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News Burst: Experts dismiss threat of cyber attacks
News Speculation that anti-capitalist activists will organise Internet demonstrations and cyber attacks on companies along with demonstrations in Seattle -- home of Microsoft -- and London, were dismissed as unlikely.
[November 29, 1999, 11:56]
Increasing Cyber Security Readiness With Adaptive Threat Management: Essential Insights for Strengthening the Federal Response to Cyber Attacks
White Papers Unfortunately, this dependence on cyberspace leaves agencies vulnerable to cyber attacks. By leveraging existing network infrastructures, Juniper Networks Adaptive Threat Management Solutions enable federal agencies to realize a greater return on...
[July 13, 2009, 1:21]
RIPA could cause new wave of cyber attacks
News But Caspar Bowden, former director of FIPR, warned that introduction of the legislation could lead to a new wave of cyber attacks. The introduction of legislation to crack down on criminals using encryption to hide their tracks could also leave...
[August 16, 2006, 10:20]
Indian officials accuse China of cyber attacks
Blog The Times of India claim echoed comments made to me at the recent Infosecurity Europe 2008 by Alan Paller, the director of research for the SANS Institute, who said that 25 countries were all engaged in some form of cyber intelligence gathering...
[May 6, 2008, 12:38]
RIPA could cause new wave of cyber attacks
Talkback Hi Myles, That's an interesting point - do you know when that ruling was made? We're aware of a couple of cases where people have been acquitted of charges after Trojan horses were found on their computers, but that was back in 2003.http://www.out...
[August 18, 2006, 17:01]
RIPA could cause new wave of cyber attacks
Talkback This excuse was once used as a defence in a paedophilia case, it has now been ruled that you are responsible for what you do and what happens on your own PC, if you do not make adequate protection available on your pc and you lose the passwords or...
[August 18, 2006, 13:57]
Defending the Nation's Lawmakers Against Cyber Threats and Attacks
White Papers As an experienced user of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), the information security group for a legislative body was looking to the future. It wanted to improve its IDS detection accuracy, attack coverage, and performance and reduce its...
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
A Year Ago: Cybergang 'Gunmen' aim for media
News 'United Loan Gunmen' continue cyber attacks on media sites, while keeping identities secret Attrition.org has a running list of defacements and is frequently contacted by cyber vandals wanting to show off their latest achievements.
[September 19, 2000, 7:00]
Cyberattacks target UK's national infrastructure
News Sustained cyber-espionage attacks are being waged on companies that play a key role in the Britain's national infrastructure, a UK cyber-defence chief has warned. The use of cyber-techniques is relatively easy, cheap and low risk in terms of being...
[October 30, 2008, 6:30]
Hack attack on capitalism... not likely
News Speculation that anti-capitalist activists will organise Internet demonstrations and cyber attacks on British companies were dismissed as unlikely although some disruption is expected. Security consultant Ian Johnston-Bryden of Oceanus Security...
[November 29, 1999, 16:25]
Clinton to propose Net security centre
News A statement to be issued by the group calls for the establishment of "a mechanism for the systematic and protected sharing" of information on cyber attacks, security vulnerabilities and countermeasures.
[February 15, 2000, 14:25]
Nato creates cyber-defence command
News Nato is creating a cyber-defence command to protect its allies against crippling online attacks on national infrastructures. The Cyber Defence Management Authority (CDMA) will co-ordinate cyber-defence among Nato allies after its formation was...
[April 9, 2008, 9:30]
Cyber terrorism 'merely a theory'
News The director, Rich Mogull, told journalists that despite the incidence of high-profile digital attacks, cyber terrorism is a phenomenon that has never occurred. Mogull maintains the argument is largely academic -- it doesn't matter who's attacking...
[November 11, 2003, 8:10]
Denial-of-Service: How big is this threat?
News Addressing a Senate sub-committee of cyber crime last week, Freeh said the attacks against Yahoo! Take me back to the Cyber terrorism special In short, even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber-intrusions, the problem is...
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
Hackers and the evolution of the Web
News How the cyber vandals zapped Yahoo! But hackers are far from being solely the cyber-terrorists that the media's brush often paints them to be. Take me back to the Cyber terrorism special You've read the headlines: "A frenzy of hacking attacks.
[April 6, 2000, 13:41]
US reveals plans to hit back at cyber threats
News The US Air Force Cyber Command is developing capabilities to inflict denial of service, confidential data loss, data manipulation, and system integrity loss on its adversaries, and to combine these with physical attacks, according to a senior US...
[April 2, 2008, 17:27]
Experts divided over cyber-terrorist threat
News Cyber attacks are not a theoretical possibility or even a remote probability — it's a no-brainer that there is [increased threat]", said Chertoff. Security experts are divided over the best way to address cyber threats to critical national...
[April 9, 2008, 11:19]
Hacking Techniques in Wired Networks
White Papers Cyber attacks have become a more and more serious threat to the society. The paper focuses on the objectives, principles, functionalities and characteristics of different types of hacking techniques in wired networks, and provides in-depth...
[June 9, 2006, 1:00]
A Year Ago: Clinton to propose Net security centre
News A statement to be issued by the group calls for the establishment of "a mechanism for the systematic and protected sharing" of information on cyber attacks, security vulnerabilities and countermeasures.
[February 15, 2001, 6:04]
How the cyber vandals zapped Yahoo!
News offline Monday was gaining in popularity among cyber vandals. A denial of service attack is a form of cyber attack that blocks Internet traffic from reaching a particular company or Internet service. CERT/CC tracks and responds to network attacks.
[February 8, 2000, 8:14]
