• Twitter tightens security after recent hacking spate

    “Micro-blogging site Twitter says it is bringing in an optional two-step login for users to beef up security following recent high-profile breaches.” Source: BBC News – Twitter tightens security after recent hacking spate Via OODA Loop

    NSA Deputy Warns Against Cyber Vigilantes

    “The private sector — and the government — must ‘exhaust’ the use of traditional responses such as public shaming, criminal charges, diplomatic demarches, and sanctions ‘before we contemplate the dangerous possibility we might encourage vigilantism,’ the powerful deputy director of the National Security Agency says.” Source: NSA Deputy Warns Against Cyber Vigilantes; CISPA Execution Must Be [...]

    Chinese hackers who breached Google gained access to sensitive data, U.S. officials say

    “Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials. The breach appears to have been aimed at unearthing the identities of Chinese intelligence operatives in the United States who may have been under [...]

    Large cyber espionage emanating from India

    “orman Shark uncovered a large and sophisticated cyber-attack infrastructure that appears to have originated from India. The attacks, conducted by private threat actors over a period of three years and still ongoing, showed no evidence of state-sponsorship but the primary purpose of the global command-and-control network appears to be intelligence gathering from a combination of [...]

    Millions hit by Yahoo Japan hack attack

    “Up to 22 million login names may have been stolen during a hack attack on Yahoo Japan. A file of ID details for about one tenth of its 200 million members was stolen during the attack, it said.” Source:BBC News – Millions hit by Yahoo Japan hack attack Via OODA Loop

    Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets

    “Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China’s People’s Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed their attacks  using different techniques, according to computer industry security experts and American officials.” Source: Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on [...]

    U.S. to protect private sector from secret software attacks

    “The U.S. government will use classified information about software vulnerabilities for the first time to protect companies outside of the military industrial complex, top officials told Reuters this week. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said that a system being developed to scan Internet traffic headed toward critical businesses would block attacks on software programs [...]

    Is Microsoft reading your Skype instant messages?

    “A group of security researchers in Germany found some suspicious traffic on their web servers after a Skype instant messaging session. After a single experiment, they concluded that Microsoft is snooping on its customers. But a closer look at the facts suggests that this is a well-documented security feature at work.” Source:Is Microsoft reading your [...]

    Saudi Telecom Sought U.S. Researcher’s Help in Spying on Mobile Users

    “A prominent computer security researcher says he recently rejected a request by a Saudi telecommunications company to help it spy on mobile customers using social networking accounts such as Twitter. The security researcher, who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike and who recently left Twitter where he worked on that company’s security team, said he [...]

    Chinese university lab linked to PLA cyber attacks

    “A computer science laboratory at China’s Wuhan University has been linked by U.S. intelligence agencies to Chinese military cyber attacks on the West. According to U.S. officials, the Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing at Wuhan’s Computer Science School in central China’s Hubei Province is the latest cyber warfare research and attack [...]

    Lessons From the Hacking Attack That Wasn’t

    “Hacking attacks that fizzle can be just as dangerous as those that don’t. This week, the loosely coordinated Anonymous hacking crew promised an all-out assault against U.S. government and banking websites in retaliation for drone attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tuesday was supposed to be a day of ‘justice for the downtrodden,’ [...]

    Goldman outs Bloomberg snoops

    “Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have been using the company’s ubiquitous terminals to keep tabs on some employees of the Wall Street bank, The Post has learned. The ability to snoop on Bloomberg terminal users came to light recently when Goldman officials learned that [...]