Showing posts with label Cyber Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyber Security. Show all posts

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Was This A Cyber Attack?!?

Was This A Cyber Attack?!?

July 09, 2015 Cyber Attacks , Cyber Security 0 Comments

Anonymous Issued Cryptic Tweet On Eve Of NYSE Suspension

By Jesse Byrnes July 8, 2015, The Hill

International hacking group Anonymous wished Wall Street ill the night before the New York Stock Exchange temporarily suspended trading on all securities.

New York trading was suspended around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday due to a "technical issue," the exchange said in a statement posted to Twitter.

The Department of Homeland Security said there was no indication the NYSE had been hacked, according to Bloomberg and CNN. The exchange said the glitch could not be attribute to "a cyber breach."

"The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the result of a cyber breach," it said in another statement. "We chose to suspend trading on NYSE to avoid problems arising from our technical issue. NYSE-listed securities continue to trade unaffected on other market centers."

The White House said President Obama had been briefed on the issue. Earlier in the day, United Airlines briefly grounded all of its flights due to a systemwide failure.

Anonymous has previously targeted Wall Street and made headlines in 2011 when it threatened to "destroy" the New York Stock Exchange.

Read More: http://thehill.com




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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Nobody Took Action?

June 23, 2015 Cyber Security , Hackers 0 Comments
Hackers Tell Congress That This Internet Is NOT Safe (1998)--VIDEO



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Nobody listened?

June 23, 2015 Capitol Hill , Cyber Security 0 Comments
In 1998 These Hackers Warned Government About Internet Insecurity

By Jorge Ribas, Jun. 22, 2015, Washington Post

The seven young men sitting before some of Capitol Hill’s most powerful lawmakers weren’t graduate students or junior analysts from some think tank. No, Space Rogue, Kingpin, Mudge and the others were hackers who had come from the mysterious environs of cyberspace to deliver a terrifying warning to the world.

Your computers, they told the panel of senators in May 1998, are not safe — not the software, not the hardware, not the networks that link them together. The companies that build these things don’t care, the hackers continued, and they have no reason to care because failure costs them nothing. And the federal government has neither the skill nor the will to do anything about it.

“If you’re looking for computer security, then the Internet is not the place to be,” said Mudge, then 27 and looking like a biblical prophet with long brown hair flowing past his shoulders. The Internet itself, he added, could be taken down “by any of the seven individuals seated before you” with 30 minutes of well-choreographed keystrokes.


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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Bad timing

January 13, 2015 CentCom , Cyber Security 0 Comments
Islamic State Hacks CENTCOM Twitter Feed As Obama Talks Cybersecurity

Lachlan Markay, Jan. 12, 2015, Washington Free Beacon

The apparent hack came as President Obama addressed the nation regarding cyber security. He is expected to propose two pieces of cyber security legislation and to address the effort in his upcoming State of the Union address.

The hackers subsequently tweeted images of spreadsheets containing the home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of dozens of current and former senior U.S. military officers.

Read more: www.freebeacon.com

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Saturday, January 3, 2015

The real world consequences

January 03, 2015 Adam Levin , Cyber Security 0 Comments
How The Sony Hack Is Changing The Way I Work

Adam Levin, Jan. 1, 2015, Forbes

The trend here is simply too clear: Nothing is sacrosanct and nothing is beyond reach. And while there may be no way to keep prying eyes out of our email, there is a way to keep the most sensitive information pertaining to your business out of reach. With that thought foremost in my mind, it is, indeed, time to make some serious changes in 2015.

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That's an understatement--other projects were cancelled

January 03, 2015 Cyber Attacks , Cyber Crime 0 Comments
Cyberattack Stifled Our Freedom Of Speech

Suhail Nanji, Jan. 1, 2015, Miami Herald

These attacks are no longer just something we hear about in the news and that happens in cyberspace. They are and will continue to directly affect our lives. Governments, organizations and citizens need to take cybersecurity seriously. Many individuals and business owners suffer from “cyberfatigue,” which numbs them to nonstop stories of cyberattacks.

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Friday, January 2, 2015

Adam Levin: It's Time For A Data Breach Warning Label

January 02, 2015 Adam Levin , Cyber Crime 0 Comments
By Adam Levin, Sept. 17, 2014

The breach at Home Depot is only the most recent in a torrent of high-profile data compromises. Data andidentity-related crimes are at record levels. Consumers are in uncharted territory, which raises a question: Is it time to do for data breaches and cybersecurity what the nutritional label did for food? I believe we need a Breach Disclosure Box, and that it can be a powerful consumer information and education tool.

Once a cost of doing business, today data breaches in the best-case scenario can sap a company’s bottom line, and at their worst represent an extinction-level event. The real-world effects for consumers can be catastrophic. Because there is a patchwork of state and federal laws related to data security—some good, some bad, all indecipherable—and none that work together, it’s impossible to know just how safe your personally identifiable information is, and has been, at the places where you shop and the companies and professional organizations with which you do business.

Data security, identity-related consumer issues and privacy are all areas screaming for big-picture solutions. This is a situation in search of a paradigm shift—one that produces tools which enable consumers to make informed choices.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Unrelated to #SONYHACK?

December 30, 2014 Amazon.com , Credit Card 0 Comments
Hackers Release Cache Of 13,000 Passwords And Credit Cards Of PlayStation, Xbox And Amazon Users

Darren Boyle, Dec. 27, 2014, Daily Mail

The hackers are believed to have used a denial of service attack, where they bombard the targets servers with internet traffic forcing it to shut down and preventing legitimate access.

This comes as Christmas was ruined for thousands of children across the country who were forced to abandon plans to spend the holidays in a virtual world playing on their new Playstation or Xbox games systems due to cyber-hackers.

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

How about we do both?

October 21, 2014 Aruna Viswanatha , Cyber Security 0 Comments
U.S. National Security Prosecutors Shift Focus From Spies To Cyber

By Aruna Viswanatha, Oct. 21, 2014, Reuters.com

(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is restructuring its national security prosecution team to deal with cyber attacks and the threat of sensitive technology ending up in the wrong hands, as American business and government agencies face more intrusions.

The revamp, led by Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, also marks a recognition that national security threats have broadened and become more technologically savvy since the 9/11 attacks against the United States.

As part of the shift, the Justice Department has created a new position in the senior ranks of its national security division to focus on cyber security and recruited an experienced prosecutor, Luke Dembosky, to fill the position.

The agency is also renaming its counter-espionage section to reflect its expanding work on cases involving violations of export control laws, Carlin confirmed in an interview.

Such laws prohibit the export without appropriate licenses of products or machinery that could be used in weapons or other defense programs, or goods or services to countries sanctioned by the U.S. government.

"We need to develop the capability and bandwidth to deal with what we can see as an evolving threat," said Carlin, who was confirmed to his post in April.

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