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Defense Officials Tell Congress Rules of Cyber Warfare Far From Settled
USNI News The United States' adversaries see cyber warfare as a potential American vulnerability in a military engagement, the Pentagon's number two civilian told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said, “In terms … DoD Officials Say Cyber Funding Needs Will Remain |
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The Equation Group’s ability to reprogram hard-drive firmware leaves corporate security pros unable to trust the devices because they can’t tell whether disks have been compromised or not.
“Once the hard drive gets infected with this malicious payload, it’s impossible to scan its firmware,” says Igor Soumenkov, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. “To put it simply: for most hard drives there are functions to write into the hardware firmware area, but there are no functions to read it back. It means that we are practically blind, and cannot detect hard drives that have been infected by this malware.”
Beyond that, the tampering Equation Group does with the firmware can survive reformatting the disk and reinstalling the operating system, giving it “extreme persistence,” and providing invisible, persistent storage inside the hard drive, according to the Kaspersky report on the Equation Group.
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The U.S. Department of Justice should back off its request for Microsoft to turn over a suspect’s digital documents stored on a server in Ireland, or be prepared for other governments demanding documents stored on U.S. servers, the company’s general counsel said.
The DOJ’s ongoing search warrant for email and other documents stored at a Dublin server farm risks exposing U.S. records to foreign law enforcement agencies and foments distrust around the world in U.S. tech companies, Microsoft Brad Smith and a group of allies in the Irish search warrant fight argued.
“Everybody wants to have their rights protected by their own law,” Smith said at a Microsoft-sponsored event in New York City Monday. “Try telling an American that their rights are no longer going to be protected by the Constitution, they’re no longer going to be protected by U.S. law; they’re going to be protected by Irish law or Chinese law or Brazilian law.”
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