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FireEye surveyed over 800 cybersecurity executives from around the world and most of them believe cybersecurity solutions are either inexpensive or their cost is reasonable for the value they provide. [Read More]
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pushed the idea that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee servers. [Read More]
Indiana will be home to the Midwest’s first National Guard cyber battalion, according to officials. [Read More]
Google patches Chrome zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited to deliver malware in attacks sharing similarities with previous Korea-linked attacks. [Read More]
The China-linked threat group APT41 has been using a new piece of malware named MESSAGETAP to intercept SMS traffic on the servers of mobile operators. [Read More]
Florida's top elections officer insisted that her state's voting systems are adequately prepared for electronic attacks despite persistent concerns that hackers could again infiltrate the state's voting systems. [Read More]
India’s largest nuclear power plant was reportedly hit by a piece of malware that has been linked to North Korean hackers. [Read More]
Russia interfered in the 2016 election and may try to sway next year’s vote as well. But it’s not the only nation with an eye on U.S. politics. [Read More]
Russia-linked cyberspy group Fancy Bear (aka Strontium and APT28) has targeted at least 16 anti-doping and sporting organizations in a recent campaign, Microsoft reports. [Read More]
Some 2,000 websites in Georgia, including those of the president, courts, and media came under a massive cyber attack on Monday, officials and media said. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Cyberwarfare
While global corporations have been targeted by Iran-linked threat actors, the escalating tensions in recent weeks will inevitably bring more repercussions as tools and tactics change with new strategic goals.
Against the ongoing backdrop of cyber conflict between nation states and escalating warnings from the Department of Homeland Security, critical infrastructure is becoming a central target for threat actors.
We must recognize industrial cyberattacks as tactics in a new form of “economic warfare” being waged between nation-states to gain economic and political advantage without having to pay the price of open combat.
The lifting of certain sanctions may provide an alternative incentive to limit certain types of cyberwar activity.
It’s critical to recognize that there will always be virtual ways in which terrorists and other criminals can create threats that no border process or physical security program can stop.
Thomas Rid, Professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, joins the podcast to discuss the lack of nuance in the crypto debate and the future of global cyber conflict.
If there were any lingering doubts that cybersecurity is a geopolitical issue with global implications, such opinions were cast on the rocks by discussions this past week at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The overall industry tone of caution around active defenses may be calibrated to defuse the notion rather than taking the argument, buying time for other alternatives to surface.
Does a dangerous threat lie with ISIS’s possible use of cyber weapons against American critical infrastructure, financial system or other targets? Will such attacks be attempted and do the capabilities exist within ISIS to do so?
Creative disruption, where a paradigm shift in thinking replaces an existing order, may be an elusive concept but its power as a driving force of human behavior cannot be denied.
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