Apache.org services recently suffered a direct, targeted attack against our infrastructure, specifically the server hosting our issue-tracking software.
Great example of an incident report.
Shadows in the Cloud documents a complex ecosystem of cyber espionage that systematically compromised government, business, academic, and other computer network systems in India, the Offices of the Dalai Lama, the United Nations, and several other countries.
"Our Web services and Web platforms will be inherently more secure" than alternatives, Schmidt said. "Hold us to this."
Okay.
The researchers say the spying is an example of a sophisticated shift that has occurred in malware networks from “what were once primarily simple to increasingly complex, adaptive systems spread across redundant services and platforms” and from ones that primarily focused on exploitation for criminal purposes to ones that are focused on “political, military, and intelligence-focused espionage.”
For me, the lesson of Cyber Shockwave is to first determine how your leaders think, then recommend policy actions. In the realm of digital security, this requires identifying what priorities your management places on digital security. With a better understanding of their thought process, you can tailor your message to match their strengths, weaknesses, hopes, fears, and biases.
One year after the Conficker botnet was front-page news around the world, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is preparing a report looking at the worldwide effort to keep it in check.
The report, to be published within the month, shows how an ad hoc group of security researchers and Internet infrastructure providers banded together into an organization they called the Conficker Working Group. Its goal was to address what was at the time the world's most serious cyberthreat.
Consider the following scenario. You're the mayor of a town. You need to decide how much of your budget to allocate to the fire department. To apply the most simplistic analysis to the problem, consider this scene. As mayor you give the fire chief a simple goal: "protect us from fires!" The fire chief asks you: "Mayor, on average, how fast do you want the fire department to respond to a fire?"
A computer security researcher has released a plugin for Firefox that provides a wealth of data on Web sites that may have been compromised with malicious code.
The plugin, called Fireshark, was released on Wednesday at the Black Hat conference
German authorities have arrested three people who worked for Hewlett-Packard as part of an investigation into alleged kickbacks paid in connection with a contract to supply equipment to Russian law enforcement.
Alexander is set to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday but has already provided written responses to questions from lawmakers.
Among other things, he stated that, faced with a cyber attack, the military must be able to respond in kind. It is "reasonable to assume that returning fire in cyberspace" is lawful, as long as any actions comply with the laws of war, he said in a 32-page document.
