A man who used his IT expertise to launch cyber attacks on the websites of Oxford and Cambridge universities has been jailed for two years. Lewys Martin, 21, formerly of Dover Road, Walmer, Kent, also knocked Kent Police’s public-facing website offline for more than an hour during a bid to…
Critical vulnerability in cURL library allow remote code execution attacks
A critical buffer overflow vulnerability patched this week in the widely used open-source cURL library (libcurl) has the potential to expose a large number of applications and systems to remote code execution attacks. View full post on The Hacker News For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or…
Saudi student who planned WMD attacks gets life sentence
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Aldawsari The 22-year-old Saudi Arabian student convicted of trying to make bombs to attack U.S. targets, including the home of former president George W. Bush, was handed a life sentence by a federal judge on Nov. 13. Homepage position: 10 read more…
State Dept. warns of possible Al Shabaab attacks in Burundi
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: military_force_protection Image Caption: Bujumbura U.S. travelers in the central African state of Burundi continue to be targets for terror attacks by Somali terror group Al Shabaab, said the U.S. State Department in a new travel warning issued on Nov. 8. The State Department warned that…
DDoS attacks: A threat to national security?
Jeffrey A. Lyon Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Image Caption: Jeffrey Lyon Government agencies in the United States are becoming more aware of the threats to free enterprise and public infrastructure posed by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Although these attacks have posed a substantial threat for more than a…
ICS-CERT urges operators to use searchable databases to prevent attacks
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Searchable, online databases that outside hackers use as a resource to breach equipment on critical infrastructure operating systems, should be used by infrastructure providers to locate and prevent such attacks, said the Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). Homepage position: 10 read…
Future cyber attacks could rival 9-11, cripple US, warns Panetta
The U.S. is facing a dramatically increasing threat from cyber attacks and a future attack on the country's critical infrastructure could have an effect similar to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of 2001, the U.S. Secretary of Defense said Thursday evening. View full post on Computerworld Security News For more…
Cyber attacks on infrastructure more critical, damaging, says Panetta
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Image Caption: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Electronic attacks on critical infrastructure are becoming more damaging and perilous, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who described a recent, Cyber attack on Saudi oil company ARAMCO possibly backed by Iranian hackers. In an Oct. 11 speech…
ASIS 2012: Cyber attacks aren’t the only danger for power infrastructure
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Although organized, deliberate Cyber attacks are one of the most potentially crippling threats out there for the North American power grid, other, less-high tech dangers still lurk that could hobble the electrical system, or even bring it to its knees. Those dangers are constantly…
Time Line of Attacks from Operation Australia (#OpAustralia)
Time line of events from OpAustralia. View full post on Cyber War News View full post on The Cyber Wars