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Natl Research Council Says: Show Us The MONEY
By Charles Jeter at 14 October, 2010, 5:18 pm
Surprised to find annual cybercrime damage spread somewhere between 300 million and 54 BILLION? So is the Director of National Intelligence. Today Brian Krebs of the Washington Post and Krebsonsecurity.com detailed a strong push for mandatory disclosure of cyber intrusion to include account hijacking and online identity theft:
A group tasked with devising strategies to deter … Read More.
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Loading ...Stuxnet: Cyberwarfare’s Universal Adaptor?
By Charles Jeter at 14 October, 2010, 9:21 am
Now that cyberwarfare is out of the bottle, will anyone agree to not use it? In the summer of 1945 in New Mexico, the Trinity test gave rise to the term ground zero. Could Stuxnet may be measured as a definitive ground zero in cyberwarfare comparable to Trinity?
Concerning Stuxnet’s latest rise in China, David Harley … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...From sci-fi to Stuxnet: exploding gas pipelines and the Farewell Dossier
By Charles Jeter at 30 September, 2010, 2:55 pm
In researching today’s SC Magazine Cybercrime Corner article “From sci-fi to Stuxnet: Exploding gas pipelines and the Farewell Dossier”, I came across this ‘Damn Interesting’ article which showcases the successful cyberwarfare compromise of a SCADA / pipeline control system nearly thirty years ago, an event which I had heard stories about in Navy circles but … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Iran Admits Stuxnet Infected Its Nuclear Power Plant
By Charles Jeter at 27 September, 2010, 9:55 am
While the defining research on the Stuxnet topic doesn’t go this far, Forbes writer Trevor Butterworth went out on a limb to name names along with detailing the warfare aspects:
As I noted last week – and as the news media have only begun to grasp – Stuxnet represents a conceptual change in the history of … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Facebook Competitor Faces Criticism – Is Diaspora DOA?
By Charles Jeter at 22 September, 2010, 5:02 pm
Really – should any Alpha version be fed through a chipper-shredder like Diaspora has? The basics are simple:
The basic premise behind Diaspora is that it will allow users to have social networking functionality similar to that offered by Facebook, but with far greater control over personal data.
Diaspora was born earlier this year largely in response … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Open Source Malware Fingerprinting – Free Tool
By Charles Jeter at 26 August, 2010, 3:51 pm
In my ever-widening circle of anti-cybercrime methodology this particular approach to attribution of the criminals looting the free world makes me particularly gleeful and I can’t wait to spread the good news:
Security company HBGary today released an open source tool to digitally fingerprint malicious code and help identify the source of the malware. The … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...21st Century Hunter-Killer UAV Enters Restricted DC Airspace – Skynet Alive?
By Charles Jeter at 25 August, 2010, 11:49 am
In a page directly out of Hollywood’s Terminator script the US Navy released details today about a rogue robot helicopter which diverted twenty-three miles penetrating restricted Washington DC airspace (ADIZ) after a complete loss of command and control on August 2nd due to “software anomaly.” Considering that a trojan-infected maintenance system is partially responsible … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Facebook Friending Gets A Guy Some Jail Time
By Charles Jeter at 18 August, 2010, 4:21 pm
Believe it or not, this cybercrime has some twists reminding all of us to beware the estranged techie ex who decides to hack email or instant messaging accounts and then escalate to Facebook friending.
Enter Harry W Bruder. This handsome devil is in his mid fifties, proving that not every Facebook user is a … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...How to Lie to Your Bank and Get Away With It
By Charles Jeter at 3 August, 2010, 3:18 pm
While we talk about the periodic leakages of personal information from Facebook and how that information is leveraged by cybercriminals, the community of Facebook users can change their ways. Let’s pair up victims with criminals based on what’s broadcast by the victim. Here are Facebook’s seven deadly sins matched up with the most likely categories … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Securing Our eCity Listed as Winner of National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge
By Charles Jeter at 15 July, 2010, 1:30 pm
For the Best Local/Community Plan, Securing Our eCity San Diego and MyMainePrivacy were both selected as winners. Both proposals offered innovated strategies for grassroots collaborative approaches with state and local government, public and private sector, and the academic community through their online classroom style trainings. The National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge, which Secretary Napolitano announced in… Read more.
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