Tag: cyber attack
European Smart Power Grid Targeted By Cyber Attack
Arthur Neslen EurActiv.com A German power utility specialising in renewable energy was hit by a serious cyber attack two weeks ago that lasted five days, knocking its internet communications systems offline, in the first confirmed digital assault against a European grid operator. “It was a DOS (‘Denial Of Service’) attack with a botnet behind [...]
Meet A Cyber Spec Ops Warrior: th3j35t3r
Laura Walker SOFREP The Jester is a lone-wolf patriot hacker who has been successfully waging a campaign of asymmetrical offensive cyber warfare in support of the United States for two and a half years. Among his known targeted attacks are numerous takedowns of jihadi recruiting websites, Wikileaks, the Westboro Baptist Church, (dragging 20 sites of theirs down [...]
Secret Document Warns of Cyber Attack on Canada
Andrew Mayeda and Hugo Miller Bloomberg News A cyber attack on Canada may be on the horizon. Cyber attacks pose a greater risk to Canada’s economic prosperity than the government previously believed and the country lacks the tools to fight hackers, officials warn in internal documents obtained by Bloomberg News. “All new knowledge obtained [...]
Hackers Have Backdoor Access US Weapons Systems Via Microchip
Mark Clayton Christian Science Monitor A secret nanoscale “backdoor” etched into the silicon of a supposedly secure programmable chip could give cyberattackers access to classified US weapons systems, including guidance, flight control, networking, and communications systems, according to a new report by cybersecurity researchers in Britain. The Cambridge University study is apparently the first public documentation [...]
End Of The World As We Know It – Cyber Terror Apocalypse Coming
BeforeItsNews.com After his eponymously-named lab discovered Flame, “the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed,” Eugene Kaspersky believes that the evolving threat of “cyber terrorism” could spell the end of life on Earth as we know it. Doomsday scenarios are a common occurrence in 2012, but coming from a steely-eyed realist like Eugene Kaspersky, his [...]
FEMA Sponsored Cyber Attack Simulation on Critical U.S. Infrastructure
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer President Barack Obama and several senior U.S. officials participated in a FEMA sponsored cyber attack simulation on Tuesday. The simulation focused on how the U.S. government would react to cyber warfare targeting the country’s critical infrastructure. The exercise was designed in part to help pinpoint weaknesses in official policies and procedures following [...]
US Government Used Stuxnet Worm To Target Iranian Nuclear Systems
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer Stuxnet worm was discovered in June 2010. It initially spreads via Microsoft Windows, and targets Siemens industrial software and equipment. While it is not the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems, it is the first discovered malware that spies on and subverts industrial systems, and the [...]
Hackers Bring Down ‘Britain’s FBI’ with Cyber Attack
Rick Dewsbury MailOnline The Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website was temporarily shut down today after a cyber attack. It was the victim of a scam known as distributed denial of service (DDOS) whereby an internet address is flooded with bogus traffic, effectively making it unreachable. The actions can also jam other websites hosted by [...]
Could ‘Bullet Time’ Stop a Cyberattack?
Taylor Armerding ITWorld Is a cyberattack by Iran against the U.S. a realistic threat? And if so, could it be defeated by a technique called “bullet time,” that slows Internet traffic just enough to give critical infrastructure defense systems time to respond? There is considerable disagreement over that, with some experts saying both that [...]
DoD Using Cyber Teams Like Aircraft – For Offense and Defense
Jason Miller FederalNewsRadio The Defense Department for the first time is using cyber teams like they use aircraft — to attack and to defend. Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, said in a letter to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that DoD is employing cyber teams to execute [...]
Operation Defense Phase II Response To CISPA
Zach Walton WebProNews I told a friend last night that it wouldn’t be long before Anonymous reacted to the news of CISPA passing the House. I was right with Anonymous uploading a new video today that announces Operation Defense Phase II. If you weren’t around for the first phase of Operation Defense, it was a [...]
Cyber War Heats Up as Taliban Webite is Hacked
Al Arabiya News Reuters – Kabul Hackers have for the third time in less than a year crippled the main website of the Afghan Taliban, with a Taliban spokesman on Friday blaming Western intelligence agencies amid an intensifying cyber war with the insurgents. The unidentified hackers broke into the Taliban’s El Emara website twice on [...]
US Government Expects Major Cyber Attack
Pam Benson CNN – Security Clearance The United States will soon suffer a catastrophic cyberattack if it doesn’t act now to prevent it, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee warned Thursday. “The clock is ticking and winding down,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, said at a hearing on the security threats facing the United [...]
Cyber Attack: What Will Happen To The Individual?
Olivia Johnson Cyber Attacks So far, my blogs have manly concerned international cyber threats; however, nationally citizens all over the world should also be worried about government or private attacks on personal networks and data. This problem is already occurring openly in the Middle East and North Africa. During the recent uprisings, pro-government groups [...]
