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Cyberwar comes of age: Blogger to the rescue?
2008-08-18 06:35:00 The LATimes noticed that someone took the websites of the government of Georgia off line Analysts say the online attacks, which appear to have begun well before Russian tanks rolled in, resembled the work of garden-variety cyber pranksters. Georgian government websites were overwhelmed with swarms of data, and some were defaced by hackers. There was no ...
Pentagon official: China may already be at cyberwar with U.S.
2008-03-13 19:49:00 China?s growing cyberwarfare capabilities are an emerging threat already being felt by the U.S., a senior Pentagon official said. David Sedney, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, said ?there continue to be around the world, not just in the United States but around the world, many, many computer intrusions that are sourced back to ...
By: 1913 Intel
Chinese Cyberattacks Target US Think Tanks
2008-03-07 04:14:00 Defense-related think tanks and contractors, as well as the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, were the target of repeated computer network intrusions last year apparently originating in China, the Department of Defense said this week. In its annual report to lawmakers on China’s military power, the department said the intrusions “appeared to originate in” China ...
By: 1913 Intel
We Traced the Cyberwar ? It?s Coming From Inside the Country!
2008-01-25 07:36:00 A 20-year-old man named Dmitri Galushkevich is the first cyber solider to face justice for launching one of the attacks in last year’s “cyber war” against Estonia, AFP reports. … And so it comes as quite a shock to THREAT LEVEL to learn that the attacker convicted today isn’t a member of the Russian military, nor ...
By: 1913 Intel
Intel Brief: Chinese cyberwarfare
2008-01-14 14:54:00 Governments are likely to become targets of increasingly sophisticated Chinese cyber warfare attacks over the next three to five years as the PLA assembles an advanced cybermilitia. A Chinese hacker community, referring to itself as “Honker Union,” declared war on US government and business websites in 2001. The group claimed responsibility for attacks against the US ...
By: 1913 Intel
Israel used cyberwar against Syria
2007-12-15 01:13:00 WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) — The Israeli military used cyberwar techniques to help blind Syrian air defenses prior to its strike on an alleged nuclear facility at Dayr az-Zawr. The magazine Aviation Week recently reported that the main attack by the Israeli Defense Forces was preceded by an engagement with a single Syrian radar site ...
Report: Israel used cyberwar against Syria
2007-12-14 06:04:00 The Israeli military used cyberwar techniques to help blind Syrian air defenses prior to its strike on an alleged nuclear facility at Dayr az-Zawr. The magazine Aviation Week recently reported that the main attack by the Israeli Defense Forces was preceded by an engagement with a single Syrian radar site at Tall al-Abuad near the Turkish ...
By: 1913 Intel
Cyberwarfare Threatens Operational Capability
2007-11-29 18:53:00 Realtime Messaging and Web Security – In the TimesOnlines UK headed for cyber cold war we get some sobering insight into the threats of cyberwarfare. For example: On Tuesday, Andrew Palowitch, a senior adviser to the Pentagon, said that military officials had conceded that attacks had reduced the US military?s operational capability ... read more
U.S. panel urges vigilance on China spying, cyberwar
2007-11-16 10:47:00 Chinese espionage poses1 Vote(s)
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Cyberwars: The Swedes strike back
2007-10-17 03:48:00 After an obscure Swedish paper had a cartoon of Mohammed, Turkish hackers took down 5000 plus Swedish websites in revenge. Stefan Grinneby, head of the Swedish communication watchdog’s Internet incident center Sitic, said attacks against Swedish Web sites from Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country, have increased in the past three weeks. Some contained messages alluding to ...
StormWorm: the stealth cyberwar is upon us
2007-10-08 13:38:00 Since I run Ubuntu after a worm ate my Windows and Microsoft wouldn’t let me reinstall my OS without a disc, I’m probably safe, but for the rest of you guys, the growing threat is Stormworm. It’s a worm/Trojan that enters your computer via an innocent looking email, and then sits there…only some computers will send ...
Is the U.S. at Risk From Cyberwarfare?
2007-09-22 04:07:00 Actual PC Problems with Solutions – May was not a good month for geeks in Estonia.The tiny Baltic republic weathered a month-long cyberattack that shuttered Internet servers nationwide. At the height of the crisis, people who wanted to use payment cards to buy bread or gas had to wait, as the onslaught crippled Estonia’s banks. Investigators traced the attack to Russians angered by Estonia’s decision to relocate the statue of a Red Army soldier erected during the Soviet era. Tensions over the incident led to rumors ... read more
The secret cyberwars
2007-09-14 06:44:00 One part of the “War on Terror” that is hidden in plain sight is the jihadi cyberwar. Want to see Daniel Pearl beheaded? It’s on the net. Heck, the Abu Sayyaf group, who a month ago beheaded seven innocent road workers here in the Philippines, got their recruiting video on You Tube. Want to learn about ...
The First Cyberwar? Groundzero: Estonia
2007-06-02 10:32:00 The attackers used a giant network of bots, perhaps as many as 1 million computers in places as far away as the U.S. and Vietnam ? to amplify the impact of their assault. In a sign of their financial resources, there is evidence that they rented time on other so-called botnets. The 10 largest assaults blasted streams of 90 Mbit/s for 10 hours eachread more | digg storyFor more logon to http://tipzntrikz.blogspot.com-
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