Chinese hackers resume cyber attacks on U.S. companies, government agencies
ANI Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on America three months after hackers, who worked for a cyber unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army, went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies. The hackers appear to have resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer industry [...]
Read More →Military academies grooming future officers for warfare in cyberspace
AP | Washington Post The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation’s military and civilian computer networks that control everything from electrical power grids to the banking system. Students at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies are taking more [...]
Read More →Top Chinese official admits consequences of cyber war ‘may be as serious as nuke bomb’
ANI A top Chinese military officer has said that the damaging consequences caused by cyber war ‘may be as serious as a nuclear bomb.’ General Fang Fenghui also offered some support for the idea of a working group to discuss cybersecurity, which was suggested by Secretary of State John Kerry during his visit to China [...]
Read More →Spam blocker falls victim to ‘one of the largest’ cyber-attacks
One of the largest ever cyber-attacks is slowing global internet services and the disruption could get worse, experts said on Wednesday, after an organization blocking “spam” content became a target.
Read More →US Homeland Security seeks ‘young, college-age hackers’ to help counter cyber threats
ANI The US Department of Homeland Security will hire hundreds of young, college-age hackers to counter an alarming number of daily incursions into the nation’s electrical grid and financial networks, according to a report. According to DHS head Janet Napolitano, this will be “hackers for good,” and the department currently has a need for about [...]
Read More →US, Israel cyber attacks on Iran act of force: NATO
PressTV NATO’s cyberwarfare center says cyber attacks launched against the Islamic Republic of Iran by the US and Israel constituted “an act of force” and were illegal under international law. According to The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, commissioned by NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Estonia, “Acts [...]
Read More →NATO recommends military retaliation against cyberattacks
By Curt Hopkins | Daily Dot Hackers who cause death or damage government property with cyberattacks could face retaliation under “the law of armed conflict,” according to a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) document. They could even be killed. At the request of NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, a group of about two dozen consultants, [...]
Read More →China Hacks India’s Defense Ministry
By Cassie Ryan | The Epoch Times A cyber-attack on India’s official military research agency has been traced to a server in China’s Guangdong Province. The breach against the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) took place earlier this month. Indian security experts traced the stolen files to a server in Guangdong, and found among them [...]
Read More →Cyberwar: The West started it
Gendo A few years ago, Israeli and American intelligence developed a computer virus with a specific military objective: damaging Iranian nuclear facilities. Stuxnet was spread via USB sticks and settled silently on Windows PCs. From there it looked into networks for specific industrial centrifuges using Siemens SCADA control devices spinning at highspeed to seperate Uranium-235 (the bomb [...]
Read More →Chinese Military Linked to Advanced Hacking Group That Tried to Bring Down U.S. Infrastructure
By Taylor Berman | Gawker The New York Times is reporting that members of China’s most advanced hacking group have been traced to the same small neighborhood as a Chinese Army base, a revelation that all but confirms that the Chinese military is behind the attacks. The hackers, known as the “Comment Crew,” have targeted various parts of the [...]
Read More →Pentagon to create National, Combat and Cyber Protection Mission Forces
By Ellen Nakashima | SMH The Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its cybersecurity force over the next several years, more than quadrupling its size to bolster the nation’s ability to defend critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries, according to US officials. The move, requested by the head of the [...]
Read More →Iran beefed up cyber capabilities after 2010 Stuxnet attack: US general
PressTV A senior US Air Force official says Iran has beefed up its cyber capabilities in reaction to a 2010 cyber attack with the Stuxnet computer virus on its nuclear facility, stressing it will be a “force to be reckoned with” in the future. “The Iranian situation is difficult to talk about. It’s clear that [...]
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