“The Department of Homeland Security on Friday warned that a popular system used by organizations around the world to manage millions of machines and devices over the Internet is vulnerable to attack from hackers.” Source:Homeland Security warns of hackers targeting popular Niagara softw...
Posts Tagged: Cyberthreats
“A Home Office official has warned once again that with the Olympic Games only weeks away the country faces an unprecedented threat from cyber-attacks during the event. Using the 3 July National Security 2012 conference as a platform, Counter-Terrorism department director Richard Clarke likene...
“The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released findings from a cyber security study which focused on the economic espionage aspects of the cyber threat. Their report, available at: GAO-12-876T : Cyber Threats Facilitate Ability To Commit Economic Espionage provides an update and sum...
“‘Spoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane,’ Humphreys told Fox News. In other words, with the right equipment, anyone can take control of a GPS-guided drone and make it do anything they want it to.” (Source: EXCLUSIVE: Drones vulnerable to terrorist ...
“Cyber attacks pose a greater risk to Canada’s economy than the government previously believed, and the country lacks the tools to fight hackers, officials warn in internal documents obtained by Bloomberg News.” (Source: Risk to Canadian economy seen from hacker attacks.) Original ...
“The UK needs to defend itself against an electromagnetic pulse-based ‘E-bomb’ that could knock out all electronic systems, the defence secretary will say today. Philip Hammond will tell a security conference in London that traditional defences based on “infantry or jet planes” would n...
“A former top CIA covert officer who ran one of the spy agency’s secret domestic networks says there are now more foreign spies on U.S. soil than at the peak of the Cold War” (Source: More spies in U.S. than ever, says ex-CIA officer – CBS News.) Original Source...
“Recently, there have been instances of travelers’ laptops being infected with malicious software while using hotel Internet connections. In these instances, the traveler was attempting to setup the hotel room Internet connection and was presented with a pop-up window notifying the user ...