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Google has long maintained that by providing their search, hosted blogging, and email services to the people of China they were supporting access to information and community that would be a long term benefit. Last week we learned that engineers at Google have been engaging in their own form of cyber vigilantism by hacking into a command and control server in Taiwan…
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/01/17/google-engages-china-with-cyber-vigilantism/Google has long maintained that by providing their search, hosted blogging, and email... more
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Google Inc. said Tuesday it may leave China and its 350 million Internet users after the company was the target of a series of cyberattacks that originated from the Asian country.
According to a blog post from Google, a "highly sophisticated" December attack on its corporate infrastructure resulted in "the theft of intellectual property," and it suspects that at least 20 other companies had been targeted. The Internet search company said it believed that one goal of the attackers was to access the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Google also said it planned to end its practice of censoring search results in China. For years Google has acquiesced to Chinese officials' wishes by blocking access to information on politically sensitive topics such as the 1989 student uprising in Tienanmen Square.
The company said that over the next several weeks it would attempt to find a way to operate an uncensored search engine in China, if Chinese authorities approved.
If not, Google said it may have to pull the plug on its operations in China.
"We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China," said Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, in the blog post.
Google has long had a rocky relationship with China, where censorship and marketing limitations have held it to a distant second behind China's leading search engine, Baidu.com, which has more than 60% of the market.
The company said it was still investigating the breach and would not provide details on the nature of the intellectual property that was stolen.Google Inc. said Tuesday it may leave China and its 350 million Internet users after... more
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There is nothing distributed about this. It is possible with very low bandwidth and a single low-spec linux machine. I am still refining the tool, but if you check right now - www.alemarah.info is in fact temporarily down, until I decide to bring it back. The idea here is to target known sites and cause much trouble, but not be destructive and defacing. it’s a very surgical strike and causes no collateral or long-term damage…
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/01/07/patriot-hacker-hits-jihad-with-ddos-attacks/There is nothing distributed about this. It is possible with very low bandwidth and a... more
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Are CIOs spending less time on supervising what they should be doing the most—strengthening the citadel and securing the digital assets—particularly when corporate wide cyber crimes and espionage have started to show a quantum jump even in developing economies like India? Security may be a key thing that worries CIOs, but there are other things that keep him occupied these days.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/12/17/lest-we-forget-about-enterprise-security/Are CIOs spending less time on supervising what they should be doing the... more
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Every new form of war drives changes in technology. Conversely the technology causes the change in the methods and outcomes of wars. Effective cyber war is driven by the cyber equivalent of an arms race. The attacker discovers and devises new attack methodologies while the defender shores up his defenses by blocking ports, patching systems and deploying technology. There are eleven areas of development in offensive technology to be brought to bear on the problems of cyber war.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/12/15/technology-and-the-advent-of-cyber-war/Every new form of war drives changes in technology. Conversely the technology causes... more
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Just as markets do a better job of regulating good and bad business practices in rapidly evolving economies, the self interested protection of the security community may be the best response to the scourge of Internet pestilence. Viruses, worms, spam, spyware, and botnets have all changed the Internet and the way organizations use it for profit.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/22/surviving-cyber-war-a-primer-on-ddos/Just as markets do a better job of regulating good and bad business practices in... more
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There are four pillars to the cyber war realm: intelligence, technology, logistics, and command. By understanding these factors IT security practitioners can gauge the threat to their own organization from cyber war and perhaps take steps to prepare for either direct attacks or the fallout from an outbreak of cyber hostilities between nations.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/09/four-pillars-of-cyber-warfare-intelligence/There are four pillars to the cyber war realm: intelligence, technology, logistics,... more
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With the threat of aftershocks in the US Stock market, continued bank closings and takeovers by the FDIC, serious consideration needs to be given to changing the current reporting, auditing and oversight regulations, and the public needs to pressure elected officials into action before our entire country is taken off financial life support.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/03/top-five-financial-sector-security-threats/With the threat of aftershocks in the US Stock market, continued bank closings and... more
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This is the first cogent look at the efficacy of waging strategic cyber war and I hope will serve to slow the rhetoric coming from the US Defense community about acquiring cyber offensive capability: “Can cyberattacks disarm cyberattackers? In a world of cheap computing, ubiquitous networking, and hackers who could be anywhere, the answer is no.”
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/10/31/debunking-cyber-deterrence-as-a-strategy/This is the first cogent look at the efficacy of waging strategic cyber war and I hope... more
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Oops, I just argued from scenario. Pundits often extrapolate from the current state of vulnerability of systems to predictions of massive power outages, financial collapse, and loss of command and control are falling into the scenario syllogism trap. Posing scenarios to support your anti-cyber war position can be just as dangerous…
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/10/28/security-scenarios-are-syllogistic-fallacy/Oops, I just argued from scenario. Pundits often extrapolate from the current state of... more
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Enterprise applications choke the corporate IT networks, and the blame invariably falls on bandwidth scarcity. Jeff Barker, VP solutions and Technical Marketing at Blue Coat Systems, talks exclusively to Rahul Neel Mani about application optimization and secured delivery.Enterprise applications choke the corporate IT networks, and the blame invariably... more
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As part of their storage security strategy, enterprises must understand the value of such intellectual property in combination with the risk tolerance of the organization before they can address how to appropriately secure it and store it. Moreover, because the value of information changes over its lifetime, so should its storage.As part of their storage security strategy, enterprises must understand the value of... more
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Today, most of our contracts are jurisdiction-based and mostly relate to the location of data. With cloud computing, this is something which can’t be defined. Until laws evolve to accommodate these technological issues in contractual terms, large corporations will find it difficult to migrate quickly to clouds.Today, most of our contracts are jurisdiction-based and mostly relate to the location... more
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Web 2.0 evangelist Stowe Boyd shares his views on the myths, realities and future of web 2.0 and enterprise: Crowd sourcing innovation - drawing on the smarts distributed across the company and outside in the user community - is another big bang that companies need to be exploring.Web 2.0 evangelist Stowe Boyd shares his views on the myths, realities and future of... more
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Is the best way to counter the rise of bike gangs in Canada for the government to create a rival bike gang? No. Is the best way to counter Somali pirates to develop piratical abilities? No. Is the best way to fight biologic weapons to develop more virulent pathogens? No.
Federal Agencies and the Defense Department have inadequate cyber defenses, but the course of action should be to beef those defenses up, not to resort to cyber attacks as some sort of deterrent. The best way to counter cyber attacks is with cyber defense.Is the best way to counter the rise of bike gangs in Canada for the government to... more
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