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NSA Launching "Perfect Citizen" Surveillance Program to Monitor Private...
Old School Infrastructure A lot of America's critical infrastructure, like the control rooms at nuclear plants or the technology that governs power grids (this control panel is from a '70s-era nuclear...
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An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet
The Keys to the Internet Each smart card contains a portions of the DNSSEC root key, which would be necessary to reboot the Internet as we know it if connections were severed to stem a cyber attack....
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Pentagon: 2008 Cyber Breach, Considered the Biggest Ever, Was Caused By a...
Flash Drives Beware. Andrezadnik via WikimediaIn the first on-the-record, official recognition that a foreign intelligence agency infiltrated sensitive U.S. military CentCom networks in 2008, Deputy...
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Pentagon Declares That Cyber-Attacks Can Constitute an Act of War, Deserving...
The U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command The U.S. military and intelligence arms are already defending the nation from cyber attacks. DARPA hopes to give them another tool. On the heels of a...
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RSA Security Offers to Replace Nearly All of its Security Fobs After Lockheed...
RSA SecurIDs br1dotcom via FlickrYet another wrinkle in the ongoing flood of cyber security stories emerging over the past couple of weeks: RSA Security--maker of those little keychain tokens that...
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Red Team Go! It's NATO's Turn to Build a Cyber Defense Force
NATO HQ USAF Hacks, cyber strategies, international cyber squads--we could just go ahead and dub this the "summer of cyber," and it's not even mid-June. On the heels of some high-profile hacks...
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Richard Clarke: China is Planting Digital Bombs Throughout the U.S. Power Grid
The U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command The U.S. military and intelligence arms are already defending the nation from cyber attacks. DARPA hopes to give them another tool. The cyber-security...
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Biggest Hack in History: U.N. and 70 More Organizations and States Attacked...
Hacked: Someone's Been Cyber Snooping on the UN Javier Carbajal via WikimediaThe biggest hack ever discovered has been exposed by McAfee, and the breadth and depth would be impressive it wasn't so...
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DOT Mapping Out a Plan to Protect Cars From Cyber-Attacks
Connected Vehicles via Layer 8The latest perceived target for cyber criminals: the automobile. The DOT has a vision for a networked automotive future in which cars speak to each other and to roadway...
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Operation Ghost Click, the Biggest Cyber-Bust Ever, Shuts Down Estonian Bot Ring
Operation Ghost Click History's largest cyber takedown. john_a_ward via FlickrIn an international cyber sting that is being called the biggest cyber criminal takedown in history, the FBI has arrested...
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The U.S. Air Force is Officially Seeking Cyber Weapons
USAF Electronic Warfare Simulation USAF Look, we all know the Pentagon is seeking cyber weapons. For defensive purposes only, of course, not for playing dirty cyber tricks on enemies of the state...
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Why Obama's Executive Order On Cyberdefense Is So Important
Learning Cyberwar Wikimedia Commons In his State of the Union Address last night, Obama highlighted the need for better America cyber defense:Earlier today, I signed a new executive order that will...
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A 12-Story Hacker Headquarters In Shanghai Is The Future Of Espionage
Shanghai skyline at night It is believed that China's Unit 61398 is based in Shanghai. Wikimedia Commons This morning, private cybersecurity firm Mandiant released a report tying 141 computer attacks...
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This Company Dares You To Crack Its Encryption Software
A Bank Vault in France Reynaud d'Avaut, via Wikimedia commons Virtual Adventures has developed a new form of encryption, and to prove its strength, the company is letting anyone try to crack...
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Chinese Hackers Steal Plans To Dozens Of U.S. Weapons Systems
One of NASA's Global Hawk recon drones NASA Dryden Chinese hackers have compromised designs for more than two dozen U.S. military weapons and technology programs, according to the confidential section...
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Hacks, cyber strategies, international cyber squads--we could just go ahead and dub this the "summer of cyber," and it's not even mid-June. On the heels of some high-profile…
View ArticleRichard Clarke: China is Planting Digital Bombs Throughout the U.S. Power Grid
The cyber-security cat is slowly slinking out of the bag, it seems. It's been a big month in cybersecurity news, ranging from some high-profile hacks at companies like Lockheed (home to sensitive...
View ArticleBiggest Hack in History: U.N. and 70 More Organizations and States Attacked...
The biggest hack ever discovered has been exposed by McAfee, and the breadth and depth would be impressive it wasn't so disconcerting: five years, at least 72 different…
View ArticleDOT Mapping Out a Plan to Protect Cars From Cyber-Attacks
The latest perceived target for cyber criminals: the automobile. The DOT has a vision for a networked automotive future in which cars speak to each other and to roadway…
View ArticleOperation Ghost Click, the Biggest Cyber-Bust Ever, Shuts Down Estonian Bot Ring
In an international cyber sting that is being called the biggest cyber criminal takedown in history, the FBI has arrested six Estonians accused of running a botnet that…
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