Tag Archives: security

War game reveals U.S. lacks cyber-crisis skills

By Fred | Published: February 18, 2010

Scene: The White House Situation Room. Event: A massive cyber attack has turned the cellphones and computers of tens of millions of Americans into weapons to shut down the Internet. A cascading series of events then knocks out power for most of the East Coast amid hurricanes and a heat wave. Is the assault on [...]

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Australia Federal Government builds secret database to fight cyber-terrorism

By Fred | Published: February 17, 2010

Australia’s biggest banks, telcos, and utilities have handed sensitive data to government for the protection of critical infrastructure (CI) against terrorism and natural disasters. The rare move, which began in 2009, makes the country one of a few in the world with a centralised national critical infrastructure protection model. The Critical Infrastructure Protection Modeling and [...]

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Trust Linux! OpenSuse

By Fred | Published: November 27, 2009

A team of researchers has implemented support for ‘trusted computing’ in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive toward more secure computing environments. The latest release of openSUSE, a Linux version sponsored by software maker Novell, comes packaged with software that allows users to [...]

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Securing the web

By Fred | Published: October 15, 2009

A new MIT programming tool would automatically plug holes that hackers exploit. Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office More and more, malicious hackers are exploiting web site security holes to attack their victims’ computers. Programmers try to identify those holes in advance and plug them with code that performs security checks; but if they find a [...]

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Hackers Stole IDs for Attacks

By Fred | Published: August 18, 2009

By SIOBHAN GORMAN from WSJ WASHINGTON — Russian hackers hijacked American identities and U.S. software tools and used them in an attack on Georgian government Web sites during the war between Russia and Georgia last year, according to new research to be released Monday by a nonprofit U.S. group. In addition to refashioning common Microsoft Corp. software [...]

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The Internet is incomplete, says its co-designer, Vinton Cerf

By Fred | Published: June 11, 2009

By Patrick Thibodeau from Computerworld WASHINGTON – The co-designer of the Internet’s basic architecture, Vinton Cerf, said the Internet “still lacks many of the features that it needs,” particularly in security, in a blunt talk to a tech industry crowd here. Cerf, who is a vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google Inc., co-designed [...]

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Google’s Chrome was ‘hackable’ at Pwn2Own contest

By Fred | Published: May 18, 2009

Sole surviving browser patches same bug used to make money off Safari flaw Computerworld – Although Google’s Chrome was the only browser left standing after March’s Pwn2Own hacking contest, it was vulnerable to the same bug that a German college student used to bring down Apple’s Safari, Google acknowledged this week. Although Google patched the [...]

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By Fred | Published: April 18, 2009

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BBC team exposes cyber crime risk

By Fred | Published: March 20, 2009

BBC News Spencer Kelly looks at how hackers use hijacked home PCs to send out millions of spam e-mails Software used to control thousands of home computers has been acquired online by the BBC as part of an investigation into global cyber crime. The technology programme Click has demonstrated just how at risk PCs are [...]

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NIST suggests areas for further security metrics research

By Fred | Published: March 13, 2009

By William Jackson from GCN.com Computer security is a difficult thing to quantify because, if done right, nothing happens. How, then, do you measure what didn’t happen? Nevertheless, meaningful metrics are necessary so security can become a reliable, repeatable process with the necessary levels of assurance. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) doesn’t [...]

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