What Israel's Strike on Hamas Hackers Means For Cyberwar

On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a building that allegedly housed an active Hamas hacking group—a potential first for cyberwar...

Beers with Talos EP 36: There Are Few Shades in the Grey Market

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 36 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast. Ep. 36 show notes: Recorded Aug. 24, 2018 — We’re finally back in the studio after Hacker Summer Camp!...

Future Cyberwar

A report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies looks at surprise and war. One of the report's cyberwar scenarios is particularly compelling. It doesn't just map cyber onto today's tactics, but completely reimagines future tactics that include a cyber component quote starts on pag...

Cyberwar: Greek & Turkish hackers target each other’s media outlets

By Ionatan Last week the world witnessed cyber-confrontation between Turkish and Greek This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cyberwar: Greek & Turkish hackers target each other's media outlets...

DDoS attacks in Q4 2017

News overview In terms of news about DDoS attacks, the last quarter of 2017 was livelier than the previous one. Some major botnets were discovered and destroyed. For instance, early December saw the FBI, Microsoft, and Europol team up to knock out the Andromeda botnet, in operation since 2011. In...

North Korean Cyberwar Capabilities

Reuters has an article on North Korea's cyberwar capabilities, specifically "Unit 180." They're still not in the same league as the US, UK, Russia, China, and Israel. But they're getting better...

Cris Thomas on Cyberwar Rhetoric

Cris Thomas of Tenable Networks, aka Space Rogue of the L0pht, talks to Mike Mimoso during RSA Conference about the rhetoric and hype surrounding cyberwar, as well as a quick trip down memory lane with the L0pht and its famous 1998 testimony before Congress. Download:...

Evolution and Adaptation in the Security Jungle

CANCUN—One of the more difficult aspects of defending a network or system is trying to keep up with the new tactics and techniques that attackers use. They modify their techniques constantly, and security teams must do they same or they won’t survive. Evolve or die has become the rule. Of course,...

D.C.'s Complicated View of Cyberwar, Regulation, Liability

MINNEAPOLIS – Lawmakers and politicians trying to equate cyberwar with a kinetic battle are misguided in putting the two on equal footing, said former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart A. Baker today in his keynote at the Cyber Security Summit. “Cyberweapons are not like nuclear...

Eugene Kaspersky on Critical Infrastructure Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Eugene Kaspersky about the need for better critical infrastructure security, the major threats facing enterprises today and the specter of cyberwar. Download: digitalunderground150.mp3...

Cyberespionage, Not Cyber Terror, is the Major Threat, Former NSA Director Says

CHANTILLY, VA–The list of threats on the Internet is long and getting longer each day. Cybercrime, nation-state attackers, cyber espionage and hacktivists all threaten the security and stability of the network and its users in one way or another. But the one threat that some experts have warned...

Researcher Eric Filiol Withdraws CanSecWest Presentation

A presenter at this week’s CanSecWest security conference has withdrawn his scheduled talk for fear the information could be used to attack critical infrastructure worldwide. Eric Filiol, scientific director of the Operational Cryptology and Virology lab. CTO/CSO of the ESIEA in France, pulled hi...

NSA infected more than 50,000 computer networks with Malware

The NSA has the ability to trace "anyone, anywhere, anytime". In September we reported that how NSA and GCHQ planted malware via LinkedIn and Slashdot traffic to hack largest telecom company Belgacom's Engineers. Yesterday, a Dutch newspaper has published a new secret NSA document provided by...

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, ...

Cyberwar Name Game a Dangerous Play

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The term “cyberwar” is the “zero day” of security jargon; it’s getting so that every bug is a zero day and every attack is hash-tagged cyberwar. This serves only to distract smart people from making smart decisions. Too much brainpower and bandwidth is being wasted on...

Eugene Kaspersky Addresses the Audience

Eugene Kaspersky urged the audience at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit to think seriously about the state of security and the implications of the cyberwar operations that have been uncovered recently...

U.S. Cyberwar Doctrine Would Not Matter Without International Agreement

When the history of cyberwar is written, 2012 may well be marked down as the year that it all began in earnest. Governments have been attacking one another electronically for decades now, but the last 12 months have seen both the concept and reality of cyberwar elbow their way into the...

Anonymous leaks personal information of 5000 Israeli officials

Internet hacktivist group Anonymous has declared cyberwar on Israel, posting personal data of five thousand Israeli officials online. "It has come to our attention that the Israeli government has ignored repeated warnings about the abuse of human rights, shutting down the internet in Israel and...

Gary McGraw on Cyberwar and the Folly of Hoarding Cyber-Rocks

Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about some of the holes in the current thinking about cyberwar, why traditional military analogies don’t hold up in cyberwar discussions and how better defense can make a difference. McGraw will be discussing his thoughts on cyberwar at King’s Colle...

Sun iPlanet Error Page Link Injection

Sun iPlanet Error Page Link Injection known about long time, but no CVE! probably because this really lame vulnerability! some security pro will say this good for social engineering and give cyberwar example! GET...