NCC Group Research Director Andy Davis likes to test USB host security; over the years, Davis has “identified over 100 bugs covering all the major operating systems.” He said most vendors typically respond with “Thank you for the bug, but as you need physical access to plug in your rogue device, the impact is actually quite low.” Yet Davis continued researching USB security, giving presentations such…
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Forget China: Iran's Hackers Are America's Newest Cyber…
Foreign Policy (blog) Less than two years later, security experts and U.S. intelligence officials are alarmed by how quickly Iran has managed to develop its cyber warfare capabilities — and by how much it's willing to use them. For several years, Iran was believed to … |
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US Military: Forget cold war — Here comes cyber war
DigitalJournal.com Strangely enough, the single most successful cyber attack in history is usually attributed to the United States. During the war in Kosovo, when US military aircraft had to bomb targets in the capital, US military hackers infiltrated Serbian Air Defense … |
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Forget the NSA: Your Tech Gadgets Are Spying on You
TechNewsDaily Take, for example, the Flame (aka Flamer, aka Skywiper) malware toolkit of 2012. That piece of mega-malware was spread from USB to USB, infecting hundreds of machines running Windows' XP, Vista and 7 operating systems. Once infected, hackers used … |