'Robin Sage' Profile Duped Military Intelligence, IT Security Pros

'Robin Sage' Profile Duped Military Intelligence, IT Security Pros

'Robin Sage' Profile Duped Military Intelligence, IT Security Pros

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InfoSec News: 'Robin Sage' Profile Duped Military Intelligence, IT Security Pros: http://www.darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/privacy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702468
By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading July 06, 2010
Seasoned red team hacker Chris Nickerson initially accepted Robin Sage's LinkedIn invitation because several of his colleagues had, but after [...]

Throwing The Sun Tzu Baby Out With The InfoSec Bathwater

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InfoSec News: Throwing The Sun Tzu Baby Out With The InfoSec Bathwater: http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/07/06/throwing-the-sun-tzu-baby-out-with-the-infosec-bathwater/
By Jeffrey Carr The Firewall Forbes.com July 6, 2010
Steve Tornio and Brian Martin just published a 5,000 word rant [1] against anyone who dares utter the name Sun Tzu in connection with [...]

Apple App Store Suffers Hack Attack

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InfoSec News: Apple App Store Suffers Hack Attack: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702415
By Paul McDougall InformationWeek July 6, 2010
Apple said Tuesday that it removed a seller from its online applications store after discovering that he gamed the store's sales ranking system [...]

IT Official Blames N. Korea for Cyber Attacks

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InfoSec News: IT Official Blames N. Korea for Cyber Attacks: http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2010070747078
THE DONG-A ILBO July 07, 2010
North Korea was behind the cyber attacks that occurred a year ago Wednesday, according to a government IT source in South Korea.
The distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks paralyzed more than 20 domestic sites including those of the presidential office and major portal sites.
On foreign media reports saying no evidence linked the North to the attacks, Jeong Seok-hwa, investigation director at the Cyber Terror Response Center in charge of the investigation, said, "No country including the U.S. could identify the origin of the DDoS attacks that occurred a year ago. Thankfully, the discovery by Korean investigation agencies has been the most credible so far."
On how he was sure that it was Pyongyang, Jeong said, "It might be too early to conclude this, but the facts so far have shown that the IP address used for the attacks was the same one rented by North Korea's Posts and Telecommunications Ministry from a Chinese Internet provider."
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DentaQuest notifies local families of possible fraud

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InfoSec News: DentaQuest notifies local families of possible fraud: http://www.clevelandbanner.com/view/full_story/8389835/article-DentaQuest-notifies-local-families-of-possible-fraud
By Rick Norton Associate Editor Cleveland Daily Banner July 6, 2010
A dental benefits manager for multiple government programs in the U.S. [...]

DeepSec 2010 - Call for Papers - REMINDER

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InfoSec News: DeepSec 2010 - Call for Papers - REMINDER: Forwarded from: DeepSec Conference <deepsec (at) deepsec.net>
== REMINDER: Call for Papers and Experts === DeepSec In-Depth Security Conference 2010 - Quad Core, the fourth DeepSec
The is a reminder for the Call for Papers sent out in April. The next [...]

Army Major cleared of espionage charges

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InfoSec News: Army Major cleared of espionage charges: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Army-Major-cleared-of-espionage-charges/Article1-568259.aspx
Press Trust Of India New Delhi July 06, 2010
An Andaman-based Army Major, who came under the scanner after his computer was remotely accessed from Pakistan, has been cleared by the [...]

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