By Jose Nazario It’s been yet another busy month for all of us, and especially in this space (cyber conflict and cyber warfare). DARPA’s PlanX BAA was released along with a new BAA dubbed ‘VET’ to investigate hardware security based on the Congressional report on Huawei an...
“Just what might happen if the Iranians got their hands on a nuclear weapon? Would they fire it at an Israeli city, causing tens or hundreds of thousands of casualties? Or would they use it as a geopolitical weapon, seeking to dominate the Middle East and forcing the hand of Western powers, ei...
“Last week the Russian security research group Kaspersky Labs announced they had found a new computer virus infecting thousands of computers in the Middle East. Called ‘Gauss,’ after a filename found in its codebase, the malware can capture information about the infected computer, including In...
“Last week the Russian security research group Kaspersky Labs announced they had found a new computer virus infecting thousands of computers in the Middle East. Called ‘Gauss,’ after a filename found in its codebase, the malware can capture information about the infected computer, ...
“A Russian-based internet security firm says a powerful computer virus with unprecedented data-snatching capabilities has attacked machines in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.” (Source: The Associated Press: Russian firm: Iran victim of another cyberattack.) Original Source...
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned that cyber capabilities could “virtually paralyze our country” during an interview with 60 minutes conducted in December but just released on Thursday....
As the chief security officer for Microsoft, Mike Howard has more than a passing interest in the things he sees on the nightly news. Whether it’s an uprising in the Middle East, the ongoing threat of terrorism or a natural disaster somewhere in the world, the former CIA officer is prepared for...
via The Washington Post In 2008, the U.S. military suffered the most significant breach of its classified computer networks when an infected flash drive was inserted into a laptop at a base in the Middle East, and the response was, in a word, confusion. Various military and civilian organizations &#...