
eWeek
The complex piece of malware known as Gauss has a number of mysteries that have grabbed the attention of security researchers: Where did the attack tool originate, what is the function of the encrypted payload, and why does the malware focus on ...
Russian and US students study cyber threats together
WRVO Public Media
Auffant's teaching a course called Introduction to Digital Forensics and his class of Russian and American students is the first group to go through the school's new graduate certificate program in Information Security, also known as cybersecurity. The ...
UAlbany taking aim at cyber security with 'innovative' certificate program
Troy Record
ALBANY – According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the growing number of attacks on our cyber networks has become, in President Obama's words, "one of the most serious economic and national security threats our nation faces." To address ...
MacAulay-Brown Awarded Multi-million Dollar Cybersecurity Contract to Harden ...
defpro
According to the USAF, the 90th IOS produces real-time cyber capability support for platform deployments, sustainment, defensive applications and complex malware signatures. It provides network router security innovation and operational platform tool ...
Hacking, virus infections doubling every year
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
Mannar attack: AG says no decision yet. No decision has been taken regarding any action ... Over the past five years, the incidence of hacking and virus infection has doubled year-on-year, according to a statement by Sri Lankan Information Security ...
Understanding the risks of different types of Mobile Banking transactions...
Malta Independent Online
As regular readers of our articles know, cyber criminals are starting to exploit security vulnerabilities present in all mainstream smartphone operating systems. Today, we are observing ... However, for these rare attacks to be successful: a) they ...
Computer virus infects Lebanon
Daily News Egypt
The attack was uniquely focused on Lebanon, which experts also say is rare, raising questions about who would want to target the country. ... The cyber security of the Lebanese banking system, has proved inadequate to combat the sophisticated virus.
Cyber Security News of the Week, August 12, 2012 | Citadel ...
By Stan Stahl Ph.D.
Inspired by Disney's innovative vision, the cybersecurity community will gather at the Magic Kingdom on October 25-26 to look at change as a chance to achieve excellence. Disruptions like “big data”, “cloud ... Cyber Security Management. How to protect your cloud data from hacks: Set up your entire digital life to sync automatically with a server run by some big (ostensibly responsible) tech company, and you never have to worry about losing data again, right? CNN, August 9, 2012 ...
Citadel Information Group
Activist Post: Gauss Virus Targets Banking System May Cause US ...
By Activist
All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage and cyberwar operations. According to Jeffrey Carr, cyber warfare expert for the security firm Taia Global, the US government has been monitoring ...
Activist Post
Which Defense Companies Will Help The US Win The Cyber War ...
What a 17-fold increase in cyber attacks against American infrastructure between 2009 and 2011 might mean for the defense industry. PRINT · Post Comments ...
www.minyanville.com/sectors/technology/.../42825?...
Hopes fade for new U.S. cybersecurity law in 2012 - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite growing concerns of the threat of cyberattacks, chances of a new U.S. cybersecurity law passing this ...
news.yahoo.com/senate-fails-move-cybersecurity-bill-forward...
Cybersecurity Training & Exercises | Homeland Security
Cybersecurity Training & Exercises. DHS/FEMA State Cybersecurity Training Program · Control Systems Security Program (US-CERT); Cyber Storm: Securing ...
www.dhs.gov/cybersecurity-training-exercises
Gauss Online Detection Tools Offered by Kaspersky, CrySys
eWeek
“This font was used during the Gauss cyber-attack,” a Kaspersky security expert said in an Aug. 10 post on the company's SecureList blog. “Although we don't currently understand exactly why the attackers have installed this font, it could serve as an ...
Virus plunges Lebanon into cyber war
The Daily Star
“It's a direct attack against the banking sector in Lebanon, one of the most stable sectors in Lebanon,” the expert says. “If it collapses, maybe the country will fall into chaos.” Security experts say the government's and many businesses' cyber ...
The Daily Star
Pentagon Cyber Command Proposes More Robust Cybersecurity Role
ExecutiveGov
Pentagon Cyber Command Proposes More Robust Cybersecurity Role. Written by David ... Last revised in 2005, Washington Post reports that the Department of Defense is modifying its standing rules of engagement for cyber warfare. A proposed revision to ...
Gauss: Stuxnet-like cyber-espionage toolkit targets Middle East banks
TechSpot
Kaspersky security analysts have identified another cyber-threat (PDF) targeting the Middle East as part of ongoing research into Flame. Named Gauss, it displays all the hallmarks of being part of the same family as Flame (Stuxnet, Duqu) and is ...
Verizon National Security Policy Expert to Participate in TechNet Land Forces ...
Sacramento Bee
... Forces-East 2012 on Tuesday (Aug. 14) in Baltimore. The panel – "Can the Internet Provide Cyber Security Going Forward?" – will explore securing the Internet and the roles of the public and private sectors in collaborating to combat cybersecurity ...
Cyberattack on Lebanese Banks —Are Iran, Syria Finances the Target?
Al-Monitor
The virus, dubbed "Gauss" by Kaspersky Lab, the security firm that discovered it, is a very advanced piece of software that has been monitoring Lebanese bank accounts since September of last year. Wired magazine called Gauss a "cousin" of the Stuxnet...
Al-Monitor
Stuxnet/Flame/Gauss and the limits of cyber espionage
GCN.com
Although cyberspace offers unique opportunities for long-range, asymmetrical warfare and espionage, launching a cyberweapon can effectively put the code into the public domain, giving researchers around the world the opportunity to inspect it. The ...
While origin unclear, Gauss indicates malware tool boom
CSO Magazine
The computer security firm Kaspersky Lab announced this week that it had found a new cybersurveillance virus in the Middle East that is a descendent of the Stuxnet, Flame and Duqu malware. But they are not calling it "Son of Stuxnet." Stuxnet is the ...
Dept. of Energy wants electric utilities to create “cybersecurity governance ...
PC Advisor
Senior management doesnt have a very good understanding of their security posture, says Andy Bochman, whose job as IBMs Energy Sector Leader in the IBM Security Systems Division grants him insight into how the whole U.S. power grid works. Unlike other ...
Stuxnet-Like Virus Targets Middle East Banks
Truthdig
Digital security experts have discovered a new cyber-surveillance virus in the Middle East that can steal login and password information and spy on banking transactions, system configurations and other data. The virus, called “Gauss” after 19th-century ...
Syrian Enemies Battle over the Web
Military.com
The cyber war is being fought on a global scale as internet warriors and hacker activists - called hactivists - are forming cyber armies, according to a report by the security company McAfee. The showdown focuses on the control of websites and on ...
NIST issues guidance on fraudulent certificates
CivSource
The bulletin also offers guidance on how to prepare for and respond to a CA compromise that results in fraudulently issued security certificates. Fraudulent certificates have recently come onto the radar of lawmakers after two successful cyber attacks ...
Verizon National Security Policy Expert to Participate in TechNet Land Forces ...
Equities.com
The panel – "Can the Internet Provide Cyber Security Going Forward?" – will explore securing the Internet and the roles of the public and private sectors in collaborating to combat cybersecurityattacks. WHEN: Tuesday, Aug. 14. 2:45 p.m. EDT. WHERE: ...
AntiLeaks: WikiLeaks website is down
GlobalPost
"We are now witnessing cyber wars, with most Wikileaks sites under sustained DDoS attack over several days. On one side are Wikileaks itself and its hacktivist supporters, such as Anonymous. On the other side are US Govt supporters. A hacker group ...
In Depth interviews - August 10
FederalNewsRadio.com
The recent power outages in India were not the result of a cyber attack. But it did raise a lot ofcybersecurity questions. ... David Berteau — Senior Vice President and Director InternationalSecurity Program, Center for Strategic and International ...
Obama should wait for Congress to act on Cybersecurity Act
The Morning Sun
He warned, “he cyber threat to our nation is one of the most serious economic and national securitychallenges we face ... So far, no one has managed to seriously damage or disrupt our critical infrastructure networks. But foreign governments, criminal ...
Zues-like Dorifel malware spotted in Europe
V3.co.uk
malware virus security threat. A malware infection believed to be linked to the Zeus crimeware family has been reported on systems in Europe. Kaspersky Lab said that the attack, known as "Dorifel," displays a pattern of odd behaviour such as encrypting...
V3.co.uk
Hacked Journalist: Don't Put Too Much Trust in Cloud
CNBC.com (blog)
Zynga to Build a Gamers' Social Network · Busted! FBI Makes Arrests in InternationalCyber Sting · Facebook Tell-All? Ex-Employee Reveals Inside Culture in New Book · Samsung Caught Off Guard by Galaxy's Popularity .... Honan described in detail how...
CNBC.com (blog)
WikiLeaks site down for days, victim of massive denial-of-service attack
NBCNews.com
Anti Leaks was anything but apologetic in an expanded tweet on Thursday: "WikiLeaks survives through donations that pay for their cyber terrorism and Assange's legal defense. We will continue to enforce a blockade on Wikileaks and it's (sic) supporters ...
Lebanon banks under attack by virus Gauss
Indian Express
A new computer virus tied to some of the most sophisticated cyberweapons thus-far discovered has been found circulating in the Middle East, a Moscow-based computer security company said Thursday. ... Lebanon experts said that an American cyber ...
Combating Fake Facebook Profiles, Bullying
North Country Gazette
They also seek to draw attention to themselves like a circus sideshow and attempt to divide the loyal, steadfast and earnest supporters, to redirect attention and focus to themselves, to attackindependent media in an attempt to silence them. The BCC ...
Fearful of Cyberspace, Iran Threatens to Disconnect From the Internet
Minyanville.com
According to the email our cyber experts sent to our teams, they believe a hacker tool Metasploit was used. The hackers had access to our VPN. The automation network and Siemens hardware were attacked and shut down. I only know very little about these ...
Encoding Geopolitics: Virus Infects Banks In Lebanon
NPR
... say is political. Cybersecurity analysts work in the watch and warning center during the first tour of the government's ... Some fear regulations would force a "checklist mentality" rather than focus on real cyber threats. Cybersecurity ... More ...
Afghan in uniform kills 3 US Special Forces troops in third such attack this week
Washington Post
Members of the U.S. Special Forces maintain particularly close ties with the officers whom they mentor, living in the rural villages where Afghan Local Police were recruited to boost security. ....Pentagon proposes more robust role for its cyber ...
14 Advanced Military Projects That Could Change The World Forever
Democratic Underground
The National Cyber Range is one of the cooler ideas that DARPA has come up with, even though it's conceptually somewhat simple. Right now, it's not possible ... DARPA wants a testing range forcybersecurity solutions and offensive capabilities. The ...
What to Expect at Oracle OpenWorld
PCWorld
Similar Articles: Apple, Oracle, Google Lead Major Vendors with Software Vulnerabilities in Q1,Security Report Says · Oracle Updates Free VirtualBox Hypervisor .... Security Alert - August 10, 2012 7:27 AM. Gauss Cyber Espionage Threat Targets Banking ...
GAUSS, FLAME, STUXNET: Cyber Warfare and Alien - STARpod US
By Gary.S.Bekkum
Over the past several days, the Internet has been buzzing with controversial allegations of interference by something from “out there,” and mainstream media reports of a cyber attack by a computer worm called STUXNET. [And more recently, FLAME and GAUSS, all presumably ... Keep in mind the US once considered the existence of a handful of soldiers scribbling notes about their mental impressions a state secret impacting national security. Sources to STARstream Research have ...
STARpod US
Gauss Virus Targets Banking System May Cause US Financial ...
By Susanne Posel
Researchers from the security software manufacturer Symantec Corp, confirm Kaspersky Lab's summation that Gauss is related to previous government-created cyber warfare viruses. Gauss is capable of being used as a weapon to attack industrial control systems, just like Stuxnet which was used to go after Iran's Natanz nuclear power plant facility in 2010. Gauss can encrypt programs that are compressed onto a USB drive and decompress them once the virus is able to contact to a ...
OCCUPY CORPORATISM
AFP issues hacking warning after ASIO attack - Cyber War News
By Lee J
Federal Police have issued a stern warning to computer hackers who have been trying to crash Australian government websites. Hacking movement Anonymous has been credited with infiltrating government and company websites across the ...
Cyber War News
Call to Arms: it's time to make multi-factor authentication - RSA
By Sam Curry
Speaking of Security – The RSA Blog and Podcast. No Flash ... The attack on Wired writer Mat Honan is just one instance of the trend to progressively more-and-more motion by the chaotic and misdirected actors in our civilization to the Internet. If you haven't read it, then read it now; ... Taking the Availability Heuristic into account, we run smack into an unpleasant truth: most people can't seecyber threats and therefore are far less likely to believe in it or perceive it. Cyber threats are ...
Speaking of Security - The RSA...
Cybersecurity Family & Business Resources | Homeland Security
Cybersecurity Family & Business Resources. Cybersecurity Tips · Cyber Security Tips (US-CERT); Careers in Cybersecurity · Cybersecurity: Our Shared ...
www.dhs.gov/cybersecurity-family-business-resources
