Cybersecurity & Espionage Articles
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Original article at SecurityBoulevard.com
Ponemon Institute recently surveyed 627 IT and IT security practitioners in the United States to understand how organizations are addressing cyber risks associated with insider threats – such as negligent or malicious employees. Original article at Investopedia
Corporate espionage is probably not what you think of when you hear the word spy. It's not Sean Connery with his debonair manner, nor is it Tom Cruise hanging from suspension cable; sometimes it's as simple as a man in a bathrobe sitting in front of a computer with a touchtone phone beside it. Google found out that espionage can "allegedly" be a sovereign state seeking to quash dissidents. We'll look at both the fact and fiction surrounding the world of the corporate spy. (From godfathers to perps, familiarize yourself with the "criminal elements" creeping around Wall Street, in Handcuffs And Smoking Guns: The Criminal Elements Of Wall Street.) Original article posted at Engadget
The US isn't just skittish about American companies using equipment from Chinese companies in their 5G networks -- it might force companies to avoid Chinese involvement altogether. Wall Street Journal sources claim that the Trump administration is considering a requirement that 5G cellular gear for the US must be designed and made outside of China. To that end, officials are reportedly asking telecom firms if they can produce US-oriented equipment elsewhere. Original article posted at BusinessInsider.com
An Office of the Inspector General report says that a hacker accessed the network of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA in April 2018 by targeting an unauthorized Raspberry Pi, a small computer that is often used to make DIY projects. Original article at WTOP.com
Part 2: A real spy is never who you think they are Part 3: The future of spying in Washington Every day, in the predawn hours, long before official Washington, D.C. stirs from its slumber, the quiet rumble of transit begins deep beneath the city, in the streets, on its waterways and in the skies. It grows, hour by hour, to a full-blown symphony of organized chaos, punctuated by voices, horns, sirens and motorcades, as the city of 700,000 swells to more than one million. Waves of civil servants, military and law enforcement officers, business people, students, diplomats and tourists saturate the city. That is the scene on a typical weekday in the world’s most powerful city — whose business revolves around secret meetings, information and documents. Woven into that orderly bedlam are sophisticated networks of foreign nationals whose sole purpose is to steal secrets. They are spies. Original article at Mashable
What kind of a LinkedIn user are you? The kind who only accepts "connect" requests from people you know? Or a blanket accepter who connects to everyone who asks? Unluckily for the American public, there are plenty of members of the U.S. government and political intelligentsia who fall into the latter camp! Which makes LinkedIn a prime hunting ground for... foreign spies?! Original article at Computing.co.uk
Cyber security awareness, no matter who you speak to and what they're selling, is not a precise science. It's a war of several key battles, as delegates were reminded at Infosecurity 2019 in London today. "I hate security awareness training," began Flavius Plesu, former head of IS at Bank of Ireland and now CEO of his own security training firm. Quoting ICO data stating that more than 90 per cent of cyber attacks target human behaviour and less than 10 per cent have a technical basis, Pleus complained that "the traditional approach" of teaching employees about hacking and password or identity security is a "false assumption". Original article at Yahoo News
China warned students and academics on Monday about risks involved in studying in the United States, pointing to limits on the duration of visas and visa refusals, amid a bitter trade war and other tension between the two countries. |
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