From Mary Brown | January 13th, 2010
The Wall Street Journal online reports that Google and dozens of other organizations have experienced a rash of hacking attempts by Chinese hackers. Among those attacks reported are hacks against the gmail accounts of human rights activists. They are looking in to whether or not these efforts are supported by the Chinese government. As part of the announcement Google leadership indicates that they may close down Google China if they are not able to come to some agreement with the Chinese government about operating without sanctions or censorship.
Share your thoughts on this incident and the general concept of governments engaging in various forms of cyberintelligence gathering.
Tags: censorship, cyberintelligence, hackers, hacking Chinese government
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From Mary Brown | September 17th, 2009
Riva Richmond reports on the latest SAN research which indicates that organizations are still focused on mitigating risks related to operating system threats while hackers are focused on application vulnerabilities for commonly used applications like Adobe and Office and are, in particular, focused on leveraging web development vulnerabilities.
How would you recommend that organizations do a better job of prioritizing their risk mitigation efforts, assuming you agree with SANS and their partners who participated in this research?
Share your ideas.
Tags: applications, hackers, mitigating risks, Research, Web development
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From Mary Brown | July 15th, 2009
My recent post on the decentralized denial of service attacks against (primarily) government sites in the US and South Korea included some discussion on the role of zombies or bots in contributing to the success of these kinds of attacks.
Commtouch, in their Q2 report on Internet Threat Trends, demonstrates that this problem of large numbers of computers that are under the control of hackers, continues to grow.
What can the information security profession contribute to society in terms of helping to reverse this obviously dangerous trend? Share your thoughts.
Tags: bots, Commtouch, hackers, information security profession, Internet Threat Trends, zombies
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