By AdamElkus My amigo Alex Olesker has a nice roundup at OODA Loop of why China and Japan are feuding over a pile of rocks in the South China Sea. So why, you might ask, is this relevant for technologists? Well, consider this story from August: Chinese tech hub and boom town Shenzhen is set [&hellip...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries confirmed that 83 computers and servers at 11 locations, including its headquarters and shipyards in Nagasaki and Kobe, were infected, according to the Guardian newspaper. The company declined to say whether any confidential data was stolen. The Japanese defense ministry ...
via Infowar Monitor IDG News Service — Israel is setting up a national task force to expand the state’s ability to defend vital infrastructure networks from cyberterrorist attacks by foreign countries and terrorist elements, according to a report on Wednesday by the country’s prime...
via Computerworld An Iranian military commander Saturday accused the German electronics giant Siemens with helping U.S. and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his country’s nuclear facilities. According to the Islamic Republic News Service (IRNA), Iran’s state news agency...
via Federal News Radio Iranian hackers working for the powerful Revolutionary Guard’s paramilitary Basij group have launched attacks on websites of the “enemies,” a state-owned newspaper reported Monday in a rare acknowledgment from Iran that it’s involved in cyber warfare. T...
via info security British defense firm BAE Systems has agreed to acquire ETI A/S, a Danish cybersecurity firm, for approximately $212 million. ETI, with annual sales of approximately $61 million, employs 260 people in Denmark, the UK, the US, Asia, and the Middle East. BAE Systems said the acquisiti...