Compiled by The Cyber Loop editor
U.S. seeks allies in battle against cyber warfare: The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense stopped in Ottawa Monday to drum up support for a new international organization to combat cyber warfare.
Next Cyberstorm exercise to stress international cooperation on security: When Cyberstorm III, an exercise that will test the government’s readiness to defend against a major cyberattack, commences in September it will have a greater international presence than the two cybersecurity exercises that preceded it.
Pentagon Launches Salvo in War to Protect an Army of 7 Million: War is coming — a war of ones and zeroes, that is.
From post office to ‘Net: FBI’s Most Wanted cybercriminals: Photos of bank robbers used to line the walls of post offices across the US as part of the FBI’s “Most Wanted” lists. You may not notice them when you have the occasion to walk into your local post office, but the Most Wanted lists are alive and well.
Navy CIO Carey leaving: Navy chief information officer Rob Carey announced today he will be leaving his position.
Defense firms face cyber spying at arms bazaar: Top arms groups are on high alert to counter cyber spies from stealing their own secrets at a major arms bazaar outside Paris, even as they market new ways to clients on how to repel hackers in the digital battlespace.
Join the National Cyber Corps, See the World … Virtually: As the rate and sophistication of cyber attacks continues to grow, a debate is raging surrounding how to protect the federal and critical infrastructure networks. For Erik Laykin, managing director Duff & Phelps Global Electronics and co-practice chair for the company’s Discovery and Investigations practice, creating a National Cyber Corps could hold the answer.
Gourley: Intelligence Community Should Provide Unclassified Cyber Threat Assessments Annually: Last week, Sens. Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins and Tom Carper unveiled the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, S.3480. The bill will create a permanent Office of Cyber Policy in the White House and form a give the Department of Homeland Security the power to enforce cyber policy in the government and private sector.
10 R&D Cybersecurity Initiatives Congress Seeks: A cybersecurity bill introduced in the Senate last week lists key research and development initiatives the government would back in its quest to secure critical information systems and networks. The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, as the Senate measure is known, lists 10 R&D initiatives.
Boeing among defense firms fighting cyberterrorism: At Boeing Co.’s cyber operations center in St. Louis, a flashing, 54-inch computer screen warns of modern-day burglars and spies.
Cyber War: Sabotaging the System: Nothing has ever changed the world as quickly as the Internet has. Less than a decade ago, “60 Minutes” went to the Pentagon to do a story on something called information warfare, or cyber war as some people called it then. It involved using computers and the Internet as weapons.
‘Assange Is in Some Danger’: Government officials tell The Daily Beast that they are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, whom they believe is in possession of State Department secrets leaked to him by an Army intelligence specialist now under arrest.
Famous hacker suddenly finds himself infamous, in some quarters: On Thursday afternoon, Adrian Lamo sat quietly in the corner of a Starbucks inside the Carmichael Safeway, tapping on a laptop that requires his thumbprint to turn on and answering his cell phone.
New Cyberattacks in SKorea; Sites Suffer No Damage: Two South Korean government websites were struck by the second cyberattack in a week, but suffered no major damage, the government said Saturday.
Soldier leaked Google attack investigation details, hacker says: An Army analyst jailed for allegedly leaking a video of a controversial Iraq air strike also allegedly leaked classified information about a U.S. investigation into cyberattacks on Google that originated in China, the hacker who turned in the analyst told CNET on Saturday.
McKinnon charges exaggerated by government: The British government may have exaggerated the charges against Gary McKinnon and distorted a High Court judgment, making it appear the hacker’s extradition was irrefutable when it was not, according to evidence presented to courts as part of his extradition process.
AT&T Hackers: iPad Security Flaw Still Unpatched: AT&T’s war of words is heating up with the hackers who last week revealed that 114,000 iPad users’ emails could be seen via a flaw in the company’s Web site. Now those cybersecurity researchers are bringing out another piece of ammunition: that a security flaw in the iPad they revealed in March still hasn’t been patched.
How to create the best federal cybersecurity workforce: Cybersecurity is perhaps one of the most important, and fastest growing, job fields in the country.
Cyber war fever — Catch it!: Has the risk of cyber war been grossly exaggerated? It depends on whom you ask. According to the audience attending last week’s Intelligence Squared debate in Washington D.C., it’s a very real threat.
New legislation needed to tackle cybercrime: The Rudd government will consult with telcos and ISPs on new legislation required before Australia can sign up for the global convention on cybercrime.
CERT Australia takes on more staff: The new agency began advertising for cyber-security specialists in March, while negotiations were still under way with AusCERT over a contract to supply operational and advisory services to the private sector.
Cyber Command Update: Following the confirmation by the Senate in May of General Keith Alexander to head U.S. Cyber Command, the Department of Defense and military services are moving ahead in establishing organizations dedicated to protecting military networks—and possibly to wage offensive cyber-operations.
Industry Cyber Perspectives: (Editor’s Note: In connection with coverage of the establishment of U.S. Cyber Command, Military Information Technology posed the following question to some of the leading companies in the field of information security: “What ideas or perspectives do you see as critical as the military works to strengthen the security of its networks, including establishing new cyber command organizations?” Following are their responses.)
Editor’s Perspective: Even as the U.S. military moves to organize strengthen its offensive and defensive capabilities in cyberspace, it may be neglecting the critical battleground of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), according to a new report from the organization that represents the nation’s electronic warriors.
Snort’ing Out Anomalies: Detecting determined attackers focused on getting your data and getting away with it is not an easy task. To that end, many security products have been created to address the issue by attempting everything from separation of privileges and tight access control to full network packet inspection and data loss prevention