I recently wrote a white paper entitled “Dragons, Tigers, Pearls, and Yellowcake” in which I proposed four alternative scenarios for the Stuxnet worm other than the commonly held assumption that it was Israel or the U.S. targeting Iran’s Bushehr or Natanz facilities. During the course of my research for that paper, I uncovered a connection [...]
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December 14th 2010 | Posted by admin
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Gossip site Gawker has experienced a large data breach whose scale fully came to light Sunday. The group that calls itself Gnosis claimed and provided evidence of responsibility, motivated in their words by Gawker’s arrogance in its previous dealings with members of the Internet board 4chan.
While Gawker has [...]
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December 10th 2010 | Posted by admin
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German mail service Deutsche Post recently launched a contest called Security Cup in which teams of hackers compete for money to find the company’s security flaws. Deutsche Post has sifted through applications from “ethical” hackers to select the teams. The contest rules say the teams are not allowed to touch [...]
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December 8th 2010 | Posted by admin
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The story of Huawei’s attempts to crack U.S., India, and UK markets–and its repeated failure due to security concerns regarding the Chinese government-linked company–has become even more bizarre with the announcement that Huawei has built a Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (CSEC) in Banbury, UK, apparently with the blessing of John Suffolk, UK Government [...]
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November 24th 2010 | Posted by admin
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Mobile devices are, without question, here to stay. Yet because mobile devices are so ubiquitous, we think of them primarily in terms of convenience, ignoring that an unauthorized user on a mobile device can be as dangerous as a prowler sneaking into corporate headquarters after hours.
More than half of mobile device users tap [...]
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November 24th 2010 | Posted by admin
In all of the thousands of words that have been printed about Stuxnet, and the many interviews given, there’s been almost no discussion of alternative targeting scenarios for the Stuxnet worm. In fact, apart from my own work in this area, there’s been essentially two options discussed: 1 – the target was Natanz and/or Bushehr, [...]
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November 13th 2010 | Posted by admin
Most C-level executives are inundated with far more material then they could ever read, so this post will be short and to the point. If you’re a CEO, CIO, or other C-level executive, here are three things that you need to know to avoid over-spending on cyber security:
ONE: If your enterprise isn’t in energy, defense, [...]
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November 13th 2010 | Posted by admin
“Success depends on sound deductions from a mass of intelligence” -Winston Churchill
New threats and new measures to counter them call for a reorganization of IT security teams so that they can focus on defending the organization from targeted attacks.
It is only ten years since most enterprises established separate security teams to address vulnerabilities and deploy [...]
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November 2nd 2010 | Posted by admin
British Energy, owned by France’s EDF Energy PLC, has reported an “unplanned outage” at its Heysham 1 nuclear power plant yesterday. A company spokesperson told the Associated Press that repairs to one of the reactors are ongoing but didn’t say when the plant was expected to resume operations.
According to Siemens’ website, EDF Energy is a [...]
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October 30th 2010 | Posted by admin
The predictable uproar that occurs when a cyber-related incident is made public (Stuxnet being the latest example) reminds me of the old line about how you shouldn’t worry about the bullets that you hear. It’s the one that you don’t hear that kills you.
Now before I get an outraged response from a handgun or armorer [...]