Details from the growing U.S. case against a North Korean hacker are helping to shed light on the evolving tactics, skills, and strategies of North Korean cyber operations. Marked by extensive preparation and background research to develop profiles and relationships with real people in key positions...
By Bob Gourley I’m on the board of Centripetal Networks, a firm with dramatically virtuous technology that I believe will change the world. With this post I’ll tell you more about this firm, with a focus on the differentiators of their capability. The core capability of Centripetal Netwo...
via Reuters Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world. Security company McAfee, which uncovered the intrusions, said it believed...
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 Computerworld Google has disrupted what it believes to be a targeted phishing campaign aimed at stealing e-mail from government officials, contractors and military personnel. The criminals behind the campaign have broken into hundreds of Gmail accounts belonging to “U.S. government officia...
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 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...