“Iran and North Korea have been in bed together for a long time, but recently they threw off the covers for the whole world to see. At least one security expert thinks there is a malware angle here that is worth underlining. At the start of this month, news broke that Iran and North Korea [&he...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The State Department‘s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs plans to provide the Mexican Public Security Secretariat with the Mexico Technical Surveillance System to intercept and analyze co...
via ABC News In past wars, a hostile army would send troops to sabotage a bridge. Now a terrorist can send a suicide bomber to attack a mass transit system. In the future, experts are worried that malicious hackers — perhaps even working for China, Iran or North Korea — could bring down ...
via ZDNet The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government Web sites of both South Korea and United States in 2009 and more recently in March this year could have been a “reconnaissance operation” by a cyber army launched on behalf of North Korea. This assessment was put fo...
via SecurityPark.net During the Cold War, we witnessed how military advances drove private sector – especially in aviation. Today’s robust criminal hacking industry has helped driving hacktivism. Although hacktivism is nothing new, it has undergone a rapid evolution that is driven and in...
via Korea Herald The North Korean military has around 30,000 electronic warfare specialists with capabilities rivaling those of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Fox News reported Tuesday, citing defectors and other sources. The U.S. broadcaster’s report titled “North Korea’s cyber...
via WSJ Last week, the European Union revealed that its headquarters had come under a major cyber attack, likely state-sponsored, on the eve of the EU summit. Earlier this month, the French announced that they had been hit with a cyber assault at the end of 2010, probably launched by Chinese hackers...
via Asia Times Military history is full of breakthroughs in technology that render existing forces obsolete and turn the global balance of power. While the overwhelming dominance of the United States armed forces in this day and age makes it difficult to imagine how anything could possibly alter the...