Yearly Archives: 2019

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Cyber attacks could help trigger a war, says Marise Payne

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Foreign Minister Marise Payne has warned that the internet and cyber security are now so central to modern nations that serious hacking incidents could escalate into war.

Senator Payne, during an address to the Lowy Institute in Sydney, noted that […]

By |March 12th, 2019|Cyber News|

Former NSA Cyber Leader Now Leads Security For Fortinet

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Credits: Forbes

Phil Quade spent 34 years at the National Security Agency, rising to the role of Director, Cyber Task Force, and Special Assistant to the NSA Director for Cyber. In that role, he dealt with some of the worst actors in the […]

By |March 12th, 2019|Cyber News|

Cyber crime, cops and the law

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The increasing use of laptop and mobile phones among today’s youth has had a worrisome consequence — it has given sexual predators, paedophiles and other criminals a way to zoom in on the vulnerable targets.

Mansi Shah (name changed), a […]

By |March 12th, 2019|Cyber News|

NASA’s crap infosec could be ‘significant threat’ to space ops

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NASA’s Office of the Inspector General has once again concluded the American space agency’s tech security practices are “not consistently implemented”.

Confirmation that the US government department’s infosec abilities are not up to scratch was a repeat of last year’s […]

By |March 12th, 2019|Cyber News|

How the Swedish army is preparing to defend against cyber attacks

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The Swedish Armed Forces are stepping up their ability to defend against online attacks, with a so-called ‘cyber range’ or a training facility for cyber warfare expected to be ready within one year.

The Army’s head of cyber defence, Patrik […]

By |March 10th, 2019|Cyber News|

Russia internet freedom: Thousands protest against cyber-security bill

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A mass rally in Moscow and similar demonstrations in two other cities were called after parliament backed the controversial bill last month.

The government says the bill, which allows it to isolate Russia’s internet service from the rest of the world, […]

By |March 10th, 2019|Cyber News|

Iranian-backed hackers ransacked Citrix, swiped 6TB+ of emails, docs, secrets, says cyber-biz

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The enterprise software giant – which services businesses, the American military, and various US government agencies – said it was told by the FBI on Wednesday that miscreants had accessed Citrix’s IT systems and exfiltrated files.

According to infosec firm […]

By |March 10th, 2019|Cyber News|

Nah, National Cyber Security Centre doesn’t need its own minister, UK.gov tells Parliament

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The British government has rejected Parliamentary calls for greater ministerial control over the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an arm of secretive spy agency GCHQ.

In addition, the government affirmed that it will actively try to remain a part of […]

By |March 10th, 2019|Cyber News|

Put down the cat, coffee, beer pint, martini, whatever you’re holding, and make sure you’ve updated Chrome (unless you enjoy being hacked)

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Updated If Google Chrome is bugging you to update it right now, please stop what you’re doing, and get that upgrade.

The latest version fixes a security vulnerability (CVE-2019-5786) that can be potentially exploited by malicious webpages to hijack the software, […]

By |March 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

NX-OS-hit! Got Cisco Nexus and MDS 9000 switches? Then you’ve got patching to do, too

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Cisco has published patches for a plethora of problems with its products, including vulns that could trigger denial-of-service conditions – and a sneaky one that “could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges”.

The root vuln exists […]

By |March 7th, 2019|Cyber News|