By Marcus Williams Some hot topics we are tracking: Data Mining Taken to a New Level During a recent expo Raytheon, the 5th largest defense contractor, displayed how their Rapid Information Overlay Technology could collect data a on user. RIOT was designed to search through well known social media...
Friends and associates at Kyrus (Kyrus-Tech.com) recently announced they will be hosting Practical ARM Exploitation Course. This is the extremely popular course maintained by Stephen C. Lawler and Stephen A. Ridley. Exploitation is harder and a bit more nuanced today than it was in the past wi...
Security researchers at Symantec today confirmed that exploits of an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability targeted defense contractors, among other businesses. “We’ve seen [this targeting] people at telecommunications, manufacturing, computer hardware and chemical companies, as well as t...
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 eWeek Attackers most likely used spear-phishing techniques to compromise Japanese defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries last month, security researchers said. Spear phishing techniques are increasingly being used to steal sensitive information. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries admitted Sept....
via FT.com Defence contractors are renewing efforts to expand their non-military businesses as they search for strategies to cope with declining defence budgets worldwide. Last month, General Dynamics, the fourth-biggest US defence contractor by government revenues, agreed to buy Vangent — ...
via CNN Money FORTUNE — Congress has reconvened, which means lobbyists for the powerful defense industry will go into overdrive to stave off what some in the industry believe could be the greatest single threat to the military-industrial complex since the end of the cold war: The bipartisan bu...
via eWeek.com As promised, Anonymous has sought to embarrass the FBI with a network attack, this time going after defense contractor ManTech International. “Hacktivist” collective Anonymous claims to have “owned” the defense contractor ManTech International and promised to re...