Extended Deadline: Final CFP: ERCIM STM'2010

Extended Deadline: Final CFP: ERCIM STM'2010 <LNCS publication + Journal of Computer Security special issue>

Extended Deadline: Final CFP: ERCIM STM'2010 <LNCS publication + Journal of Computer Security special issue>

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InfoSec News: Extended Deadline: Final CFP: ERCIM STM'2010 : Forwarded from: "M. Carmen Fernadez Gago" <mcgago (at) cc.uma.es>
** Apologies for multiple copies **
*Call for Papers *
*6th International Workshop on
SECURITY and TRUST MANAGEMENT (STM'10)
Athens, Greece
23-24 September 2010 *
http://www.isac.uma. [...]

Kyrgyzstan on verge of cyber war

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InfoSec News: Kyrgyzstan on verge of cyber war: http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/06/17/10020320.html
By Marina Volkova The Voice of Russia Jun 17, 2010
The escalating ethnic conflict in Kyrgyzstan has already given rise to cyber attacks carried out on government and media websites. Russian cyber security experts refer to them as means of information warfare.
Cyber attacks, sometimes known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, involve breaking into millions of computers to forward requests to all servers within the .kg domain zone, bringing them down. Users cannot therefore get access to official information, said Roman Romachev, the Director General of the R-Techno agency of business intelligence. Hackers launch attacks from computers all over the Internet, making the tracing of these requests absolutely impossible, he said.
As part of the cyber war, DDoS attacks block all your opponent.s information. Frequently used during election campaigns and costing only one hundred dollars, these attacks may deactivate numerous web sites, Roman Romachev says.
The information war has not yet started in full force and effect in Kyrgyzstan, according to Russian IT-analyst Andrei Masalovich of DialogueScience Inc. He believes cyber attacks could be launched on every country which will send its troops to Kyrgyzstan to help resolve the ethnic conflict. Russia should not therefore intervene in the current situation, the businessman said.
Further aggravation of the ongoing conflict will result in a full-scale information war. Those who will bring armed forces to the republic, will be definitely exposed to massive cyber attacks.
Battles in cyberspace are an integral part of armed conflicts, like for instance, the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia in 2008. Tbilisi then unleashed another kind of war, blocking the country.s entire web segment, so that the world could not find out the truth about the origins of the conflict.

Banking's big dilemma: How to stop cyberheists via customer PCs

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InfoSec News: Banking's big dilemma: How to stop cyberheists via customer PCs: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/061710-online-banking.html
By Ellen Messmer Network World June 17, 2010
In online banking and payments, customers' PCs have become the Achilles' heel of the financial industry as cyber-crooks remotely take control of [...]

Cybersecurity Not A 'Command And Control' Effort

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InfoSec News: Cybersecurity Not A 'Command And Control' Effort: http://www.darkreading.com/security/government/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225700567
By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading June 17, 2010
Cybersecurity initiatives will always be distributed efforts, which is what makes the cybersecurity czar's position so crucial, according to [...]

Researcher shows how to strike back at web assailants

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InfoSec News: Researcher shows how to strike back at web assailants: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17/exploiting_online_attackers/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 17th June 2010
A security researcher has disclosed details on more than a dozen previously unknown vulnerabilities that people responding to web-based [...]

Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-24

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InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-24: ========================================================================
The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2010-06-10 - 2010-06-17
This week: 89 advisories [...]

Computer Hacker Jailed

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InfoSec News: Computer Hacker Jailed: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/140336/Computer-hacker-jailed/
By Elizabeth James Daily Star 18th June 2010
A COMPUTER hacker who bought 30,000 U.K.P. of gold bullion thanks to an intricate fraud scam was jailed yesterday.
Alistair Peckover, 21, also bought a Porsche and had 40,000 cash stashed in two containers when arrested.
The 'obsessive loner' used his self-taught skills to breach security barriers on Google and BT websites and obtain details of customers. email accounts.
He used the information to defraud them and fund his gambling habit.
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