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Cyber War Visualized
The signs of the infopocolypse. Actually, this is a pretty nice visualization of recent information warfare skirmishes/attacks. Any visualizations that combine this with timing?
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InfoWar: From Bullets to Megabytes
the Stuxnet attack highlights the ambiguous boundaries of sovereignty in cyberspace. Promoting national security in the information age will, from time to time, cause unpredictable offense to the rights and interests of innocent people, companies and countries.
Stuxnet attacked the Iranian nuclear program, but it did so by maliciously manipulating commercial software products sold globally by major Western companies. Whoever launched the assault also infected thousands of computers in several countries, including Australia, Britain, Indonesia and the United States.
This kind of collateral damage to the global civilian realm is going to be the norm, not the exception, and advanced economies, which are more dependent on advanced information systems, will be at particular risk.
What’s more, offensive and defensive information warfare are tightly, insidiously coupled, which will significantly complicate military-industrial relations.
» via The New York Times
My question is, “at what point do we or will we arrive back at the concept of mutually assured destruction with information warfare weaponry.” Oh yeah, I’m totally coining the the term InfoWeapon too.
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Charlie Miller wins Pwn2Own again with iPhone 4 exploit | ZDNet
For all my friends, subscribers, and random strangers that come across UbChant.
Maybe think twice before checking on your life savings via the Safari browser on you iPhone.
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How To: Wipe your old iPad/iPhone/iPod touch ready for resale | ZDNet
Hey now, lets be careful out there.
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I heard a news story on CBC in Canada about the outbreak of patient infections in hospitals in the Niagara Falls area; “Much of the infection problem could be halted if health care workers would wash their hands”.
Most of the major hacking successes reported in the news aren’t examples of wicked skill, they typically result from poor information security hygiene.
- Use a decent password.
- Don’t use that decent password on every account you own.
- Swap it up every now an then.
- Apply the same concepts to the answers to you password reset security questions.
Computer systems are like buildings, if someone bangs on it hard enough and long enough, they can eventually get in. Make them work for it, don’t leave the house key under the mat.
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Hacked in 60 Seconds: Thieves Could Steal Cars via Text Messages
iSEC researchers Don Bailey and Mat Solnik claim to be able to hack their way into a securely locked car because its alarm relies on a cell phone or satellite network that can receive commands via text messaging. Devices connecting via a cellular or satellite network are assigned the equivalent of a phone number or Web address. If hackers can figure out the number or address for a particular car, they could use a PC to send commands via text messages that instruct the car to disarm, unlock and start.
One of the reasons this text-messaging approach is disconcerting is that text messages aren’t so easy to block, unless you don’t want to receive any texts (either to your car or phone). Google Voice, iBlacklist and a few others (including wireless carriers AT&T and Verizon) do offer some tools for filtering unwanted text messages.
» via Scientific American
Second bit that I’ve seen about this little issue. Since I heard about the demonstration at DEFCON, I chuckle a little every time I see the commercials for cars with remote access apps.
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Lenny Zeltser on Information Security: 5 Favorite Security Reads of the Week
Here’s a listing of my 5 favorite on-line security articles, papers and blog posts that I read in the past week:
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Lenny Zeltser on Information Security: Twitter Social Networking Among Information Security People
Having used Twitter for a couple of years, I can say that its role as social networking medium for members of the information security community has been steadily growing. The value Twitter offers infosec people in three-fold: it helps keep up with interesting security-related content; it…
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Lenny Zeltser on Information Security: 5 Favorite Security Reads of the Week
Here’s a listing of my 5 favorite on-line security articles, papers and blog posts that I read in the past week:
- How Kaspersky Lab Disabled the Hlux/Kelihos Botnet by Tillmann Werner
- How Two Scammers Built an Empire Hawking Sketchy Software by Benjamin Wallace
- Enterprise Anti-forensics…
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took a trip to Las Vegas with my dad almost 10 years ago… cleaning house this weekend we uncovered...
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The last drink in this whole hell hole
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A.I. By Irkis (Image since deleted from DA)
