Cyber Security

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Cyber Security in the news this week:

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/22/were-inv ... cisco.html

http://www.thestreet.com/story/13431584 ... -2016.html

http://www.army.mil/article/161219/Army ... rsecurity/

http://fortune.com/2016/01/21/malwareby ... ing-raise/

http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story ... 2016-01-22

http://www.caller.com/news/local/law-en ... 41501.html

http://www.cio.com/article/3025452/cybe ... rcise.html

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/19/the- ... l-devices/

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/art ... ty-dilemma

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... davos-dur/

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity ... encryption

http://www.cso.com.au/article/592465/wh ... -startups/



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"Everyone uses Fitbits these days and they are so vulnerable," Abarca said. "They are connected to our phones, if you do corporate work on your phone, I hack your Fitbit and I have access to your phone and I can log in to your corporate network."


“In a poll of more than 1,100 security executives around the world, 91 percent of respondents consider their organization to be vulnerable to internal or external data threats.”


“In a nutshell it found that both public and private sector entities were lagging behind the likes of China and the US in terms of cyber-warfare preparedness.”

“Aside from conversations with the Obama administration and representatives from the governments of Azerbaijan and Argentina, among others, Mr. Netanyahu met with executives from Intel, IBM, Dell and HP on Wednesday and Thursday at the annual summit to discuss their role in strengthening Israel’s cybersecurity.”

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This drama is palpable.

Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

11) Particularly if any of those operations targeted elections.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

10) That could have significant foreign policy consequences. Particularly if any of those operations targeted US allies.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

9) This leak is likely a warning that someone can prove US responsibility for any attacks that originated from this malware server.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

8) Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility. Here's why that is significant:
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

7) Why did they do it? No one knows, but I suspect this is more diplomacy than intelligence, related to the escalation around the DNC hack.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

6) What's new? NSA malware staging servers getting hacked by a rival is not new. A rival publicly demonstrating they have done so is.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

5) Knowing this, NSA's hackers (TAO) are told not to leave their hack tools ("binaries") on the server after an op. But people get lazy.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

4) Here's where it gets interesting: the NSA is not made of magic. Our rivals do the same thing to us -- and occasionally succeed.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

3) This is how we steal their rivals' hacking tools and reverse-engineer them to create "fingerprints" to help us detect them in the future.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

2) NSA is often lurking undetected for years on the C2 and ORBs (proxy hops) of state hackers. This is how we follow their operations.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

1) NSA traces and targets malware C2 servers in a practice called Counter Computer Network Exploitation, or CCNE. So do our rivals.
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Edward Snowden ‏@Snowden 16h16 hours ago

The hack of an NSA malware staging server is not unprecedented, but the publication of the take is. Here's what you need to know: (1/x)