Foreign cyber spies target British defence official

Foreign cyber spies target British defence official

Foreign cyber spies target British defence official

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InfoSec News: Foreign cyber spies target British defence official: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/22/mod_spear_phish/
By Chris Williams The Register 22nd November 2010
Foreign spies targeted a senior British defence official in a sophisticated spear phishing operation that aimed to steal military secrets. [...]

[Dataloss Weekly Summary] Week of Sunday, November 14, 2010

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InfoSec News: [Dataloss Weekly Summary] Week of Sunday, November 14, 2010: ========================================================================
Open Security Foundation - DataLossDB Weekly Summary Week of Sunday, November 14, 2010
9 Incidents Added.
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Chinese National Stole Ford Secrets Worth More Than $50 Million

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InfoSec News: Chinese National Stole Ford Secrets Worth More Than $50 Million: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/chinese-national-stole-ford-secrets-worth-more-50-million-112210
By Paul Roberts Threat Post November 22, 2010
A ten year veteran of the U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company pleaded guilty in federal court on November 17 to charges that he stole company [...]

Could Stuxnet Mess With North Korea’s New Uranium Plant?

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InfoSec News: Could Stuxnet Mess With North Korea's New Uranium Plant?: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/could-stuxnet-mess-with-north-koreas-new-uranium-plant/
By Kim Zetter and Spencer Ackerman Danger Room Wired.com November 22, 2010
The Stuxnet worm may have a new target. While security analysts try to figure out whether the now-infamous malware was built to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program, North Korea has unveiled a new uranium enrichment plant that appears to share components with Iran’s facilities. Could Pyongyang’s centrifuges be vulnerable to Stuxnet?
While U.S. officials are trying to figure out how to respond to North Korea’s unveiling of a new uranium enrichment plant, there are clues that a piece of malware believed to have hit Iran’s nuclear efforts could also target the centrifuges Pyongyang’s preparing to spin.
Some of the equipment used by the North Koreans to control their centrifuges — necessary for turning uranium into nuclear-bomb-ready fuel — appear to have come from the same firms that outfitted the Iranian nuclear program, according to David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security and a long-time watcher of both nuclear programs. “The computer-control equipment North Korea got was the same Iran got,” Albright told Danger Room.
Nearly two months before the Yongbyon revelation, Albright published a study covering the little that’s publicly known about the North’s longstanding and seemingly stalled efforts at enriching its own uranium. (.pdf) Citing unnamed European intelligence officials, Albright wrote that the North Korean control system “is dual use, also used by the petrochemical industry, but was the same as those acquired by Iran to run its centrifuges.”
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EU, US and NATO to work together on cyber defense

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InfoSec News: EU, US and NATO to work together on cyber defense: http://www.csoonline.com/article/638565/eu-us-and-nato-to-work-together-on-cyber-defense
By Jennifer Baker IDG News Service November 22, 2010
A range of new plans to tackle cyber-crime has been approved by the European Union, the U.S and NATO over the past three days. [...]

Royal Navy Attack Stresses SQL Injection Dangers

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InfoSec News: Royal Navy Attack Stresses SQL Injection Dangers: http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/application-security/228300268/royal-navy-attack-stresses-sql-injection-dangers.html
By Ericka Chickowski Contributing Writer Darkreading Nov 19, 2010
The danger of SQL injection last week hit the limelight once again when [...]

TSA and the New "Americanism"

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InfoSec News: TSA and the New "Americanism": http://infowarrior.org/pubs/oped/tsa-americanism.html
(c) 2010 Richard Forno. Permission granted to reproduce freely with credit.
There is a vocal segment of the American political fringe that throws around words like "communism", "socialism", or "fascism" in describing [...]

The Cold War: Then and now

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InfoSec News: The Cold War: Then and now: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cold-war-then-and-now
By Robert Mullins Microsoft Tech Network World 11/20/10
When Dickie George of the National Security Agency says, "This is life and death and about our freedom and our way of life," he’s not talking [...]

Hacked Federal Reserve network was test-only

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InfoSec News: Hacked Federal Reserve network was test-only: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197440/Hacked_Federal_Reserve_network_was_test_only
By Robert McMillan IDG News Service November 19, 2010
A June 2010 hacking incident that compromised a network at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland happened on a test system and not the bank's [...]

China Internet 'hijack' hugely exaggerated, says researcher

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InfoSec News: China Internet 'hijack' hugely exaggerated, says researcher: http://news.techworld.com/security/3249585/china-internet-hijack-hugely-exaggerated-says-researcher/
By John E Dunn Techworld 19 November 10
The claimed ‘hijack’ of Internet traffic by China Telecom has been hugely exaggerated in scale and intent, a traffic analysis by Internet [...]

House bill would give DHS authority over private sector networks

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InfoSec News: House bill would give DHS authority over private sector networks: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/129879-house-bill-would-give-dhs-authority-over-private-sector-networks
By Gautham Nagesh Hillicon Valley 11/18/10
A new bill unveiled Wednesday by House Homeland Security chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss. [...]

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