Cyberattack

U.S. power companies under frequent cyberattack

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:48:30 GMT

Source: seclists.org --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Posted by InfoSec News on May 23 https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239442/U.S._power_companies_under_frequent_cyberattack By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service May 21, 2013 A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyberattacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying more than 300 million people, according to a congressional report. More than a dozen utilities said cyberattacks were daily or constant, according to the survey,... ...

ATM Cyberattack Worldwide: The $45M Heist [INFOGRAPHIC]

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:35:51 GMT

Source: www.nowpublic.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
http://economicrisis.com/atm-Cyberattack-worldwide-the-45m-heist-infographic/8777 ATM Cyberattack Worldwide: The $45M Heist [INFOGRAPHIC] This infographic portrays how the $45 million ATM heist happened, and how it could have been prevented. Read More and See Chart:... read more ...

US power companies under frequent cyberattack

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:33:00 GMT

Source: www.computerworlduk.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyberattacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying more than 300 million people, according to a congressional report. ...

Congressional Report: US Power Grid Highly Vulnerable To Cyberattack

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:08:05 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Congressional Report: US Power Grid Highly Vulnerable To Cyberattack http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/0155228/congressional-report-us-power-grid-highly-vulner hardware.slashdot.org An anonymous reader writes "Despite warnings that a Cyberattack could cripple the nation's power supply, a U.S. Congressional report (PDF) finds that power companies' efforts to protect the power grid are insufficient. Attacks are apparently commonplace, with one utility claiming they fight off some... ...

Some US utilities say they're under constant cyberattack

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:42:24 GMT

Source: brighterworld.ktsm.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Several power utilities say they face a barrage of cyberattacks on their critical systems, a report by two Democratic lawmakers found, echoing warnings from the ...

Chinese cyberattack on Google exposed spy data: US officials

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:16:05 GMT

Source: www.zdnet.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
An attack which took place against Google exposed sensitive data concerning U.S. surveillance targets. ...

U.S. Could Use Cyberattack on Syrian Air Defenses

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:23:42 GMT

Source: www.data-storage-today.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
The Pentagon has Cyberattack capabilities that allow the U.S. military to help blind Syrian air defenses without firing a shot, according to military analysts. "One of the reasons the Air Force has paid so much attention to cyberwarfare is ... for beating enemy air defenses," said James Lewis, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. U.S. abilities to defeat Syria's air defenses are central to a debate over whether to intervene in the 2-year-old civil war. Electronic methods to disable enemy air defense systems include the injection of malware, a form of computer software, into the air-defense network through a computer attack or by electronic warfare aircraft capable of jamming radar. The radars act like wireless transmitters, and jammers can send false or destructive information into the radar, which then gets into the network, said Shlomo Narkolayev, an analyst who has worked on cyber issues for the Israeli military's cyberwarfare unit. "It sounds like science fiction. It's not," Narkolayev said. "It's not hard to do this," he said. Syria and other nations are constantly adjusting the electronics for their air systems, and Air Force documents show the U.S. military does the same with its cyberweapons. They are constantly updated to counter changes made by enemy militaries. A 2007 Israeli attack on a suspected Syrian nuclear power plant in 2007 provided a template for a future attack. The Israelis used ...