The early part of the week was a little slower than normal with not a lot of traffic being generated. News reports slowed substantially until more information started to be released on the DigiNotar hack details became more obvious. As the week progresses details included more information on specific countries and industries that appear to have been attacked. The weaknesses in the certificate authority systems have existed for quite some time.
The blogger Fabius Maximus has waded into the cyber war debate which is kind of interesting. He’s not to far off target, but he is definitely following the anti-establishement thread and trying to tease out details that are specific to his case. Unfortunately he isn’t looking at the broader picture, but all that suggests is a mild case of bias that we all have when writing.
The week closes out with the the story that the United States and Australia are creating a mutual cooperation agreement mechanism for fighting in cyber space. An interesting element is that a separate agreement for cyber is needed and that normal treaty/agreements were decided that they didn’t cover cyber.
Monday September 12th
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| Mexican Catholic website hit by cyber attack Catholic News Agency The Catholic Multimedia Center website in Mexico was hit by a cyber attack on Sept. 7. Hackers succeeded in knocking a portal that provides information on the Diocese of Mexico City offline. The director of the website, Father Omar Sotelo, … See all stories on this topic » |
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| UW 9/11 panel: We’re safer but still vulnerable The Seattle Times 11 attacks and their legacy agreed that the US is clearly safer now, but warned of continuing vulnerability to cyber-attack and the emergence of lone-wolf, homegrown extremists. By Mike Carter Former US Sens. Bob Kerrey, left, and Slade Gorton, center, … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Saints Row: The Third – Deckers.Die Trailer (OFFICIAL) YouTube Upon arriving in Steelport, the Saints find their bank accounts wiped out by a Deckers cyber-attack. For the Saints, there’s only one thing left to do: hack into the Deckers user-net, engage in their own brand of cyberbullying, and shut down the … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Botnets descend from the skies msnbc.com They could be botmasters aiming to wage a cyber attack via the smartphone in your pants. “The coolness factor is actually an attraction for attacks,” Sven Dietrich, a computer scientist at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Cyberwar: a Whole New Quagmire. Part 2: “Do as I say, not as I do” shall be … FM blog (blog) Part 2: “Do as I say, not as I do” shall be the whole of the law. by Marcus J. Ranum At the end are links to get more information about this incident and cyberwar. Digital Certificate (aka public key certificate): an electronic document using a digital … See all stories on this topic » |
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| IM email a bid to derail High Court blast probe? Daily Pioneer The bomb blast at the Delhi High Court on Wednesday was followed by a cyber attack on the Delhi Police’s official website to disorient the probe. It has been reliably learnt that the mail purportedly written by Ali Saed El-Hoorie was delivered in the … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Arming the country for cyber attack The Age The government is certainly acting as if it takes cyber war seriously. Cyber threats loomed large in the 2009 defence white paper, and in January last year the government opened a big new CyberSecurity Operations Centre where 130 people will take … See all stories on this topic » |
| ‘Turkish hackers preparing cyber attack on Israeli sites’ Jerusalem Post By YAAKOV LAPPIN Head of major Israeli website building company says defense systems have identified “tracks” left behind by Turkish hackers. Turkish hackers are preparing to launch a wave ofcyber attacks on sensitive Israeli internet sites, … See all stories on this topic » |
| NATO seeks Indian cooperation in cyber warfare domain-B Brussels: European security bloc NATO has sought cooperation with India in the arena of cyberwarfare in a bid to counter threats, particularly those originating from China. Increasingly, NATO officials are trying to draw India into their ambit of … See all stories on this topic » |
| Iranian Cyberwar DefenseNews.com (subscription) By Ilan Berman Does the Islamic Republic of Iran pose a cyber threat to the United States? On the surface, the idea seems far-fetched. Squeezed by sanctions over its nuclear ambitions, suffering from widespread social malaise and weathering … See all stories on this topic » |
| Task force works to add military jobs for Tampa area Tbo.com To Bayless, McRaven’s speech during the Army’s cyber warfare conference could not have been more encouraging. Bayless, now the senior business development manager for Sypris Electronics, is heading up a Hillsborough County effort to turn the region’s … See all stories on this topic » |
Tuesday September 13th
| US not prepared for major cyber attack, study warns The Hindu The report comes amid growing worries the US is not prepared for a major cyber attack, even as hackers, criminals and nation states continue to probe and infiltrate government and critical business networks millions of times a day. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Metasploit guide 4: Armitage cyber attack management GUI SearchSecurity.in This fourth and final installment of our Metasploit guide takes a look at Armitage, the cyber attackmanagement tool for Metasploit. Armitage provides a GUI for the console-based framework that we covered in the previous three parts of this Metasploit … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Survey Shows Just 2% of MPs, Business Leaders and Journalist Believe Cyber … SYS-CON Media (press release) The survey findings suggest that there is a continuing failure to grasp the importance of the cyber threat despite the government categorising the possibility of cyber-attack a tier one threat in the National Security Strategy and warnings from the … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Russian Embassy Site Hit by Cyber Attack eSecurity Planet By eSecurityPlanet Staff | September 12, 2011 The Web site for the Russian Embassy in London was recently taken down by a distributed denial of service attack just prior to UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Moscow. “It seems … the attack was … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Linux Foundation Websites Shut Following Cyber Attack ITProPortal The Linux Foundation has taken down its main websites and other related websites after suffering a hack attack on its servers. The organisation discovered the attack on its servers on September 8, after which it decided to take down the websites until … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Combat robots, cyber warfare and other new faces of modern conflict World Radio Switzerland They are flexible, resilient, tireless and can be sent on suicide missions. They’re not soldiers but combat robots—and they are just one of the new weapon technologies being discussed by the International Committee of the Red Cross. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Catholic newspaper website falls victim to hacker Belfast Telegraph The Irish Catholic newspaper believes its coverage of Irish government tensions with the Vatican provoked a cyber attack on its website. It is now considering contacting police over a hacking incident on Sunday, which replaced text on the homepage and … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Hacktivists Leak Complete Neo-Nazi Website Database Death and Taxes By DJ Pangburn Monday, September 12, 2011 Cyber War News reported that Anonymous hacked and posted the entire database of Neo-Nazi website AryanBooks.com to Pirate Bay. AryanBooks.com is apparently like a Facebook for Neo-Nazis. … See all stories on this topic » |
Wednesday September 14th
| South Africans under cyber attack The New Age Online … the early stage of cellphone attacks through trusted application downloads. • New Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) attacks will be developed and launched. • Exponential growth of more intelligent zero-day malware both for cyber crime and cyber war. See all stories on this topic » |
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| Cyber-attack: A big one is coming says US Cyber Command General Network World By Layer 8 on Tue, 09/13/11 – 5:40pm. It’s not the first time we’ve heard this but it’s always a little disconcerting especially from some one so closely involved with the security realm: A destructive attack from cyberspace “is coming, in my opinion. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Cyberwar: a Whole New Quagmire. Part 3: Conflating Threats FM blog (blog) by Fabius Maximus Summary: When cyberwar proponents talk about our vulnerability to attacks, they play on our fears by freely mixing things that are obvious and likely – such as malware and online crime, with things that are highly unlikely — such as … See all stories on this topic » |
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| “Threat of cyber attacks on CNI requires urgent response” states Chatham House … Info4Security New research by Think Tank Chatham House suggests Board directors at some of the UK’s biggest banks and utility companies remain “largely uninformed” about the financial and reputational risks associated with cyber attack. Brian Sims reports. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Western nations in cyber arms race SC Magazine Australia “They are trying to find out what talent exists and have commenced big recruitment drives,” Feaken said in a phone interview ahead of the Cyber War conference in Canberra today. “The US is bringing in 1000 plus people into its cyber security divisions … See all stories on this topic » |
Thursday September 15th
| Cyber war added to ANZUS pact Sydney Morning Herald AUSTRALIA and the US have marked the 60th anniversary of their mutual defence pact by addingcyber warfare to the ANZUS Treaty. It is the first formal deal between two powers outside NATO to combat the emerging security threat. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| US needs to be on-guard for a big cyber-attack Network World By Michael Cooney, Network World A destructive attack from cyberspace “is coming, in my opinion. It is a question of time. What we don’t know is how far out it is,” and whether it will target commercial infrastructure, government networks or mobile … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Cyberwar bad for business SC Magazine Australia The US Government said in 2004 that it could answer a cyber attack on its Domain Name Servers with bombs, and the British Government had spoken of its intention to build offensive network capabilities. But offensive hacking-back capabilities were … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Offensive or defensive? The law of cyber-warfare PC Authority by John Hilvert on Sep 15, 2011 Cyber warfare entered a new era since Stuxnet, James Farwell, a US-based strategic communications, specialist, claims. One of several specialists addressing the 2nd National Cyber Warfare Conference in Canberra this week … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Control Systems and Cyber Warfare CullmanSense The 2010 Class was the first class to graduate officers into the new Cyber Warfare career field, which Robert was selected to enter. After completing Cyber Warfare training in Mississippi, Lt. Robert M. Lee published a paper titled, “Stuxnet and the … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Israeli-Turkish cyberwar begins Jewish Tribune Hackers calling themselves the ‘TurkGuvenligi group’ claimed they had done the cyber-attack. TurkGuvenligi translates as ‘Turkish security.’ “The hack represents a 10 per cent to 15 per cent spike compared to the average number of daily hacks of … See all stories on this topic » |
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Friday September 16th
| US, Australia vow cyber war joint response News24 Was R67.95 Now R64.55 San Francisco – The US and Australia said on Thursday that a cyberattack in either country would trigger a joint response, as they sought common ground in a changing world with China on the rise. The Australian and US defence and … See all stories on this topic » |
| Cyber warfare lays ground for non-state actors iT News One of several specialists addressing the second national cyber warfare conference in Canberra this week, Farwell argued that a dominantly tactical approach to cyber warfare at a state level was flawed. “It’s an era where cyber weapons can achieve the … See all stories on this topic » |
| A short description about your blog CIOZone The Fortune top 2000 companies as well as Governments across the world are under serious cyberattack and it is likely to get much worse. Cybercrime is a generic term for the illegal incursion and disruption at the national, enterprise and community … See all stories on this topic » |
| 9/11 Commission warns: Country still at risk Evening News and Tribune By Lesley Weidenbener Franklin College Statehouse Bureau BLOOMINGTON — The United States remains vulnerable to a cyber attack on utilities, banks and other civilian institutions as well as physical attacks from lone-wolf and sometimes home-grown … See all stories on this topic » |
| NATO, Taliban Throw Down on Twitter MediaPost Publications by Erik Sass, Yesterday, 11:42 AM “Cyber-warfare” usually refers to high-level hacking, but this gives the phrase a whole new meaning: a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force has been dueling on Twitter with a spokesman for … See all stories on this topic » |
| Peace, says the dragon Daily Pioneer One could add a myriad of other examples to the list; one of them is cyber warfare. In an article in The China Youth Daily, “Fight A Cyber War, How?” a young Chinese explains: “Cyber warfare is different from the traditional warfare of the past, … See all stories on this topic » |
| Being lost between perception & reality Frontier Post A fast internet connection, a mini notebook or a laptop, PDA (I-Mac/ Android) with a nerd sitting on it, is the basic ingredients of “anamelessstrategic legionnaire”, in today’s cyber war zone. Today all sorts of wars, conventional or unconventional, … See all stories on this topic » |
| An internal attack on U.S. defense Charlotte Observer But he says any cyber attack that “crippled our (electricity) grid or took down our financial system would make Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined look mild” in terms of social disruption. Although acyber attack “is moving up” on his list of his worries, … See all stories on this topic » |