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Noisebridge is an infrastructure provider for technical-creative projects, collaboratively run by its members. We are incorporated as a non-profit educational corporation for public benefit.Noisebridge is an infrastructure provider for technical-creative projects,... more
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Offensive Operations in Cyberspace
Offensive Operations in Cyberspace
The Launching of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM).
Offensive Operations in Cyberspace
By Tom Burghardt
Ostensibly launched to protect military networks against malicious cyberattacks, the command's offensive nature is underlined by its role as STRATCOM's operational cyber wing. In addition to a defensive brief to "harden" the "dot-mil" domain, the Pentagon plan calls for an offensive capacity, one that will deploy cyber weapons against imperialism's adversaries.Offensive Operations in Cyberspace
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A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations against adversaries' computer networks.A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and... more
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Jacques Erasmus a reformed hacker who now works for a security firm called Prevx. Demonstrates how a hacker takes control of a computer by infecting it with trojan software.
This infection allows the hacker to view whatever is on the victim's screen and record his key strokes.
Prevx company downloaded the trojan for research purposes. The trojan and bank accounts used in this video are real. The 'victim' in this simulated attack gave permission for his laptop to be infected for the filming.Jacques Erasmus a reformed hacker who now works for a security firm called Prevx.... more
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He's not the first, and he'll probably not be the last, but another hacker has reportedly claimed that he hacked into Twitter.
Two days ago, an, unsurprisingly, anonymous hacker (although calling himself Hacker Croll) uploaded 13 pictures of him logged into the Twitter account of Jason Goldman, a director of product management with Twitter.
Biz Stone, CEO of Twitter, admitted Twitter had been breached in a blog post the following day, saying: "This week, unauthorized access to Twitter was gained by an outside party. Our initial security reviews and investigations indicate that no account information was altered or removed in any way. However, we discovered that 10 individual accounts were viewed during this unauthorized access."
The hacker apparently was able to access some celeb accounts such as Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears, although it's not believed he did anything naughty.
Surely a bit embarrassing for Twitter.?He's not the first, and he'll probably not be the last, but another hacker... more
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Open ID is now being used by Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr, Paypal, Google, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace, IBM, LiveJournal and VeriSign, among many others.
OpenID is a distributed single sign on solution that allows people to sign into different services with the same login credentials.
Simply put, one cracked OpenID site (by hackers, the government, parents, etc) could result in total profile information access and/or one's identity being abused over several other OpenID sites.
The creator of OpenID currently works at Google.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID#Security_and_phishingOpen ID is now being used by Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr, Paypal, Google, Microsoft, AOL,... more
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Wanted: Computer hackers.
Federal authorities aren't looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks.
General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could "think like the bad guy." Applicants, it said, must understand hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems.
In the Pentagon's budget request submitted last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Pentagon will increase the number of cyberexperts it can train each year from 80 to 250 by 2011.
With warnings that the U.S. is ill-prepared for a cyberattack, the White House conducted a 60-day study of how the government can better manage and use technology to protect everything from the electrical grid and stock markets to tax data, airline flight systems, and nuclear launch codes.
President Barack Obama appointed a former Bush administration aide, Melissa Hathaway, to head the effort, and her report was delivered Friday, the White House said. While the country had detailed plans for floods, fires or errant planes drifting into protected airspace, there is no similar response etched out for a major computer attack.
David Powner, director of technology issues for the Government Accountability Office, told Congress last month that the U.S. has no recovery plan for a digital disaster.
U.S. computer networks, including those at the Pentagon and other federal agencies, are under persistent attack, ranging from nuisance hacking to more nefarious assaults, possibly from other nations, such as China. Industry leaders told Congress during a recent hearing that law enforcement and other protections are too outdated to fend off threats from criminals, terrorists and unfriendly foreign nations.Wanted: Computer hackers.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand teenager who helped a crime gang hack into more than 1 million computers worldwide and skim millions of dollars from bank accounts has a new job as a security consultant for a telecom company.
Owen Thor Walker has the skills that can help senior executives and customers understand the security threats to their computer networks, TelstraClear spokesman Chris Mirams told National Radio on Wednesday.
Walker pleaded guilty last July — when he was 18 — to a raft of charges connected to his work for an international network that the FBI estimated infiltrated 1.3 million computers and skimmed bank accounts or damaged computer systems to the tune of more than $20 million.
The charges against Walker — who used the online name "AKILL" and wrote so-called botnet infiltration programs for the crime network — were dismissed and he was released without a criminal record after paying a fine and forfeiting cash paid by the criminal group for his expertise.
Walker already has delivered a series of seminars for TelstraClear, advised senior security and management staff at the company and has taken part in an advertising campaign, Mirams said.
"It was really just ... to let them know the type of cyber threats that are out there," Mirams said, adding that Walker also discussed how to defend against those threats.
Some hackers send mass e-mails to a target corporate or government computer system to overload it and crash the system. Others assume control of thousands of computers and amass them in centrally controlled clusters known as botnets.
The hackers can then use the computers to steal credit card information, manipulate stock trades and crash industry computer systems.WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand teenager who helped a crime gang hack into... more
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From CDT:
"Earlier this summer, the US Secret Service and FBI warned Barack Obama and John McCain’s campaign teams that their computer networks had been compromised by foreign hackers.
The cyber attackers successfully downloaded large quantities of information from the campaign networks, which security agencies believed was an attempt to learn more about the contenders’ policy positions.
The official said investigators had determined that the attacks originated from China, but cautioned that they had not ascertained whether they were government-sponsored, or just unaffiliated hackers."
Odd that the hackers felt they had to hack into the candidates' campaign information to get an idea of their policies - doesn't that suggest they candidates themselves weren't laying out enough info..?From CDT:
"Earlier this summer, the US Secret Service and FBI warned Barack... more
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SAN FRANCISCO: How much money can criminals make scaring naïve computer users? Try $5 million a year.
That is how much a marketing associate of one Russian operation appears to be earning from its sales of fake antivirus software through an elaborate scheme that relies on e-mail spam and indirectly controlling thousands of unprotected PCs, according to internal company files posted online by a Russian hacker.
The company is Bakasoftware, a clandestine effort based somewhere in Russia that markets what it claims is an antivirus program strictly to English-speaking computer users.
The program, whose name has recently been updated from Antivirus XP 2008 to Antivirus XP 2009, lodges itself on a victim's computer and then begins generating a series of pop-up messages warning that the user's computer is infected. If the user responds to the warnings, he is urged to buy a $49.95 program for disinfecting the machine.SAN FRANCISCO: How much money can criminals make scaring naïve computer users?... more
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