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IT Security Survey Reveals Concerns About Anonymous, China, and Disclosure Expectations
According to a survey plied recently in 2012 by Massachusetts-based Bit9, a company dedicated to providing trust-based security services for malware and breach detection, much of the IT industry is concerned about hactivists. Expectations form IT professionals have Anonymous/ hacktivists” leading the survey at 61 percent, “cyber criminals” follows, and “nation states” rank third, with ...
Cybersecurity Bill CISPA With Massive Privacy-Flaws Goes to House Vote Next Friday
The United States needs an intelligent, thoughtful front on policy involving cybersecurity but the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA or HR 3523) promotes a blunder that would open numerous citizens to untold violations of their privacy—and therefore their security. The bill has been rewritten a few times and the current draft still fails ...
Anonymous Looks to Obsolete Pastebin for Leaks With AnonPaste
The Anonymous hactivist collective has seen a tool arise from amidst its ranks that seeks to replace the use of Pastebin for releasing manifestos, articles of leaked data, and evidence of past exploits (often criminal or sensitive in nature.) This project, called “AnonPaste” has been announced in a joint statement between Anonymous and a yet-unknown ...
Glasgow University Chemists See 3D Printers as Innovative for “Printing” Pharmaceuticals
Researchers at Glasgow University have started looking into 3D printer technology for producing reaction vessels and reactants that can synthesize chemicals in predictable ways. As a result, a 3D printer could be used in a pharmacy (or even in the home) in order to produce pharmaceuticals on the spot from reactants and chemicals allowing for ...
U.S. and Chinese Militaries Practice Cyberwar and Play House
As the Internet breaks down borders between nations and begins to bound the economy, we’re looking at brand new forms of political and economic pressure and the advent of cyber warfare. On Monday, The Guardian reported that the United States and Chinese militaries have been secretly engaged in practice cyberwar games in an attempt to thwart ...
Canada’s Mint Chip Digital Currency Cannot Supplant Bitcoin
Digital currencies such as Bitcoin have become such a talking point across the Internet that even governments are starting to look at alternatives to paper and coin fiat money. The Royal Canadian Mint is planning to get into the mix with their own digital currency called Mint Chip—possibly right on the heels of removing pennies ...
Anonymous Hacker Havittaja Slams DDoS Into CIA, US Department of Justice Websites
In the wake of DDoS attacks against the UK Home Office, and the CIA, the International Business Times brings us the news that Anonymous cells have continued to disrupt government websites across the globe by washing away the US Department of Justice Website with a DDoS attack. The initial salvo against the cia.gov and justice.gov (the DOJ ...
FBI Staying “Abreast” of Hacker Case Leads to Capture
For anyone who watches TV shows about mystery or criminality, we usually realize that it only takes one mistake to take down a would-be criminal. In the hacker world it can work exactly the same way, however that mistake is often something entirely mundane such as bragging in a chat room, or not obfuscating the ...
Intel’s Jim Blakley Looks to the Future of Private Cloud and IT Growth
Dave Vellante and John Furrier in theCUBE at EMCVSPEX in San Francisco, CA brought in Jim Blakley, Director of Intel Architecture Systems Integration Division, to speak about the trends in IT towards cloud and big data. They asked questions relating to how the IT industry may approach the costs of going into the cloud, how ...
Flashback Trojan Estimate Drops as Security Experts Flay Apple for Slow Response
I grew up with the Mac vs. PC debate in full swing with a strange sort of sectarian dichotomy between the fans of Apple and everyone else. One of the biggest things that would be brought up, especially by the proponents of Macintosh was the general dearth of malware and viruses that could affect Apple ...