It has been reported that computer hackers have breached some of the top secret systems within the Ministry of Defence. The Guardian says the military’s head of cyber-security Major General Jonathan Shaw has told it the number of successful attacks was “hard to quantify.” “The number of serious incidents is quite small, but it is there,” he said. “And those are the ones we know about. The likelihood is there are problems in there we don’t know about.” Hackers try to break into Government system every day but this is reported to be the first admission that the MOD’s own systems have been breached. An MOD spokesman told the newspaper: “The MOD takes all possible precautions to defend our system from attack from both unsolicited, for example ‘spam’ email, and targeted sources. It would be both misleading and naïve to assume that any system is 100% secure against all possible threats which is why we take additional steps to detect suspicious activity within our own systems. “We also ensure that our most sensitive networks are not connected to the internet and have additional physical and technical measures in place to defend them.” They added “while we recognise we are not immune to cyber attacks, none of these have impacted upon classified systems. The MOD takes all possible precautions to defend its system from attack from both unsolicited, for example “spam” email, and targeted sources.”
Sign the Petition to Stop CISPA: www.avaaz.org Michael Rodgers, Creator of CISPA: pastebin.com CISPA BILL: thomas.loc.gov Supporters of CISPA; intelligence.house.gov Mozilla’s issues with CISPA mirror opposition that was voiced last week on Capitol Hill during debates over the legislation. Rep Jan Schakowsky (D Illinois) said the cybersecurity bill “still fails to adequately safeguard the privacy of Americans” and that the government needs to be able to “combat the serious threat of cyber attacks and still insure that we are protecting our computer systems and the civil liberties of Americans.”
Application Security: content.dell.com The US Government recieves cyber attacks every second from all over the world. Government CIOs have taken focus off of hiring consultants to see what is wrong (0+ spent on this over 6 years). Now the focus is using internal Government resources to hack our own system and begin to patch up the vulnerable areas.
The House in the Middle is a 1954 short (Edited from the original 12:09) documentary film produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau, which attempted to show that a clean, freshly painted miniature house is more likely to survive a nuclear attack than its poorly maintained counterpart. Note that you have to be on the outer fringes of an attack to even consider the paint job as worth while. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film “culturally significant” and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film was actually produced by the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association. The likelihood that repainting a house would be effective in protecting it from the extreme heat and blast force of a nuclear explosion is questionable.
My Blog: alienspacecentereast.wordpress.com Google turns to the National Security Agency NSA, to protect is self from internet hackers in the wake of a cyber attack it believes came from China. No one knows for sure if Google was attacked by Chinese hackers, but Google just claim that. National Security Agency (NSA) conducts surveillance, spying and cyber espionage for the federal government and their job is to monitoring digital communications. The investigative journalist Webster Tarpley says, that Google have been founded by the US intelligence community as so many other silicon valley corporations have been. The general believe, that these companies are meek as lambs, is pure “iWash”. Does Google really object to censorship? The famous FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmunds, was about to testify for congress with very damaging information contradicting the US official account of 9/11, and she had a Google blog, and just before she should testify for the congress, Google blocked her blog and acused her for spamming. Who founded Google and how did they get this tremendous supremacy in the late 90´s? Well, there is a CIA proprietary non-profit organisation called “In-Q-Tel”, that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency CIA equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability. In-Q-Tel and CIA created back in 1999, under Norman Ralph Augustine, project Keyhole …
For three days, 29 nations worked together to prevent various simulated computer viruses and malicious programmes from infiltrating their networks. A large-scale network exercise organized by NATO.
L’Iran aura bientôt une cyber armée . L’idée de construire le pays la première jamais cyber armée a été soulevée en 2010 alors que les agents de sécurité ont un virus appelé Stuxnet qui a attaqué les sites industriels du pays, notamment ceux qui gèrent l’approvisionnement en eau, les plates-formes pétrolières et centrales nucléaires. Les agents disent qu’ils prévoient également de mettre en place un internet national afin de minimiser l’usurpation d’identité et de cyber-attaques. Parler à la presse TV le dernier jour de la première conférence nationale sur la cyberdéfense, chef de l’organisation de la défense Passive de l’Iran a déclaré qu’ils aimeraient avoir une armée de cyber, après le lancement réussi de l’état-major de la défense cyber avec le soutien de plus de 60 organisations, des ministères et des entités privées. Selon les responsables, l’Iran est toujours le premier pays du Moyen-Orient pour être effectivement engagé dans une guerre cyber avec les États-Unis et Israël. Si quoi que ce soit, ils ont dit, les cyber-attaques récentes étaient ce qui les a encouragés à mettre en place l’organisation de la défense Passive – qui regroupe des informaticiens, programmeurs, ingénieurs et spécialistes de la cyber sécurité. Experts disent qu’il est logique pour l’Iran de constituer une armée de cyber, parce que c’est un pays fortement filaire avec plus de 36 millions d’internautes, plus de 50 pour cent de la population totale. Iran will soon have a cyber army. The idea to …
More information on computer virus, computer support and network security can be found at www.tworivertech.com We’re a network security company located here in Shrewsbury NJ. In the next 5 minutes I’m going to give you a set of behaviors that you can start using right now in your company to dramatically reduce the possibility of a virus or other computer-born threat being able to successfully attack your network. The great news about this is it won’t cost you a dime. So let’s get started. The first thing you need to know about viruses is the way that they arrive and the way that they spread. There’s typically two ways that this happen 1. By email attachment 2. By web browsing Let’s cover each of these in some detail. First email. The only way for a virus to spread by email is through an attachment. The attachment will be some sort of executable file which, when run, does something bad including spreading itself. It used to be that the only way this would happen would be by having files which end in .exe or .bat or .com. But now, it’s much easier than that because many more files will allow some sort automated programming where the bad guys can attach their malware. For example, Word documents can run scripts. So can Excel. So the virus spreads or attacks when someone unwittingly double clicks on the attachment. Second, let’s cover the web browsing aspect. Viruses can attack through something called the cache. Exactly how they do this is beyond the scope of this video. But …
NASA LOOSES International SPACE STATION Codes on STOLEN LAPTOP Four dozen high-tech computing devices disappeared from the offices of NASA over a two-year span, including one laptop that contained the code needed to command the International Space Station. No big deal, guys! A laptop with the algorithm used to control the ISS was one of 48 gizmos and gadgets that NASA either reported lost or stolen between April 2009 and April 2011, the agency’s inspector general, Paul Martin, tells the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Although the incidents date back to nearly three years ago, Martin has only now informed Congress of the accidents. They are discussed in a written statement he authored and published this week under the title “NASA Cybersecurity: An Examination of the Agency’s Information Security.” For the Cliff Notes version, we’ve got you covered. Information security at NASA: not so good. Over the course of ten pages, Martin makes mention of what he says are five issues that NASA believes, based on their “extensive audit and investigative work,” make up NASA’s “most serious challenges in the admittedly difficult task of protecting the agency’s information.” For starters, we suggest putting a damn lock on the safe. Martin goes on to list those challenges as including a “lack of full awareness of Agency-wide security posture,”"shortcomings in implementing a continuous monitoring approach to IT security” and the “slow pace of encryption.” Also, however …