To many modern readers, the issue between the Koreas is distant and a bit unreal. We see the now-deceased comical madman leader and his hapless current heir. This author’s father, on the other hand, lost a favorite younger brother to a Korean landmine in the 1950’s, making the ongoing conflict tangible. While conventional weapons are in use between these two halves of a nation, still technically at war with itself, the cyber background is still full of landmines as is the very real DMZ on the 38th parallel.
North Korea is thought to have targeted cyberattacks against the United States and South Korea since at least 2009, including successful attacks against Korean sites and the public websites of the Federal Trade Commission, Department of the Treasury and (somewhat ineffectively) against the White House.
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Barbara Scott just hit the trifecta of computer security breaches. Since the New Year, Ms. Scott has been a victim of three separate cyberattacks. Two weeks ago, the online auction site eBay said in an e-mail to her that there had been suspicious activity on her account. On Monday, she received an e-mail from Zappos…
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JERUSALEM — Israel faced an escalating cyberwar on Monday as unknown attackers disrupted access to the symbolically strategic Web sites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, the national airline. A hacker identifying himself as oxOmar, already notorious for posting the details of more than 20,000 Israeli credit cards, sent an overnight warning to Israel’s Ynet news outlet…
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Speakers confirmed include: * Diane Slater – Lead Case Officer (Enforcement), ICO * Piers Wilson – Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) * Ruth Boardman – Partner, Bird & Bird * Dr. Fabian Niemann – Partner, Bird & Bird * Jeanette Fitzgerald – General Counsel, Epsilon * Martin Hoskins – Head of Data Protection, Everything Everywhere
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*Berkman Center for Internet & Society Summer Internship Program 2012* <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships_summer> Each summer the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University swings open the doors of our big yellow house to welcome a group of talented and curious students as full-time interns – Berkterns! <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=berktern> – who are passionate about the promise of…
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While not a revolution as such, cyber warfare is now a reality. Stuxnet damaged Iran’s nuclear capacity, and America isn’t immune. The recent Duqu attacks targeted individuals by tailoring emails and documents using personal information—a convergence of cyber warfare and loss of privacy.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama’s new military strategy has focused fresh attention on an increasingly important threat: the use of inexpensive weapons like mines and cyberattacks that aim not to defeat the American military in battle but to keep it at a distance. The president and his national security team predict that the security challenges of the coming decade…
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26-28 June 2012 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia You are invited to participate in The International Conference on Cyber Security, CyberWarfare and Digital Forensic that will be held at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, on June 26-28, 2012. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by…
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24-27 January, 2012 The Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London, UK The only cyber conference incorporating militaries, critical national infrastructure and big business at the highest decision-making level Welcome to CDANS, which features the most senior-level international speaker faculty of any event of its kind – including leaders of the most prominent military cyber commands, intelligence services,…
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03 – 04 April, 2012 London, UK Move your Enterprise Security Operation from the responsive to the preventative. Enterprise security is fast becoming a business critical issue for many organisations around the globe. Recent high profile cases including the IMF, Citigroup, Sony, Apple, and the UK Office of National Statistics highlight both the apparent vulnerability of these…
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