Cyberattacks

Source: slashdot.org --- 27 days ago
courteaudotbiz writes "Canada and all members of the U5 (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France and New-Zealand) state that they all suffered government-directed attacks between june and september 2007. These seemed to be Chinese government sponsored attacks." It's a google translation, so it's a bit hard to read, but it seems to be a recurring story these last few months. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

Source: blog.wired.com --- 18 days ago
http://www.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcn&story.id=46457 (((If you work in any government's computers, I'd strongly advise a look at this. At the least, you'll be able to talk a coherent language when your political masters ask what the hell is going on.))) Link: Lauri Almann | Lessons from the Cyberattacks on Estonia . GCN Interview with Lauri Almann, Estonia’s permanent undersecretary of Defence It’s been a little more than a year since botnets temporarily disabled Estonia’s government Web sites in an incident that could go down in history as the Cyberattacks heard round the world. Lauri Almann, Estonia’s permanent undersecretary of Defence, was part of the team that responded to the attacks. He was in Washington recently to discuss how to guard against future attacks and the steps Estonia is taking to prepare for what he believes could be an even more debilitating assault the next time. His videotaped comments are available in a series of one-to two-minute responses. The following is an excerpt of the interview. GCN: Where were you when it became clear that the Cyberattacks on Estonia were more than just a random assault? And how did the Ministry of Defence respond? Lauri Almann: We were sitting in the government situation room, and suddenly in walks our chief [public relations] person, who says, “We are unable to put our press releases out” on government Web sites. We didn’t understand the seriousness o ...

Source: news.zdnet.co.uk --- 19 days ago
Security minister Lord West has warned that the government is tackling ongoing state-sponsored Cyberattacks on UK national infrastructure ...

Source: www.computerworld.com --- 23 days ago
Security experts say that claims Chinese hackers accessed the computers of U.S. congressmen are not well substantiated. ...

Source: www.networkworld.com --- 13 days ago
Eighty-one percent of corporate end points failed basic security checks in a wide ranging global survey by security solutions and services provider Sophos. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 12 days ago
NetworkWorld Jun 24 2008 5:59PM GMT ...

Source: isc.sans.org --- 22 days ago
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Source: www.circleid.com --- 10 days ago
In a recent interview by Krish Raghav, from Wall Street Journal's LiveMint.com, Howard Schmidt, an information networks expert and a senior cyber-security adviser in the Bush administration, talked about several hot Internet issues, including net neutrality and cyber-attacks. In this report, Raghav starts with the following statement: "In the last 12 months, some 10 Indian government ministry websites have been targets of cyber-attacks. Recently, security experts with Boston-based Core Security Technologies said such attackers could "gain control of countries' water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities". More... ...

Source: www.gcn.com --- 23 days ago
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Source: www.gcn.com --- 18 days ago
GCN Interview: Estonia’s permanent undersecretary of Defence talks about the lessons learned from last year’s Cyberattacks on the country’s networks and what every country can do to protect against similar attacks. ...

Source: westernstandard.blogs.com --- 24 days ago
I discuss what it means for the free world here .  It's part and parcel of an overseas intimidation effort first exposed in Canada three years ago. It's not quite the same silencing tactics of, say, human rights commissions, but it is a reminder of the importance of free speech.  The cadres know its value - so much so that they are determined to use their spy network to snuff it out. If a dictatorship half a world away can appreciate the value of freedom of speech to a democratic society, why can't the Canadian commissioners? ...

Source: planet-google.com --- 27 days ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 58 days ago
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Source: www.npr.org --- 6 days ago
Last week, two popular hip hop websites were hacked by apparent hate groups. When people visited SOHH.com and AllHipHop.com, they saw the regular content replaced with racist images and racial slurs. Farai Chideya gets the latest on the Cyberattacks. ...

Source: news.zdnet.co.uk --- 66 days ago
The concerted denial-of-service attempts against Estonia's critical national infrastructure have been a wake-up call for governments around the world ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 59 days ago
ZDNet May 8 2008 3:29PM GMT ...

Source: www.phayul.com --- 55 days ago
The Indian government has released information that Indian websites, over the last 18 months, have been subject to online assaults originating from communist China ...

Source: service.edna.edu.au --- 30 days ago
The Federal government has launched a new security alert service for small business and home users, aimed at helping Australians protect themselves from Cyberattacks. The Federal Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has unveiled its new online threat alert service through the Stay Smart Online website. ZDNet Australia, 6 June 2008 ...

Source: www.scmagazineus.com --- 70 days ago
The websites of both Democratic presidential candidates have been hit by cross-site scripting (XSS) exploits. ...