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“Those controlling the virus can direct it from a distance,” Mr. Napelian said. “Flame is no ordinary product. This was designed to monitor selected computers.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

“This virus copies what you enter on your keyboard, it monitors what you see on your computer screen,” Mr. Napelian said in a telephone interview.

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In November last year, he was briefly placed under house arrest to prevent him from attending a goodbye party he organized for his million-dollar studio in Shanghai after police ordered it demolished.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 11:45 AM | Add Comment

But like other technologies, including license plate scanners, body cameras and GPS trackers, the gunshot-detection system has also inspired debate.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Flame would be the third major Internet weapon to have been discovered since 2010.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

The Obama administration plans to arm Italy's fleet of Reaper drone aircraft, a move that could open the door for sales of advanced hunter-killer drone technology to other allies

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Cyber security experts said the discovery publicly demonstrates what experts privy to classified information have long known: that nations have been using pieces of malicious computer code as weapons to promote their security interests for several years.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

This is how cyberweapons end up promoting peace, social media end up strengthening totalitarianism, and online filters end up improving information discovery.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 12:30 PM | Add Comment

As these weapons have become more sophisticated, the strategic and ethical questions about them have grown more urgent.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 3:30 PM | Add Comment

In this new criminal age, consumers have a responsibility to check their accounts frequently for signs of tampering and to notify the bank immediately if something seems askew.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/13/2012 8:30 AM | Add Comment

Called the National Preparedness Report, the assessment is the first of its kind released by the federal agency and was intended to serve as a baseline for preparedness.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/4/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Much of the debate about Google’s Wi-Fi sniffing veers back and forth between different perceptions of what is appropriate behavior and what isn’t.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/3/2012 5:29 PM | Add Comment

Cyberattacks are new territory for the cartels, however. Asked who was behind the hacking, Bojórquez shrugs—it might have been the cartels

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

The most visceral reaction was elicited by a question that asked whether consumers would be willing to share “information about you with the stores that you visit, when you are just browsing.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

The lapse by Atlanta-based Georgia Tech illustrates how colleges and federal arms-control regulators are often lax in enforcing Americans-only limits intended to prevent theft of military technology from U.S. campuses.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

United States officials have said that if Pakistan would not or could not strike insurgents in places like Miram Shah, the capital of North Waziristan, then the drone attacks would have to continue.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Several cautioned that it signaled a new era in which Mac users become the new target for Windows-style malware attacks.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

The more than 50 institutions that received approvals to operate remotely piloted aircraft are more varied than many outsiders and privacy experts previously knew.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

In the wake of high-profile attacks on companies like Sony and Citigroup, insurance brokers reported last summer that interest was soaring in policies to protect against civil suits and regulatory fines from data breaches.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/17/2012 4:15 PM | Add Comment

I argue that the diffusion of power away from governments is one of this century’s great political shifts. & Cyberspace is a perfect example.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 5:31 PM | Add Comment

The hackers gained access to what is known as Track 1 and Track 2 data, which includes names, card numbers and validation codes.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/2/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

“This is kind of anticlimactic,” said Bill Woodcock, whose nonprofit Packet Clearing House has been part of that campaign. “That was kind of the goal.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/1/2012 12:04 PM | Add Comment

The practice has become big business for cellphone companies, too, with a handful of carriers marketing a catalog of “surveillance fees” to police departments to determine a suspect’s location, trace phone calls and texts or provide other services.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/1/2012 6:18 AM | Add Comment

”The central concern is that the F.L.A. will fail to compel Apple to actually improve labor conditions,” Mr. Nova said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/31/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

The message called it Operation Global Blackout, and rallied Anonymous supporters worldwide to attack the Domain Name System

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/31/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

“We have checked with our colleague Mr. Gu Kaiyuan, who denied he was involved in any hacking activities,” Tencent said in its statement.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/31/2012 12:30 PM | Add Comment

MADE IN CHINA

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/30/2012 9:30 AM | Add Comment

Bain’s decision to enter China’s fast-growing surveillance industry raises questions about the direct role that American corporations play in outfitting authoritarian governments with technology

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/16/2012 7:44 AM | Add Comment

"We were vulnerable before and now we’re just more vulnerable. You can destroy physical infrastructure with a cyberattack just like you could with a bomb.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/14/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Mueller said that a terrorist had proclaimed in a recruiting video “that cyberwarfare will be the warfare of the future.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/8/2012 6:27 AM | Add Comment

“Any company that is patting themselves on the back and saying that they’re not a target or not susceptible to attack is in complete and utter denial.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/5/2012 6:28 AM | Add Comment

The attack, albeit an unsuccessful one, provides a rare glimpse into the recruiting, reconnaissance and warfare tactics used by the shadowy hacking collective.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/27/2012 6:15 AM | Add Comment

Still, the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups are calling for new protections against what the A.C.L.U. has said could be “routine aerial surveillance of American life.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2012 6:22 AM | Add Comment

The U.S. NSA and military Cyber Command are both located at Fort Meade outside Washington DC

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/10/2012 6:28 AM | Add Comment

“Cyberthreats pose a critical national and economic security concern,” he said in testimony.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/9/2012 6:53 AM | Add Comment

The international hackers group known as Anonymous turned the tables on the F.B.I. by listening in on a conference call

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/4/2012 8:23 AM | Add Comment

While today's report implies 98 new units instead of 122, it also suggests V-22 will survive for this second production run, a far better outcome than outright termination.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/3/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Anticipating this, the State Department began developing its own drone operations.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:37 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Panetta has repeatedly stated that he will preserve funding for Special Operations forces, cyberwarfare and intelligence

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/26/2012 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Recently, two research teams — one at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and the other at the University of Wisconsin, Madison — announced that they had produced a form of H5N1

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/20/2012 8:19 PM | Add Comment

The breaches at Amazon’s sites come after several other recent cyberattacks that, taken together, threaten to shake consumer confidence on the Web.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/17/2012 7:11 PM | Add Comment

Just a little Orwellian... Critics raise the alarm over U.S. police drone

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/14/2012 7:43 AM | Add Comment

One of the most notable uses of the Predator and Reaper has been in the counterterrorism role, both as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/12/2012 11:37 PM | Add Comment

Pakistan, with a security score of 41 and a nuclear complex that is undergoing rapid growth, was faulted for poor transportation security, political instability and the presence of terrorist groups

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/12/2012 6:29 AM | Add Comment

“Source code is a company’s crown jewels. Most companies put lots of locks and chains around it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/6/2012 8:05 PM | Add Comment

“Even at a trillion dollars, this is a shallower build-down than any of the last three we’ve done. It would still be the world’s most dominant military. We would be in an arms race with ourselves.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/3/2012 7:16 AM | Add Comment

Stuxnet was first discovered in June 2010 when it attacked and damaged software and equipment used in Iranian nuclear facilities

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/2/2012 9:02 AM | Add Comment

The bill authorizes $662 billion in military spending through 2012.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/1/2012 6:53 AM | Add Comment

Also according to their postings, the breach appears to have been conducted in retaliation for the arrest and imprisonment of Pfc. Bradley Manning

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/26/2011 9:08 AM | Add Comment

BIG BUSINESS: "A Pentagon public relations program that sought to transform high-profile military analysts into “surrogates” and “message force multipliers” for the Bush administration complied with Defense Department regulations and directives."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/25/2011 9:02 AM | Add Comment

“Companies don’t want to talk about cyber attacks,” Mr. Ackerman says. “All of a sudden, breaches are now going to be more visible and people are going to have to start estimating their costs.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/24/2011 9:26 AM | Add Comment

The drone shown on Iran television appeared to be in good condition, which would seem to be inconsistent with an uncontrolled landing

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/8/2011 7:50 PM | Add Comment

through 2030, the team recommended that the federal agency should work with industry and have the appropriate regulatory authority to enhance cybersecurity preparedness

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/6/2011 7:20 PM | Add Comment

Using Palantir technology, the FBI can now instantly compile thorough dossiers on U.S. citizens, tying together surveillance video outside a drugstore with credit-card transactions, cell-phone call records, e-mails, airplane travel records, and Web search

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/25/2011 8:36 AM | Add Comment

“Russia’s intelligence services are conducting a range of activities to collect economic information and technology from U.S. targets.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/4/2011 7:31 AM | Add Comment

“They’re the only treaty member of the NPT,” he said, referring to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, “that cannot convince the International Atomic Energy Agency that their program is peaceful."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/4/2011 7:30 AM | Add Comment

“The purpose of the attacks appears to be industrial espionage, collecting intellectual property for competitive advantage,” Symantec said

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/1/2011 6:20 PM | Add Comment

“This is a bit of a surprise,” said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee and a leader of the Top500 project, a list of the world’s fastest computers.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/29/2011 8:40 AM | Add Comment

Often the attacks are found to have come from Chinese Internet-protocol, or IP, addresses.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/27/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

China has strongly denied having a hand in the earlier attacks.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/26/2011 5:54 AM | Add Comment

“In a negotiation, take what you can get. And then come back for more.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/24/2011 5:55 AM | Add Comment

“These cybercapabilities are still like the Ferrari that you keep in the garage and only take out for the big race and not just for a run around town, unless nothing else can get you there.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/17/2011 6:22 PM | Add Comment

"Anonymous has been primarily using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/5/2011 8:25 AM | Add Comment

“We have a duty to protect people,” he added, “and that’s always balanced with human rights, online or offline. It’s no different now.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/26/2011 5:29 AM | Add Comment

"Yale's King likens stock volatility to a physical force, and wonders if the energy bottled up by a volatility halt won't find other unpleasant ways to dissipate."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/13/2011 8:27 AM | Add Comment

“It was a wake-up call for the entire security industry,” Mr. Hoglund said. “It probably needed to happen. I wish I didn’t have to be the sacrificial lamb.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/5/2011 5:31 AM | Add Comment

“A $100 million hit on a bank or a series of banks,” Whitehouse said. “That’s a pretty big bank robbery. And it doesn’t even make the press. It just trickles through in FBI tip sheets.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/4/2011 6:29 PM | Add Comment

“The Chinese government opposes hacking in all its manifestations.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/3/2011 6:55 PM | Add Comment

"Operation Shady RAT"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/3/2011 6:47 PM | Add Comment

"Technology companies should be barred from tailoring goods to a repressive end."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/25/2011 6:19 AM | Add Comment

"Many are still haunted by the 1993 'Black Hawk Down' debacle, in which 18 elite American troops were killed in Mogadishu..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/2/2011 5:46 AM | Add Comment

"Lulz Security has been pursued by government agencies around the world, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/26/2011 8:42 AM | Add Comment

“It won’t matter where you are in the world or who you are in the world, you’re going to be able to authenticate everyone and everything.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/25/2011 6:21 AM | Add Comment

"LulzSec’s exploits have riled others in the hacker world who object to its activities, particularly exposure of personal information of innocent Internet users."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/24/2011 5:16 AM | Add Comment

“For us, this is really a basic right,” said Mr. Braakhuis, a member of the GreenLeft party. “We consider network neutrality to be as important as freedom of the press, freedom of speech.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/23/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

"The future world of drones is here inside the Air Force headquarters at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., where hundreds of flat-screen TVs hang from industrial metal skeletons in a cavernous room, a scene vaguely reminiscent of a rave club."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/20/2011 5:17 AM | Add Comment

"Nearly everyone agrees that a mix of defenses is vital, and that even so, some hackers will still slip through."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/18/2011 5:35 AM | Add Comment

"By May 24, bank officials concluded that the data thieves had captured the names, account numbers, and e-mail addresses of about 360,000 customers."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/16/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

"The statute makes it very clear: you can’t spy on Americans."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/16/2011 5:10 AM | Add Comment

"But wherever the public goes, the government follows."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/16/2011 5:08 AM | Add Comment

"The clandestine American operations in Yemen are currently being run by the military’s Joint Special Operations Command, with the C.I.A.’s assistance and with the approval of Yemen’s fragile authoritarian government."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/15/2011 5:51 AM | Add Comment

"Underscoring the multinational nature of these rings, American law-enforcement agencies have also been putting more investigators overseas. "

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/14/2011 5:46 AM | Add Comment

"Anonymous, a loose collective that has attacked many Web sites including those of Amazon and MasterCard, says the system will make it possible to keep records of people’s online activity."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/14/2011 5:43 AM | Add Comment

"The manual clarifies the definition of who qualifies for extra protection as a legitimate member of the news media in the Internet era: prominent bloggers would count, but not people who have low-profile blogs."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/13/2011 6:27 AM | Add Comment

"The State Department, for example, is financing the creation of stealth wireless networks that would enable activists to communicate outside the reach of governments in countries like Iran, Syria and Libya..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/12/2011 7:26 AM | Add Comment

"After that attack, the World Bank briefly shut down external access to its most sensitive systems..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/12/2011 7:10 AM | Add Comment

"They were expected to be charged with forming an illegal association to attack public and corporate Web sites, a charge that carries a potential sentence of up to three years in prison."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/11/2011 1:52 AM | Add Comment

“We’re not dealing with 14-year-old hacker kids.” “We’re talking about 21st-century bank robbers — sophisticated, organized criminal gangs, located mostly in Eastern Europe and the U.S.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/10/2011 5:13 AM | Add Comment

“No public servant should face 35 years in prison for telling the truth.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/10/2011 5:11 AM | Add Comment

"The biggest beneficiary of Google’s losses appeared to be Baidu, a Chinese Internet portal."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/7/2011 5:23 AM | Add Comment

"Google tracked the attack to Jinan, China, which is the home to a Chinese military regional command center."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/4/2011 8:33 AM | Add Comment

"At the heart of the problem, experts say, is that technology has leapt far ahead of the policy debate."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/2/2011 8:45 PM | Add Comment

"This year, the Chinese government has stepped up its controls over the Internet within the country, with increased scrutiny of news and blog sites..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/2/2011 5:52 AM | Add Comment

“How do we know when it’s a hacker and when it’s the People’s Liberation Army?”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/1/2011 5:45 AM | Add Comment

“This is what repressive governments do,” he said. “This is what people who don’t want information out in the world do — they try to shut the presses.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/1/2011 5:44 AM | Add Comment

"'If intruders get the key, the seed that enables one-time passwords to be generated,' then they may have the capability to break into networks that depend on such systems to authenticate users..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2011 10:33 AM | Add Comment

“We don’t know what they went after at Lockheed,” Mr. Lewis said... “One possibility is that it’s a state actor, but it could also be criminals who are trying to exploit the company’s customers.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/28/2011 7:30 AM | Add Comment

"It was not immediately clear what kind of data, if any, was stolen by the hackers."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2011 6:36 PM | Add Comment

“It’s astonishing how this survey demonstrates that IT departments have easier access to sensitive information than CEOs,” said Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2011 10:00 PM | Add Comment

"Because some 15% of the U.S. economy is based on financial services and the markets, they should be protected on the basis of national security, he asserts."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2011 6:50 AM | Add Comment

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