The week started out kind of interesting with more information about the Department of Energy labs that had to be shut down. Though the hysteria surrounding the attack continues to refer to the “sophisticated” nature of the “cyber attack” it is likely going to be much less than “sophisticated” in nature.
There are several articles that are panning the threat and hyped hysteria of cyber conflict through out the week. This is welcome if only a breath of wind before the hurricane of hysteria. With the release of the Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace on Thursday the admission of the release of 24K files in an intrusion and so much more. Well the week was very interesting. I was in attendance at the event where Deputy Secretary Defense Lynn and General Cartwright discussed the plan in depth and I did get to ask one question. The question and answer were on CSPAN and can be found in a variety of places. I was underwhelmed to not even link to it here.
Monday July 11th
| Cyber Attack Forces Internet Shut Down For DOE Lab CRN By Stefanie Hoffman, CRN The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is attempting to restore online connectivity following what it described as a “sophisticated cyber attack” on its systems last week. … See all stories on this topic » |
| Cyber War Started Between China and New America Media (blog) By Cicy Wang, Jul 8, 2011 11:49 AM Chinese and the Vietnamese hackers have started a cyberwar over the territorial dispute on the ownership of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. According to Global Times, a website under the operation of the … See all stories on this topic » |
| Is Cyberwar Real or Just Hype? TIME At his confirmation hearing last month, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that the “next Pearl Harbor we confront could very well be a cyber-attack.” Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin has said that “cyberweapons and cyberattacks … See all stories on this topic » |
| The shape of cyberwar to come FierceCIO Conventional notions of cyberwar have in the past evoked fantastic (and often implausible) notions of power plants simultaneously shutting down, nuclear reactors abruptly going critical, bogus orders being issued to military units or even traffic … See all stories on this topic » |
| Khatam al-Anbiya military base capable of countering cyber attack Tehran Times TEHRAN – Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya military base is able to detect and counter any cyber attackagainst the country, the base commander Farzad Ismaili said on Friday. Speaking to IRNA news agency, Ismaili said preserving and protecting important data and … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Syria’s cyber war against dissidents Ninemsn Syrian security forces use tanks, bullets and tear gas against anti-regime protesters by day, but by night they are more stealthy, targeting dissent using the opposition’s own weapon, the Internet. Demonstrators use social networking sites, … See all stories on this topic » |
| Company loses about $40000 in cyber attack Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By Breann Schossow of the Journal Sentinel It was about 7 am on a Saturday when Hartland-based Batteries Plus realized its website traffic had increased substantially. Not that Web traffic is strange for a company that sells more than 50 million … See all stories on this topic » |
| What is inside your computer – a tainted component for cyber attack ease? HULIQ He did not elaborate on the specific components, or how they were manufactured in a way to facilitate a cyber attack. Schaffer’s comment confirms that the US Government believes some electronics today contain components that will make it easier to … See all stories on this topic » |
| Apple’s PDF Flaw, DOE Attack, Rustock Lead Week’s Security News eWeek A recap of the past week’s IT security news includes more details about the Rustock botnet, the latest cyber-attack on a DOE research lab and another flaw in Apple’s iOS. All anyone could talk this past week was Google+, the new social networking … See all stories on this topic » |
| The Cyber Awareness Coalition Wired (blog) By Bruce Sterling *Y’know, I’m all for a cautious awareness of the dreadful swelling tide of cybercrime and cyberwar… but why is federal computer security always about “awareness”? It’s the sister of “environmental consciousness,” meaning you’re … See all stories on this topic » |
Tuesday July 12th
| Imported Components: Weapons in the Next Cyberwar? IBTimes Hong Kong By James Lee Phillips | July 12, 2011 7:52 PM HKT Even if you’re used to encryption, firewalls, and strong passwords, the latest security issue is far too deeply embedded in your gadgets. According to one DHS official, you’ve got foreign malware … See all stories on this topic » |
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| IRC Federal Hit by Cyber Attack eSecurity Planet By eSecurityPlanet Staff AntiSec hackers recently published sensitive data from IRC Federal, a contractor for the FBI and other federal agencies. “The data supposedly belonging to IRC Federal was posted to the Pastebin site on Friday by members of … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Energy lab still offline in wake of July 1 attack GCN.com By William Jackson Ten days after being targeted by what a spokesman called a “highly sophisticated cyber attack,” the Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., remains cut off from most of its Internet access as … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Transparency Wars Continue… Salon (blog) The Silicon Valley Metronews features my article “World Cyberwar And the Inevitability of Radical Transparency.” The topic is both ongoing and ever-new. I discuss how WikiLeaks ignited the first international cyber war — and how pro-business laws … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Exploiting the Term Cyberattack GovInfoSecurity.com (blog) Cyberwar on Orlando? Not so fast. “This is wrong on so many levels that it almost defies analysis,” James Lewis, senior fellow and director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, … See all stories on this topic » |
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| North Korea Responsible for the Assaults against South Korea, States McAfee SPAMfighter News McAfee the security software company reports that government websites of South Korea, which were compromised with cyber assaults during early 2011, might’ve been targeted with cyber warmilitary exercises that North Korea conducted, published TNW in … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Don’t count on gods to save data in cloud The Australian Source: Supplied LAST month’s massive cyber attack on and subsequent collapse of Melbourne hosting company Distribute.IT is a warning to all businesses of the need to maintain up-to-date back-ups of systems and data. Distribute. … See all stories on this topic » |
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Wednesday July 13th
| Syria’s cyber war against the regime’s opponents FRANCE 24 Syria’s cyber war against the regime’s opponents. Ramy Essam, the singer of the Egyptian revolution, back in Tahrir Square. An anti-PowerPoint party is formed in Switzerland. By Electron Libre The crackdown on anti-regime protesters continues in Syria … See all stories on this topic » |
| Cyberwar and cyber-isolationism Network World There has been a bit of a splash in the press recently about a mention by former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden of the idea of creating new, extra secure internets for government or commerce. Users would have to give up their privacy to use these … See all stories on this topic » |
| The true threat of Al Qaeda cyber terrorism TelecomTV As the US launches another Cyber Attack ‘awareness’ campaign, reports suggest that the threat ofcyber terrorism from al Qaeda is at an all-time low and their technical abilities have been over-stated. By Guy Daniels. Scientific American has published … See all stories on this topic » |
| A plutocrat firm gets its stuff taken by the cyber-paupers Global Security From a year ago, snapshot of a firm aggressively working cyberwar hype. A file containing more than 90000 e-mail addresses plus passwords, logins and other information was put on The Pirate Bay file-sharing site. The group [Anonymous] said it stole the … See all stories on this topic » |
| OVERNIGHT TECH: Pentagon drops cyberspace strategy Thursday The Hill (blog) James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will unveil the strategy, which is expected to focus more on deterring attacks on military networks than laying out a cyberwar plan for attacking enemy states. … See all stories on this topic » |
| EEDAR: PSN Welcome Back Program a Success VGChartz by Stefanie Fogel 12 hours ago, 627 views Sony’s Welcome Back appreciation program, launched after the recent cyber attack and subsequent downtime of the PlayStation Network, is being called a success by electronic entertainment research firm EEDAR. … See all stories on this topic » |
| Tuesday’s Cybercrime Briefing Attracts Star Line Up Hawaii Reporter Event highlights will include a real cyber attack on consumer computers to illustrate the rapid and extensive nature of these invasions. Chief Gary A. Yabuta, Maui County Department of Police will address the growing sophistication of these crimes and … See all stories on this topic » |
Thursday July 14th
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| PNNL Targeted With Sophisticated Cyber-Assault SPAMfighter News A cyber-attack, recently, on the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) of Department of Energy (DOE) compelled IT personnel to close each and every computer at the facility, so the systems were de-linked from external access, in an effort to … See all stories on this topic » |
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| BC-US–Waging Cyber War,128 WLOS They told Gov. Terry Branstad on Wednesday that teachers need to be paid like their workers — based on performance, not just on how long they’ve been on the job. … WLOS files and maintains quarterly Children’s Television Reports and DTV Consumer … See all stories on this topic » |
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| BC-US–Waging Cyber War,128 WGME Today: Morning clouds clear away to sunny skies. A few more afternoon clouds. Low humidity. Slight chance for an afternoon sprinkle in the mountains. Highs 75 to 80. … rising risk that the government will default on its debt. … See all stories on this topic » |
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Friday July 15th
| Pentagon makes love, not cyber war CNN International “The United States is fighting a cyber-war today, and we are losing,” retired admiral and former National Security Agency chief Mike McConnell wrote in the Washington Post last year. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta claimed cyber attacks could be the … See all stories on this topic » |
| Cyberwar Plan Has New Focus on Deterrence Wall Street Journal By JULIAN E. BARNES and SIOBHAN GORMAN The military must move from defending against major cyberattacks to deterring assaults by letting enemies know the US is willing to retaliate with its own virtual weapons or military force, a top general said … See all stories on this topic » |
| 24000 files taken from US Defense Dept. in cyber attack Jerusalem Post COM STAFF The US Defense Department was the victim an apparent cyber attack in March, losing some 24000 files to “foreign intruders,” the Washington Post quoted a Pentagon official as saying on Thursday. US Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III … See all stories on this topic » |
| Cyber Threats Prompt Calls For More Secure Network Huffington Post The new commander of the military’s cyberwar operations, Gen. Keith Alexander, has also endorsed the idea. The proposal is an acknowledgement that very little can be done to protect a network connected to the World Wide Web — a system originally … See all stories on this topic » |
| Almost All Businesses Surveyed Hit by Security Breach in Past Year TMC Net By Lance Whitney A full 90 percent of companies surveyed by the Ponemon Institute admitted that they were hit by a cyber attack over the past 12 months. Sponsored by Juniper Networks (News – Alert), the survey of IT and security professionals in the US … See all stories on this topic » |
| Tech Today: Google ‘Super Excited’ About Everything Wall Street Journal (blog) The admission came as the Pentagon announced a cyberwar strategy, calling for the Defense Department to “treat cyberspace as an operational domain to organize, train and equip.” Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, … See all stories on this topic » |
| Protect your business from cyber crimes Orlando Business Journal The need for businesses to be hyper-vigilant in protecting their digital assets recently was underscored by a coordinated cyber attack against city of Orlando-affiliated websites. Some computer hacking groups “look at hacking websites as a competition … See all stories on this topic » |