Istanbul (CNN) -- A familiar digital chime rang on the computer. Someone was calling via Skype from Syria.
It was a law student and opposition activist from the city of Homs who uses the pseudonym Musaab al Hussaini to protect himself from arrest. He had fresh reports that security forces were shooting guns wildly in the neighborhood Baba
Hussaini was calling via Psiphon, an online encryption system he had just installed that morning. He said it protected him from detection by the Syrian security services, also known as mukhabarat.
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28 November 2011
26 September 2011
FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers | #cybercrime #infosec
The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix and secured charges against a third suspect from Ohio, the Justice Department confirmed Thursday.
Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana, an FBI official told FoxNews.com, which first reported the arrests.
Read full article: http://bit.ly/rhIX3Z21 September 2011
Comodo hacker claims more CA breaches | #diginotar #verisign #ssl
In an interview with ZDNet Australia, the 21-year-old Iranian hacker, who goes by the alias "Sun Ich", said that he currently has access to three more CAs, and would continue to focus his efforts solely on CAs rather than any other targets. He wouldn't disclose which CAs he had tapped into.
DigiNotar files for bankruptcy | #ssl #comodohacker #ca
Disgraced digital certificate firm DigiNotar has filed for bankruptcy in The Netherlands.
Hackers broke into DigiNotar's systems in June before creating forged digital certificates in the names of Google and other high-profile targets. The forged Google.com SSL credentials were used to spy on 300,000 Iranian internet users, according to a subsequent analysis of authentication lookup logs on DigiNotar's systems. Comodohacker, the boastful Iranian black hat who had claimed credit for an earlier attack on digital certificate firm Comodo, also claimed credit for the DigiNotar hack.
Read full article: http://bit.ly/mUDJNp20 September 2011
7 Lessons: Surviving A Zero-Day Attack | #pnnl #iw500 #apt
When Pacific Northwest National Laboratory detected a cyber attack--actually two of them--against its tech infrastructure in July, the lab acted quickly to root out the exploits and secure its network. PNNL then did something few other cyber attack victims have been willing to do. It decided to talk openly about what happened.
Cyber attacks coincide with 80th anniversary of Manchurian Incident | #china #Japan #cyberwar
The wave of cyber attacks targeting the Japanese government and Japanese companies come in the wake of the 80th anniversary of the Manchurian Incident, which triggered the full-scale Japanese invasion of China.
On Sept 18 1931, a small amount of dynamite was used to damage a stretch of the railroad operated by Japan's South Manchuria Railway close to the town of Mukden, which is now known as Shenyang.
Read full article: http://bit.ly/pTdJOiJapan tells arms supplier to probe cyber attack | #Mitsubishi #china #cyberwar
Japan told its biggest weapons supplier, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, to investigate a cyber attack on its computers on Tuesday, warning it may have breached contracts to supply billions of dollars of equipment by keeping quiet about the online assault.
Under the terms of an agreement the government imposes on all contractors, companies are obliged to inform it promptly of any breach of sensitive or classified information, a defense official said. Defense officials learnt of the August attack from local press reports Monday.
Read full article: http://bit.ly/o5BIacFormer Anonymous Members Writing a Book About Anonymous | #hackers #cyberwar
Two prominent Anonymous associates are shopping around a book detailing the exploits of the hacktivist group from the inside, according to the Observer. But will anyone want to read it?
One co-author, Barrett Brown (above, in a still from an interview with NBC News), is an ex-heroin junkie from Dallas, Texas. He was an Anonymous spokesman until quitting over the direction the group was taking. The other author, Gregg Housh, is from Boston and became a de facto Anonymous spokesman because he appeared in a few news articles during Anonymous' anti-Scientology protests and journalists kept on calling him for comments.
Read full article: http://bit.ly/pp1o8OA Web-Fomented Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off | #anonymous #occupywallstreet #groundzero
Even by participants' own estimates, the ongoing OccupyWallStreet demonstration in New York City hasn't been very big--between 500 and 700 protestors near the famous bronze bull statue at its peak on Saturday afternoon attended, and perhaps 200 slept over in a park near Ground Zero on Saturday and Sunday nights.
But this small action against bank bailouts, public spending cuts, and money in politics has drawn an outsized presence in the tech and media world. Highlights include high Twitter hashtag rankings, realtime crowd-sourced mapping, SEO optimization, and the possible involvement of WikiLeaks and hacker collective Anonymous.
Read full article: http://bit.ly/pqyGWXWall Street Protests Continue, With at Least 6 Arrested | #occupywallstreet #CNN #wallstreet
In a continuation of the demonstrations that began on Saturday, nearly 200 protesters marched along Wall Street and other parts of the financial district Monday morning, brandishing American flags and signs denouncing the economic system. At least six of them were arrested.
Office workers heading to their desks passed the protesters on the sidewalks with little incident. At times, the two groups squeezed shoulder to shoulder through narrow passages formed by metal police barricades.
The first three arrests came on Pine Street, when a police lieutenant ordered that two men wearing ski masks be taken into custody. Officers then arrested a woman wearing a plastic mask on the back of her head.
Read full article: http://bit.ly/q8S3SJ11 Things You Can Do to Support the Protesters | #occupywallstreet #NYC #banksters
These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99% percent of us. Those who are unemployed, uninsured, under employed and totally insecure in the face of ever increasing social and financial inequities. They are standing up for those who cannot be there right now.
One in three PC users doesn't update their security software | #antivirus #AVG #cybercrime
One in three UK PC users doesn't update their security software, says AVG.
A report compiled on behalf of the security firm byThe Future Laboratory revealed those aged 18 to 34 are the most reckless age group when it comes to updating their security software, despite growing up with an awareness of digital threats. AVG believes if they continue to behave like this there's a chance that in the future a cybercrime disaster that affects not just personal users but also businesses and governments could occur.
Read full article: http://bit.ly/osWsCXUS hawks hit Barack Obama on $4.2bn Taiwan deal | #F16 #china #DoD
The US sale of weapons to Taiwan is the biggest issue of conflict between the superpower and China, and has grown in significance as the Asian giant has pushed ahead with its military modernisation.
US officials began briefings about the deal in Washington on Saturday, and reports emerged that the sale would include fresh parts for Taiwan's F-16 warplanes - two of which crashed last week - but no new planes
Read full article: http://bit.ly/oXYt7DDrones could provide updated intelligence on North Korean missile sites | #uav #china #dmz
The U.S. is negotiating with South Korea to fly the RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone near the Demilitarized Zone, a move that could provide an unprecedented view of goings-on in reclusive North Korea and draw the ire of China.
19 September 2011
Comodo hacker claims more CA breaches | #diginotar #SSL #Iran
In his last statement via the ComodoHacker Pastebin account, he had said that he wasaiming to compromise three other CAs, but did not divulge whether he had them under control yet. CAs are responsible for authorising the digital certificates that determine which websites browsers can trust.
The Cool Maneuvers and Battle On the Net | #cyberwar #cybercrime #infosec
We are living in the age of the Cool Maneuvers, a period of intense and sustained virtual struggle on the Internet. But unlike the Cold War which was animated by fear of nuclear annihilation, the Cool Maneuvers cannot be attributed to any one event or factor. Broadly speaking the information revolution has restructured society, challenged centrally managed institutions, and empowered individuals. On the Internet anyone can become powerful, and many are attempting to become so.
中国黑客发誓要结束网络犯罪 |#honkers #china #COG
COG 黑客自律公约》参考了联合国大会2002 年的第57／239 号决议“创造全球网络安全文化”和2004 年的第58／199 号决议“创造全球网络安全文化及保护重要的信息基础设施”以及社会业界对黑客精神等方面的解释与研究。《COG 黑客自律公约》不是法律，若有不符合现行法律的，以现行法律为准。
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Chinese hackers pledge to reject cybercrime | #china #GongWei #WanTao
Two prominent Chinese hackers have released a convention calling for the rejection of cybercrime and are asking their peers to support it, as China is increasingly seen as the source of international hacking attacks and cybertheft.
The two hackers, Gong Wei and Wan Tao, released their "Hackers' Self-Discipline Convention" to the Chinese media and posted its contents on the internet. The hackers declined to offer further comment, but the document presents itself as a moral code that outlines appropriate hacking activities and eschews cybercrime.
Read full article: http://bit.ly/oUT8OdExtreme risks from new cybercrime threats | #AVG #wetware #antivirus
The weakest link in the security chain when confronting cyberthreats, including cybercrime attacks, is human action, otherwise known as 'wetware' in security industry jargon. And, we are warned, the world maybe looking down the barrel at a cybercrime disaster affecting not only personal users but businesses and governments
Wall Street May Be Blocked Off Again as Police Monitor Protests | #occupywallstreet #anonymous #NYC
New York City police may limit access to Wall Street for a third day, requiring workers and residents to show identification, after a weekend of protests targeting financial firms.
The arrangements, including the identification requirement, "will be re-assessed" this morning, Paul Browne, a police spokesman, said in an e-mail.
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