Category: Cyber Crime

Cyber Security Development Panel Discussion Addressing Vulnerability of the U.S. Infrastructure.

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October 23, 2012

Why is this man worried?
As Leon E. Panetta has warned America!

Vulnerability of the U.S. infrastructure, the lack of effective policy to mitigate this threat, and the need for an open public debate on the threat and solutions. Commander, U.S. Cyber Command GEN Keith Alexander, Senator Susan Collins, and ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero attend the discussion.

ASF2011: Cyber Security
Bloomberg’s Allan Holmes moderates a conversation with former CIA Director Gen. Michael V. Hayden, Dell SecureWorks’ Jon Ramsey, and AGT International’s Mati Kochavi

Why Is 100+ Billion Bytes per Second So Powerful?

Mounting Fears of ‘Cyber-Pearl-Harbor’, Escalating Attacks on Banks
By: DK_Matai
Quote Source: marketoracle.co.uk

“There is no denying that the latest round of Distributed Denial of Service — DDoS — digital attacks are extremely powerful and unprecedented at 100+ billion bytes or 100+ Giga bytes per second. The leading DDoS prevention software more or less stops working when the digital attacks get larger than 60-70 Gigabytes per second and simply can’t handle the bandwidth of these 100+ Gigabyte per second attacks.”

“This is an unprecedented escalation because the commercial servers that have been deployed in carrying out the digital attacks have not previously been utilised on such a large scale to deliver 100+ Gigabytes per second attacks.”

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Prediction: Iran and Middle East Attacked by “Flame” a Massive Computer Virus for Cyber-espionage Purposes Blogs Kaspersky’s Alexander Gostev

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May 28, 2012

Researchers say they have uncovered “proof” linking the authors of the Flame cyber espionage program to Stuxnet (Source: ABCNews)

The Flame Virus maybe the most powerful and complex cyber-attack ever discovered, described by one expert, as “an industrial vacuum cleaner for sensitive information.” Flame most likely a state sponsored computer virus has probably been active for as long as five years, as part of a sophisticated cyber warfare campaign, the experts said, grabbing images of users’ computer screens, recording their instant messaging chats, remotely turning on their microphones to record their audio conversations and monitoring their keystrokes and network traffic (Source: NYTimes).

Someone has been watching and listening as “Flame” spreads.

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Once deployed, Flame (Worm.Win32.Flame) can sniff network traffic, take screenshots, record audio conversations, intercept a keyboard, and more, Kaspersky said. All of this data is then available via Flame’s command-and-control servers. “The practice of concealment through large amounts of code is one of the specific new features in Flame.”

Iran has thus far been hardest hit by Flame, with at least 189 infections. Israel/Palestine came in second with 98, followed by Sudan (32), Syria (30), Lebanon (18), Saudi Arabia (10), and Egypt (5).

‘Flame’ computer virus: most ‘complex’ threat ever

Gostev explained in a SecureList posting:

“Currently there are three known classes of players who develop malware and spyware: hacktivists, cybercriminals and nation states. Flame is not designed to steal money from bank accounts. It is also different from rather simple hack tools and malware used by the hacktivists,” “By excluding cybercriminals and hacktivists, we come to conclusion that it most likely belongs to the third group. In addition, the geography of the targets (certain states are in the Middle East) and also the complexity of the threat leaves no doubt about it being a nation state that sponsored the research that went into it.”

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Future of Cybercrime: Three Types of Online Attacks are Explained by Expert Mikko Hypponen

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January 31, 2012

Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data — and only two are considered crimes.

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NEW DELHI: In almost the last three years, 117 government websites have been hacked by various groups, parliament was informed on Wednesday. “As per the information tracked and reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team a total of 90,119,252 and 117 government websites were hacked in the year 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (till June) by various hacker groups,” Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora said.

BIO: Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer for F-Secure. He has worked with F-Secure in Finland since 1991. Mr. Hypponen, born in 1969, was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine. He also received the Virus Bulletin Award, awarded every ten years, as “Best in industry”.

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Future Predictions: Cyber War First Strike Capabilities

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December 21, 2011

PENTAGON CONTEMPLATES CYBER WAR OFFENSE FIRST STRIKE

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, held its first-ever symposium to discuss how the U.S. military can better protect itself from foreign-backed hackers. DARPA’s director, Regina Dugan, told conference members the agency will work to develop offensive cyber capabilities.

Hostile governments can now cripple power grids, water supplies, even nuclear facilities without firing a single shot. Creating a national catastrophe has never been easier. And the new weapon of choice for the world’s terrorists is the humble laptop.
[Via: Forbes.com]

SO WHAT IS THE PENTAGON DOING ABOUT IT, THIS REPORT EXPLORES?

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Future Predictions: US Investigates Chinese Telecom Firms over Security Concerns as China Seeks Widening Campaign of Cyberespionage

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December 12, 2011

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“US intelligence officials are investigating the presence of Chinese telecom firms in the country. It marks growing concern in the United States that the Chinese regime is carrying out cyber espionage through major Chinese firms.

US lawmakers are looking into the expansion of Chinese telecom firms. The House Intelligence Committee last week announced it will investigate if two major companies, Huawei and ZTE Corporation, pose a security threat to the United States through telecommunications infrastructures.

Huawei is China’s largest provider of telecom equipment, and has aggressively expanded overseas in recent years. Its operations in the United States have faced opposition from those concerned about its possible ties to the Chinese regime’s military. Huawei’s founder was an engineer in the army, but the private company says he left 25 years ago, and has no links with the Chinese regime.

Former Chinese intelligence officer Li Fengzhi says this does not rule out Huawei and other Chinese firms from engaging in intelligence work in the United States.

[Li Fengzhi, Former Chinese Intelligence Officer]:
“They will register a company in the target country, like the US by a private individual, or a branch of a large private enterprise, or something with government backing. They can then place intelligence workers here who look for opportunities to obtain important or sometimes trivial intelligence, including military intelligence.”

Earlier this month, US intelligence officials accused the Chinese regime of being the biggest perpetrator of economic espionage. Representative Mike Rogers, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, echoed those claims last week. His committee launched an investigation to find out whether Chinese telecom firms in the US give the Chinese regime “an opportunity for greater foreign espionage.”

The Chinese regime denies being involved in cyber espionage, and says the US is politicizing trade issues. Both Huawei and ZTE Corporation, China’s second-largest mobile-equipment maker, maintain they pose no security threat to the United State”

[Via: http://english.ntdtv.com]