Forensic experts fuse technology, intelligence for investigations

From The New York Times John Markoff The small cadre of experts who spend their time doing the meticulous, painstaking work of tracing cyber attacks is increasingly relying on a combination of advanced technical tools and old-fashioned intelligence-gathering techniques to track down the people an...

Radical steps are needed to fix Internet security

The Internet as we know it today was designed to be a place where people could go about their business, whatever it happened to be, anonymously and without interference from other users. This model worked reasonably well for a long time, but it’s become painfully clear in recent months that some...

GhostNet shows extent of online spying

As a result of some tremendous work done by researchers at the University of Toronto, we now know that there is an enormous network of compromised machines in more than 100 countries around the world, many of them in government agencies, embassies and other sensitive locations. The network has it...

The cybersecurity mess on the White House front steps

If President Obama thinks fixing the broken U.S. economy is a challenge, and ending the ground wars in the Middle East a conundrum, wait until he gets around to tackling cybersecurity. Obama must reverse the abject lack of any sort of meaningful coordinated defense against intensifying and...

A springboard for attack and Defense-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Hackers in the attack will borrow from other systems to their own purposes, such as for the next target of the attack and occupied the computer itself use, and so on. This article describes the common hacker to the usurped computer use and Security Administrator to the appropriate response method...

The Nansh0u Campaign – Hackers Arsenal Grows Stronger

In the beginning of April, three attacks detected in the Guardicore Global Sensor Network GGSN caught our attention. All three had source IP addresses originating in South-Africa and hosted by VolumeDrive ISP see IoCs...