Source: New York Times
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People’s Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps of cyberwarriors.
Tag Archives: Cybersecurity
Chinese army unit is seen as tied to hacking against U.S.
February 18, 2013 – 1:17 pm
Was Canada’s Delisle spying for the Russian mob?
February 7, 2013 – 12:58 pm
Brian Stewart’s piece for CBC News features Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert on the Russian cybercrime underworld.
Pentagon’s new massive expansion of ‘cyber-security’ unit is about everything except defense
January 28, 2013 – 12:04 pm
Source: Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
As the US government depicts the Defense Department as shrinking due to budgetary constraints, the Washington Post this morning announces “a major expansion of [the Pentagon's] cybersecurity force over the next several years, increasing its size more than fivefold.”
EVENT: A Global Village? Hacktivists, Cyberwarriors and International Relations
January 17, 2013 – 5:55 pm
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, former Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan and Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy will participate in a conference hosted by the International Relations Society on Saturday, 26 January 2013.
E.U. cyber security agency lists top emerging technology threats
January 8, 2013 – 10:50 am
Source: Business Insurance
The top threats in emerging technology areas include “drive-by exploits,” which is the injection of malicious code to exploit Web browser vulnerabilities, said the European Union’s cyber security agency.
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert on Me Judice
December 7, 2012 – 9:33 am
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke to Me Judice, a Dutch discussion forum, about new security issues in cyberspace.
MJM as personified evil says spyware saves lives not kills them
November 9, 2012 – 10:51 am
Source: Vernon Silver, Bloomberg
In the secretive world of surveillance technology, he goes just by his initials: MJM.
Dutch government proposes cyberattacks against…everyone
October 22, 2012 – 10:45 am
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
If the location of a particular computer cannot be determined, the Dutch police would be able to break in without ever contacting foreign authorities.
A 0-Day attack lasts on average 10 months
October 19, 2012 – 12:22 pm
Source: Paolo Passeri, Hackmageddon
A couple of days ago, two Symantec Researchers have published an interesting article (“Before We Knew It: An Empirical Study of Zero-Day Attacks In The Real World”) reporting the study of 0-Day Attacks between 2008 and 2001.
The future of cyberspace, according to the Foreign Secretaries of the U.K. and Hungary
October 2, 2012 – 3:53 pm
Source: William Hague and János Martonyi, The Independent
This week, Hungary will host a conference to drive this agenda forward “with trust and security for freedom and prosperity”.
