Cyberwar Lessons from the War in Ukraine

The Aspen Institute has published a good analysis of the successes, failures, and absences of cyberattacks as part of the current war in Ukraine: "The Cyber Defense Assistance Imperative ­ Lessons from Ukraine." Its conclusion: Cyber defense assistance in Ukraine is working. The Ukrainian...

The US National Cyber Strategy

Last month, the White House released the "National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America. I generally don't have much to say about these sorts of documents. They're filled with broad generalities. Who can argue with: Defend the homeland by protecting networks, systems, functions, and dat...

Moroccan Hacktivists Target Foreign Sites, Sparking International Cyber Conflicts

Hacktivists are militant hackers attacking sites in Egypt, Morocco, Spain, and Israel. Their screen messages resemble banners used in protests, supporting various political, social, or religious ideologies. Active in Morocco, they often hack sensitive security systems. Behind their computer...

TEHTRI-Security released 13 0days against web tools used by evil attackers

Gents, As announced in recent emails here, we have just released 13 0days and new offensive concepts against most of the tools currently used by web attackers, like web shells, exploit packs, etc, during our new talk at SyScan Singapore 2010 : http://www.syscan.org/Sg/speakers.html012 We have giv...

Report: Cyberterror Not a Credible Threat

A new report by a Washington policy think tank dismisses out of hand the idea that terrorist groups are currently launching cyber attacks and says that the recent attacks against U.S. and South Korean networks were not damaging enough to be considered serious incidents.The report, written by Jame...