‘All your IDS are belong to us,’ was the message on Monday, after researchers at networking security equipment vendor Stonesoft announced the discovery of evasion techniques that could be used by sophisticated attackers to bypass network based IDS and IPS. The disclosure raises questions about the effectiveness of a wide range of networking security products, but experts say those kind of questions are nothing new.
Chris Soghoian, a well-known privacy advocate and former Federal Trade Commission technologist, has filed a complaint with the FTC asking that the commission force Google to amend its privacy policy to reflect what he says are shortcomings in the company’s protection of data related to consumers’ searches.
Three months after the world first learned of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, insiders say that there’s a scramble to find and hire engineers with knowledge of both security and the industrial control systems that were Stuxnet’s intended target.
It took a malware attack with an unprecedented level of sophistication to make it happen, but officials in charge of the security of much of the country’s electrical grid have come ot the conclusion that there is a need for more secure software and better security processes and procedures to prevent future attacks in the vein of Stuxnet.
We’ve known for a long time that botnets are the Madwoman in the Attic at most major Internet service providers (ISPs)- an unseemly and occasionally embarrassing presence that is occasionally dealt with, but usually silently tolerated. But now, it seems, there’s pressure mounting on ISPs to do something about the endemic botnet operations that are leveraging their global networks to spew spam, carry out denial of service attacks and push malware.
Kaspersky Lab released its malware statistics report for September. Buried among the data on the top malware detected on users’ machines and being pushed from malicious Web sites is an interesting factoid: Iran no longer ranks as a Stuxnet hotspot, while India continues to struggle with the effects of the sophisticated virus.
Microsoft is proposing a new Internet-wide security model, based on the concepts of public health, that is designed to address the problem of how to prevent infected machines from affecting the security and performance of PCs elsewhere on the Web. The model would require each PC to present a “health certificate” that outlines its security posture before it could connect to the Internet.
Stuxnet Redux and The
Wire: United States
Governments, the Internet and security were the theme as Internet wiretapping, trans national cyber laws and the further
proliferation of Stuxnet – a computer virus believed to have state backing – topped this week’s news.
The last 10 years have seen a great number of advancements in the sophistication and usability of strong encryption programs, and many people now use encrypted messaging services by default. This has made it much simpler for people to keep their private thoughts and data private and secure, and now the government is working diligently to roll back all of that progress with a naive, ill-conceived effort to cripple secure communications networks in the name of national security.
UK police have arrested 19 cybercrime suspects who allegedly used the
ZeuS crimeware toolkit to capture online banking credentials before
looting victims’ bank accounts. Read the full article. [The Register]
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