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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 283 days ago
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/chinese-waging-online-spy-war/2008/02/09/1202234232007.htmlBy Jason KoutsoukisThe AgeFebruary 10, 2008CHINESE computer hackers have launched several targeted attacks on highly classified Federal Government computer networks, prompting an internal review of IT security.The cyber attacks are believed to be part of a co-ordinated international espionage operation to glean intelligence from Western countries.Senior Australian intelligence figures are also believed to be c read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 282 days ago
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-shuttlespy1208feb12,0,4004944.storyBy Robert BlockSentinel Space EditorFebruary 11, 2008 Federal officials Monday arrested a former Boeing engineer on charges of stealing trade secrets from the space-shuttle program, Delta IV rocket and other projects and sending them to agents of the Chinese government.In an indictment filed in California, prosecutors accused Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 72, a shuttle engineer, with acting as an agent of the Chinese i read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 219 days ago
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Corporations are woefully unprepared to counter attempts at corporate espionage, say experts who perform vulnerability assessments designed to uncover security weaknesses. U.S. corporations lose as much as $300 billion a year to hacking, cracking, physical security breaches, and other criminal activity, according to Ira Winkler, author of Spies Among Us (Wiley, 2005) and president of the Internet Security Advisors Group, which performs espionage simulations and provides other services. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 203 days ago
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Read Brian Krebs's latest story on washingtonpost.com: "White House Plans Proactive Cyber-Security Role for Spy Agencies." America's spy agencies for the first time would be tasked with gathering intelligence on threats to the nation's computer networks under a policy set to be detailed by the White House next week, a senior administration official said Wednesday. Speaking at a security conference in Washington, the official said the Bush administration wants to harness the intelligence community's offensi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 133 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:36:04 -0500 (CDT)http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/washington/10spy.htmlBy NEIL A. LEWISThe New York TimesJuly 10, 2008WASHINGTON - Gregg W. Bergersen was a Navy veteran who liked to gamble on occasion but spent far more time worrying about how to earn some serious money after he left his career as an analyst at the Defense Department.At 51 and supporting a wife and a child in the Virginia suburbs, he wondered how he could get himself ca read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 114 days ago
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Whose free speech is it anyway?Swedish spy authorities have taken legal action against a Brussels-based blogger who published a classified document purporting to prove they snooped on individual Swedes more than a decade ago.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 114 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:18:07 -0500 (CDT)http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209900038By Thomas ClaburnInformationWeekJuly 29, 2008In an apparent mistranslation of the concept of hospitality, Chinese authorities have ordered foreign-owned hotels to install Internet monitoring equipment to spy on hotel guests during the Olympic Games, U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, charged on Tuesday."I am very disappointed t read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 88 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:14:03 -0500 (CDT)http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug08/6593By Sally AdeeFirst Published August 2008IEEE SpectrumEarlier this year, someone at the United States Department of Justice smuggled sensitive financial data out of the agency by embedding the data in several image files. Defeating this exfiltration method, called steganography, has proved particularly tricky, but one engineering student has come up with a way to make espionage work agai read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 41 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:03:54 -0500 (CDT)http://www.voipplanet.com/trends/article.php/3776136By Adam StoneVOIP Planet.comOctober 6, 2008Can someone eavesdrop on your enterprise VoIP calls? Almost certainly. It hasn't been talked about much in the press but the simple fact is, these networks are vulnerable to snooping.Jason Ostrom is ready to prove it.As director of Sipera Systems' VIPER (Voice over IP Exploitation Research) Lab, Ostrom has been busy devising wa read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 14 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 03:02:58 -0600 (CST)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5102160.eceBy Michael EvansDefence EditorThe TimesNovember 7, 2008The unmasking of an Iranian spy who was working as a British general.s personal interpreter has become an embarrassing espionage fiasco raising questions about the screening for sensitive military posts.Corporal Daniel James, 45, who had been security-vetted to work alongside General Sir David Richards w read more »
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