Don’t be too hasty to link every Poison Ivy-based cyber attack to China. The popular remote access tool (RAT), which we recently detailed on this blog, is being used in a broad campaign of attacks launched from the Middle East, too.
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Google, Iran’s nuclear enrichment plant, the government of Pakistan, the US department of defense… many of the largest enterprises and governments have been victims of Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) during the last two years.
Your status updates and tweets could be revealing more than you think
It’s come to light that the NSA has impersonated Google—and possibly other big websites—in order to intercept, store, and read supposedly secure online communications.
A JOB combating threats from cyberspace could be the ultimate prize for the winners of an online challenge posed by GCHQ to recruit the most skilled mathematicians, code breakers and ethical hackers in the UK.
With yesterday’s announcement by Apple of the new iPhone 5S, featuring Touch ID, their embedded fingerprint sensor, we are seeing an important change in the modern authentication landscape.
Last month’s cyber security report by Kent University offered a startling insight into the challenges faced in combating escalating cyber threats.
As more details surface on the lengths the National Security Agency (NSA) has gone in the professed name of stopping terrorist threats, the incidents only reinforce the need to embrace a stronger standard for encryption, security experts share.
I’ve been quiet of late — mostly because our Lawfare readership is so self-evidently (and, I might add, appropriately) engaged in questions of greater immediacy relating to the coming debate over Syrian intervention.
There are several dates throughout the year that are notorious for wreaking havoc on businesses via DDoS attacks, data breaches and even malware or botnet assaults.