Israel using civilian technological advances to enhance cyberwarfare capabilities

TEL AVIV- Israel is using its civilian technological advances to enhance cyberwarfare capabilities, the senior Israeli spymaster said on Tuesday in a rare public disclosure about the secret program.
Using computer networks for espionage — by hacking into databases — or to carry out sabotage through so-called “malicious software” planted in sensitive control systems has been [...]

Chinese cyber espionage grows against U.S

WASHINGTON  – China’s government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday.
“A large body of both circumstantial and forensic evidence strongly indicates Chinese state involvement in such activities,” the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in [...]

South Korea seeks Chinese help to track cyber attacks

SEOUL, – South Korean police said Monday they would request help from China to track the origins of cyber attacks that briefly crippled US and South Korean government and commercial websites in July.
“We are now seeking help from Chinese authorities to launch a joint investigation,” a national police agency official told AFP, speaking on condition [...]

Northrop Grumman Opens Cyber Security Operations Center

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2009  – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) last week opened a new, state-of-the-art Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC), a comprehensive cyber threat detection and response center that focuses on protecting Northrop Grumman and its customers’ networks and data worldwide.

State-of-the-art Cyber Security Operations Center, a comprehensive cyber threat detection and response center that focuses [...]

Cyber attacks may have come from Britain : South Korea

SEOUL — A Vietnamese computer security firm believes Britain was the likely origin of last week’s cyber attacks that crippled major US and South Korean websites, Seoul officials said. The Korea Communications Commission said the information came from Vietnamese firm Bach Khoa Internetwork Security. Vietnam is part of a regional grouping known as the Asia [...]

South Korea spy agency “hunts” North Korean for cyber attack

SEOUL — Seoul’s spy agency has identified a North Korean hacker who could be behind a series of cyber attacks on South Korea and the United States, according to a newspaper report. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) has found an Internet protocol (IP) address used by a North Korean whose family name is Yun, an [...]

White House, Pentagon websites targeted by cyberattack

WASHINGTON — Around a dozen US government websites, including those of the White House and the Pentagon, were targeted in a coordinated cyberattack which also struck sites in South Korea, computer security experts said Wednesday. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that US government and private sector websites had come under so-called “distributed denial of [...]

South Korea to set up cyber warfare command

SEOUL — South Korea’s military is looking to launch a cyber warfare command designed to fend off computer attacks from North Korea and other countries, officials said. The plan will be included in a military reform package to be presented to President Lee Myung-Bak, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP.
South Korea’s military computer networks are [...]

UFO-obsessed British hacker fights extradition to U.S

LONDON  — A Briton accused of hacking into NASA computers should not be extradited to the US due to his mental health, a lawyer said Tuesday, adding that he was eccentric and “passionate” about UFOs.

British hacker Gary McKinnon, and his mother Janis Sharp, arrive at the High Court, in London. January 20, 2009. McKinnon is [...]

Raytheon and The University of Texas at Austin Partner to Provide Innovative Cybersecurity Solutions

GARLAND and AUSTIN, Texas, May 27, 2009  – Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has partnered with The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Information Assurance and Security (CIAS) on research for new and innovative cybersecurity solutions.
Cybersecurity is one of the major national security problems facing the United States, and President Obama has made protecting the [...]