The Obama Administration reportedly debated kicking off its latest war-effort in Libya with a cyber-offensive targeting the Qaddafi regime’s air-defense infrastructure, according to a report from the New York Times.
Thomas Ryan, the independent security consultant who released a trove of e-mail communications from the Occupy Wall Street protesters, said he has been the target of numerous hacks and has received death threats after revealing information on the protestors plans to authorities.
A group of people affected by the TRICARE data breach in September has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Defense, alleging that the department and its health care organization didn’t properly safeguard personal information that was stored on backup tapes stolen last month.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued new guidance to help public companies determine when they may need to disclose an attack–or even a potential attack–in order to make potential investors aware of possible risks to the company’s business. The guidance, which does not constitute a rule or requirement for companies to disclose, is meant to help “registrants in assessing what, if any, disclosures should be provided about cybersecurity matters.”
Research in Motion CTO David Yach said that the rolling service outages that its Blackberry mobile phone system has experienced in the last few days wasn’t due to a security compromise, but to an unsuccessful fail over following a core switch failure in Europe.
A troubling and persistent virus infection at Creech Air Force base was kept secret from senior Air Force cyber security officials for weeks while IT staff in the affected unit at Creech struggled to eradicate the infection, according to a report by Wired.com.
The German government acknowledged on Tuesday that a trojan horse program used to perform lawful intercept is capable of far more than it was said to be. The confirmation comes after an analysis by hacking group The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) which alleged that the program may be in breach of the law.
Wired’s ThreatLevel Blog reported on Friday that a computer virus is plaguing the systems used to remotely control the U.S. military’s fleet of unmanned drone aircraft.
A House GOP task force called on Congress this week to adopt voluntary incentives – rather than federal requirements – to get private companies to further develop their cyber security.
Samy Kamkar has always been prescient. He first gained notoriety by showing how nascent social networks like MySpace could be used to spread malware rapidly among a population of millions (now billions) of users. His worm for MySpace, dubbed the ‘Samy Worm’ earned him a visit from law enforcement. But Kamkar kept up his research. More recently, he has turned his attention and considerable skills to the problem of persistent user tracking. His Evercookie, released in October, 2010, called attention to the myriad of ways that advertisers, media firms and online merchants were finding to track their customers – often despite explicit efforts by customers to prevent their online activities to be tracked. More recently, his research into suspicious geotagging was the foundation for a class action lawsuit against Microsoft.
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