Predicting the Great #CyberWar

In 1998, John Arquilla, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School,
tried to envision it in a piece for Wired Magazine, The Great Cyberwar
of 2002, in which a loose coalition of rogue states, terrorist groups
and drug cartels team up to prod the United States into a war with
China and Russia by knocking out power grids, blowing up chemical
plants and causing airliners to collide in midair.

http://allthingsd.com/20110716/cyberwar-its-not-fiction-anymore/?mod=tweet

#China military deploys first communications #UAV during naval exercise

...During its mission it disrupted communications, while also acting
as a node for a Chinese military communications network, relaying
"large numbers of information packets" among Chinese forces. When an
'enemy' aircraft approached, the ground control station initiated a
"counter-surveillance deployment plan", and by reducing its altitude
and initiating radio silence the Silver Eagle evaded detection..

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/07/12/359324/china-deploys-communications-uav-in-naval-exercise.html

#Anonymous Working On #AnonPlus: A Facebook For #Hackers, Non-Hackers Alike

Rather than rest on their keyboards after being kicked off Google+, the hacking group known as Anonymous has created a holding page for AnonPlus, a "new social network where there is no fear…of censorship…of blackout…nor of holding back."

Link: http://bit.ly/rmJSqt

2011: The Year of the #Hacker and #Malware

Predictions that 2011 would be the year of malware and cybercrime have certainly panned out, with the website of Australia's SBS TV network the latest to suffer hacker infiltration.

Link: http://bit.ly/qjyZIM

Phone #hacking: A scandal that rocked Britain

The chief executive of a newspaper company resigns after allegations that her colleagues have hacked into the phone accounts of murder victims and their families; a Prime Minister moralises noisily in Parliament, trying to distract attention from the fact that he has been spending family holidays with this disgraced CEO, and that he appointed as his director of communications a man who employed those phone hackers; meanwhile, the country's most senior police officer is forced to admit that he, too, engaged someone implicated in the scandal – a ruthless and abrasive tabloid journalist from the same newspaper company – as his personal adviser.

Link: http://bit.ly/nRiFkk

#CyberWar News Morning Report is out!

http://m.paper.li/CyberWar_News/1309523449#headlines

US and Romanian authorities bust cybercrime group after $10M #cybercrime scams

The US authorities have accused 22 Romanian people involved in cybercrime activities in the US and await for the legal procedures to extradite them to Romania. The cybercrime group has conned over 2,000 people in the US, causing prejudices of over USD 10 million, according to Mark Gitenstein, the US Ambassador to Bucharest.

Link: http://bit.ly/ngc6uf

Rumor circulate about #NSA & Google anti # hacking alliance

 (CN) - The National Security Agency does not have to disclose its relationship with Google amid press reports that the two partnered up after hackers in China launched a cyber attack on the U.S. government, a federal judge in Washington ruled. 

Link: http://bit.ly/qkh4RQ