#Anonymous will act against UK web shutdowns #AntiSec

THE HACKTIVIST GROUP Anonymous has issued a rather thinly veiled threat to the Government about its proposed plans to shut down social networking during times of social unrest.

Fresh from his holidays, UK Prime Minister David Cameron set about making himself look like a powerful and reassuring leader. He failed, and perhaps while scrabbling towards credibility he decided that perhaps the best thing to do would be to tackle social neworking, since he thought that caused the riots and looting that have recently beset cities and towns all across the UK.

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#Hacker Attack on Hong Kong Exchange Website Triggers Halts Trading

Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., the world's biggest bourse operator by market value, suspended trading yesterday for companies including lender HSBC Holdings Plc after its website was hacked.

Europe's largest bank by market capitalization, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. and five other stocks were halted after a "malicious attack" on the exchange's website for corporate filings, Chief Executive Officer Charles Li said yesterday. The website was partially disabled as companies including Hong Kong Exchanges reported earnings.

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#Anonymous and #China Rank Among Top 5 Potential Cyber-Enemies for the United States

The blogosphere is abuzz over the latest Black Hat presentation exposing the security holes of Apple's Mac OS X. The upshot is that Microsoft Windows, in comparison, does a better job of protecting its users, especially against network protocol attacks. A proof-of-concept hack shown at the Black Hat security conference involved plugging one rogue Mac computer into an enterprise network, where it was soon able to gather the authentication credentials of all the other Macs in the environment.

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#Apple security under attack by #hackers at #DefCon

The blogosphere is abuzz over the latest Black Hat presentation exposing the security holes of Apple's Mac OS X. The upshot is that Microsoft Windows, in comparison, does a better job of protecting its users, especially against network protocol attacks. A proof-of-concept hack shown at the Black Hat security conference involved plugging one rogue Mac computer into an enterprise network, where it was soon able to gather the authentication credentials of all the other Macs in the environment.

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Aruba Fields an Impenetrable Network Based on Its Mobile Virtual Enterprise

Aruba Networks, Inc., which provided and maintained the wireless network for last week's Black Hat USA 2011 conference in Las Vegas, Nev., today provided some interesting statistics around the network's use. Black Hat is the world's largest annual gathering of computer hackers, and has become one of the most important computer and networking security shows as a result.

The device-fingerprinting capabilities of the Aruba network enabled visibility into exactly who was using what on the network. Apple devices were most prevalent at 43.3 percent of all devices (28.4 percent alone for iOS iPad and iPhone, with another 14.9 percent running OS X). Linux users composed 35 percent of the total, while Windows users represented 21.8 percent.

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#BlackHat: 'OS X networks are significantly more vulnerable to # hackers

According to Alex Stamos of iSec Partners, OS X has a greater number of vulnerabilities compared to Windows 7, and when it comes to network security, 'OS X networks are significantly more vulnerable to network privilege escalation,' and that 'almost every OSX server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms

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Black Hat: 'OS X networks are significantly more vulnerable'

According to Alex Stamos of iSec Partners, OS X has a greater number of vulnerabilities compared to Windows 7, and when it comes to network security, 'OS X networks are significantly more vulnerable to network privilege escalation,' and that 'almost every OSX server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.'

Stamos also goes on to dispel the myth that Mac OS X isn't attracting attention from hackers. To support this he points out that over the past three years 1,151 major vulnerabilities have affected Apple products, only slightly less than the 1,325 affecting Windows.

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#Cyberwar fears: disaggregating the #hacker threat

My man Mark Thompson puts up a cheeky post yesterday that I most heartily approved of. In it he speaks of cyberwar worrywarts and rightly fears that, as the terror war recedes in some priority, new little piggies approach the DoD trough. And as these cyberwar advocates find such a prime target in China, I would note that their efforts merge with those of the big-war crowd that also hopes to regain ascendancy - despite the overall budget crunch.

Now, Mark gets immediately taken to task by none other the great Bruce Sterling over at Wired (HT, Craig Nordin). All contretemps concerning Jules Verne aside, Sterling's points don't negate Mark's post really at all. He just argues orthogonally that the Chinese cyber thievery is vast - meaning global, and that the general background noise of nasty bits floating around global IT networks are getting truly serious (beyond ankle biting, as he puts it). Sterling casually dismisses the whole get-rich-quick effort by cyberwar enthusiasts in the defense community by saying this is normal behavior.

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