By Jose Nazario February was an incredible month of developments. Obviously the two big stories are the Mandiant report on the group tagged APT 1, and the White House’s reactions to the cyber espionage issue by using international trade efforts. Even the NYT, WaPo and WSJ hacks all pale in com...
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Navy gears up for CANES deployment – CANES is the set of technology that will provide Navy ships with the services they need to be a part of networks. The minimum number of ships the CANES program will reach is 192 over 5 [&he...
By ChrisScott I was lucky enough to be able to attend the AFCEA ASIA PACIFIC conference in Honolulu this month. The theme was “Rebalancing toward the Asia Pacific” and I wasn’t surprised to see a large turn out again this year, especially from Industry. Over 150 exhibitors put on one of the ...
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...
“From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program....
“A hacker group calling itself the Russian branch of Anonymous has claimed responsibility for shutting down the websites of the Kremlin and the Russian President.” Source: Anonymous shuts down Kremlin’s websites — RT Original Source...
Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency testified yesterday for the Senate Armed Services Committee. Alexander blamed China for many of cybersecurity threats but maintained that the DHS and not the DoD should be the lead in protecting govern...
When US President Barack Obama called on the Congress for laws that would protect the country’s citizens, businesses and infrastructure from various cyber threats, it sounded like a welcome (if overdue) call to arms. Unfortunately, what most people didn’t immediately realize is that cybe...