US Military approved iPhones and iPads for military networks

The US Department of Defense has cleared Apple's iPhone and iPad for use on its military networks, along with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and BlackBerry 10 devices, the agency said in a statement Friday. The entire DOD is much, much larger, of course, and mobile devices are increasing in importance for...

US Military approved iPhones and iPads for military networks

The US Department of Defense has cleared Apple's iPhone and iPad for use on its military networks, along with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and BlackBerry 10 devices, the agency said in a statement Friday. The entire DOD is much, much larger, of course, and mobile devices are increasing in importance for...

U.S. Department of Defense Officials are potential target of cyber espionage via social networking sites

In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveal enormous potentiality that could be...

DDIVRT-2013-53 Actuate 'ActuateJavaComponent' Multiple Vulnerabilities

Title ----- DDIVRT-2013-53 Actuate 'ActuateJavaComponent' Multiple Vulnerabilities Severity -------- High Date Discovered --------------- March 19, 2013 Discovered By ------------- Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research Team Credit: Dennis Lavrinenko, Bobby Lockett, and r@b13$ 1. Actuate...

Pentagon Decision Moves Android Security in Right Direction

Android’s security gets its share of grief, but perhaps it’s been a bit misguided. Like many other popular open source technologies, there are a number of different flavors of the mobile platform, each with its security properties and nuances. That’s why the Pentagon’s decision to endorse the use...

Finger-Pointing on Cyberespionage Does Little Good Without Plan

In its annual report to Congress detailing the capabilities of and threats from China, Pentagon officials spend dozens of pages explaining the People’s Liberation Army’s strengths and weaknesses in each area, from nuclear weapons to artillery to information warfare. It reads the way you would...

Chinese Hackers Steal Info from top secret U.S military data

QinetiQ, a UK-based defense contractor suffers humiliation as intelligence officials confirmed that China was able to steal the U.S. classified documents and pertinent technological information all this because of QinetiQ's faulty decision-making. QinetiQ North America QQ a world leading defense...

Chinese Hackers Steal Info from top secret U.S military data

QinetiQ, a UK-based defense contractor suffers humiliation as intelligence officials confirmed that China was able to steal the U.S. classified documents and pertinent technological information all this because of QinetiQ's faulty decision-making. QinetiQ North America QQ a world leading defense...

Obama Expands Surveillance to Critical Infrastructure

A little-known policy through which the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security offered prosecutorial immunity to companies that helped the U.S. military monitor Internet traffic on the private networks of defense contractors has reportedly been expanded by Executive Order to inclu...

Inductive Automation Ignition Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Overview ICS-CERT has received a report from Rubén Santamarta concerning a vulnerability in Inductive Automation’s Ignition software. Ignition is an updated version of FactoryPMI Plant Management Interface, offered by Inductive Automation. This vulnerability allows unauthorized users to download...

Comment Crew's Operation Beebus Stealing Drone Tech

FireEye experts have been tracking the Operation Beebus campaign for a few months now, and their latest research suggests that whomever is responsible for the attacks is ultimately interested in stealing drone technology-related secrets. Operation Beebus is an APT-style attack campaign targeting...

Anonymous hackers launch massive cyber assault on Israel Cyberspace, #OpIsrael

A cyber attack campaign, dubbed OpIsrael by hacking group Anonymous, targeting Israeli websites caused massive disruption to government, academic and private sites Sunday. Israeli media said small business had been targeted. Some homepage messages were replaced with anti-Israel slogans. Anonymous...

#OpIsrael - 7 APRIL Anonymous calls to army for massive attack against Israel

We are on the eve of the fateful day, April 7th, the collective of Anonymous announced a massive cyber attack against the state of Israel as part of the campaign started in the last months and named OpIsrael. The hacktivists are conducting a massive call to army to recruit new forces and inform a...

Tallinn Manual Interprets International Law in Cyberwar Context

When nations eventually adopt ground rules for conflict in cyberspace as they apply in an actual kinetic war, the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, is likely to be their key reference material in doing so. The Tallinn Manual, officially released late last week, ...

STUNSHELL Web Shell Remote PHP Code Execution

This module exploits unauthenticated versions of the "STUNSHELL" web shell. This module works when safe mode is enabled on the web server. This shell is widely used in automated RFI payloads. Module Options msf use exploit/multi/http/stunshell/eval msf undefinedeval show actions ...actions... msf...

Cyber 9/11, cyber doomsday...between fear and need for action

It's not a mystery, every nation is worried of the level of security of its infrastructure, the United States are among the most concerned governments due the high number of cyber-attack against its networks. US Government representative such us former States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and...

Cyber 9/11, cyber doomsday...between fear and need for action

It’s not a mystery, every nation is worried of the level of security of its infrastructure, the United States are among the most concerned governments due the high number of cyber-attack against its networks. US Government representative such us former States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and...

NSA Director Alexander: US Building Cyberattack Teams

More rhetoric is coming out of Washington regarding the use of malware as an auxiliary weapon to bombs and bullets. National Security Agency leader Gen. Keith Alexander told a House Armed Services Committee yesterday that his new Cyber Command will be ready to retaliate should the United States...

DDIVRT-2013-51 DALIM Dialog Server 'logfile' Local File Inclusion

Title ----- DDIVRT-2013-51 DALIM Dialog Server 'logfile' Local File Inclusion Severity -------- High Date Discovered --------------- February 14, 2013 Discovered By ------------- Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research Team Credit: 0x00string, Ryan Oliver and r@b13$ Vulnerability Description...

China Publicly Claims to Be the Victim of U.S. Cyberattacks

On Thursday the Chinese government, long considered the aggressor in highly publicized U.S. cyberattacks, publicly spoke about being the victim. Two of its military Web sites were attacked an average of 144,000 per month and two-thirds of those strikes came from the United States, according to a...