Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate. Beyond its rusted bars is a collection of radio towers, abandoned buildings and power lines bordered by a dry-stone wall. This sinister location is the focus of a mystery which stretches back to the height of the Cold War.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run
We should take from this recent attack a renewed determination for more urgent collective action. We need the tech sector, customers, and governments to work together to protect against cybersecurity attacks. More action is needed, and it’s needed now. In this sense, the WannaCrypt attack is a wake-up call for all of us. We recognize our responsibility to
The event expands on the DoD 'Hack the Pentagon' bug bounty program by broadening the participation pool from U.S. citizens to include "white hat" hackers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
"The sharing of individual indicators of compromise without context leaves practitioners asking more questions than having them answered," Intel Security Group vice president Scott Montgomery said at a March 9 hearing of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee.
https://fcw.com/articles/2017/03/09/info-sharing-context-industry.aspx
Boston, Mass.-based Rapid7 can, effective immediately, assign CVE identifiers to vulnerabilities found in its own products and software from other vendors, regardless if the issues have been disclosed by Rapid7 employees or third-party experts.
http://www.securityweek.com/rapid7-appointed-cve-numbering-authority
Microsoft, Intel, and IBM are three of the most vocal companies that opposed China’s plans to access proprietary source code of software and technology products in order to make sure that they’re hackerproof or do not include backdoors.
The latest wearable tech to get people talking isn’t an activity tracker or a watch. It’s a glove that gives the wearer an entirely new set of fingerprints, fooling even the best fingerprint scanners on the market.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-11-12/new-3-d-printed-glove-can-dupe-fingerprint-scanners
Secure financial messaging service Swift has warned member banks of a fresh wave of attempted and successful cyber heists.
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450303444/Swift-warns-banks-of-fresh-wave-of-cyber-heists
Cyber attacks aren’t just an IT problem.
The CSIAC is a DoD-sponsored Center of Excellence in the fields of Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, Software Engineering, Modeling & Simulation, and Knowledge Management & Information Sharing.Learn More
| Phone: | 800-214-7921 |
| Email: | i...@csiac.org |
| Address: | 266 Genesee St. Utica, NY 13502 |
