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BlackBerry Z10 Hits US Streets
The BlackBerry Z10 has finally arrived. The much anticipated, long-delayed smartphone from the former RIM, now BlackBerry became available in the US today from AT&T. The product has been available for a number of weeks in Britain, and had some success there. The US market however is considered the most critical high-end smartphone market and ...
NATO Document – Hacktivists Can Be Killed Under Rules of CyberWarfare
The Tallinn Manual on International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare was published this week, at the request of NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence. As you may imagine, its mission is to frame the rules of engagement for cyber warfare as a response to escalating attacks going on throughout cyberspace. The timing is interesting given ...
Mobile: BlackBerry, Windows – Never Say Die
If all the reports are to believed regarding the success or failure of the Blackberry and Windows Phone 8 platforms, well you wouldn’t know what to believe quite frankly. That’s because information is coming in that tells a bunch of different stories and bits here and there. In the end, we are left to guess ...
IHS Jane’s Says Stolen CBRN Information was Public Domain
IHS Jane’s has responded to the series of articles regarding the data leak executed by an Iranian hacker group known as Parastoo, we present this update. The hacker group leaked information belonging to the security intelligence and analysis group and made a number of significant threats and claims. An email that was received from Ed Mattix, ...
SwiftStack Steps Up to the Software-Defined Storage Party with Series A Funding
San Francisco-based SwiftStack has announced they have raised a total of $6.1 Million dollars in Series A funding. The round was led by Mayfield fund with participation from Storm Ventures and UMC Capital. The company had previously kicked things off with $1.5 million in seed funding. With the investments the company will be supporting growth ...
Cyberattack: Is Denver the Next Ground Zero?
Parastoo takes credit for Mystery JFK Drone, proclaims video will prove it The day may come when we look back at the cyber incidents of early 2013 as the smoking gun, the origin of a needless catastrophe, tracing back to the Denver region. Denver is the home of hacked military and CBRN intelligence company IHS ...
Breaking: Is the Mystery JFK Drone the Work of Hacktivists?
Just last week, we came out with a story about Iranian hackers that compromised intelligence group IHS Janes along with others. Along with the release of those documents, they made some pretty specific threats that involved taking control of drone craft to attack Vice President Joe Biden and his secret service convoy. They also mentioned ...
Bank of America Breach Highlights the Third-Party Security Problem
The Bank of America breach that hit the news this week has raised a lot of eyebrows. Some 14Gb of data was leaked in that incident and it was directed against Bank of America by an Anonymous-related hacking group known as Par:AnoiA. The incredibly sensitive internal information contained information such as salary and career information ...
2nd Watch and Slalom Consulting Collaborating on AWS Cloud Tech and Services
2nd Watch is combining forces with Slalom Consulting on a number of new cloud initiatives, according a press release. In a briefing with Jeff Aden, Founder and president of 2nd Watch, he shared how the efforts aim to bring forth enterprise solutions, leveraging both company’s strengths in cloud and infrastructure services. 2nd Watch is a ...
Iranian Hacker Story Gaining Momentum – Drone Threats, CBRN Data Leak
The Iranian Hacker story is gaining national momentum. Today I was on the American Adversaries Drive Time show as a guest to talk about the story. I followed Congressman Ron DeSantis on the WORL radio program, based out of Orlando, FL. For our new readers – Welcome to the franchise – the “ESPN of Tech” ...