Cyber Weapons and International Stability: New Destabilization Threats Require New Security...
By Guy-Philippe Goldstein
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
Though cyberspace is a domain of strategic importance, cyber weapons have not yet been associated with publicly well-enunciated...
Israeli Cyber Security Firms Draw Foreign Interest
The intensification of cyberattacks on corporations and government agencies has led to a surge of new companies offering cybersecurity solutions. Israel boasts some of...
Anti-American Hackers Infiltrated U.S. Networks
The FBI reports that activist hackers linked to the group Anonymous have been accessing the computers of numerous government agencies for almost a year,...
Big Data Transfer Solution Recieves U.S. Government Authorization
Raytheon’s High Speed Guard big data transfer solution has received Cross Domain System Authorization and Authority to Operate for Secret and Below Interoperability (SABI),...
Energy Industry Threatened by Cyber Attacks
Oil and gas companies are considerable targets of cyber attacks by cybercriminals as well as state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists each day who threaten the...
Kaspersky Lab Presents New Cyber Security Solution
The numbers are astounding: 200,000 new malware-based cyber attacks are recorded daily. Over the last few days alone there have been 1,300 attacks on...
INSS Global Cyber Review – November 15th 2013
U.S.A
Obama Administration to enact changes in the command of the NSA and other cyber security agencies
Revelations from documents leaked by Edward Snowden about the...
Can a Computer Virus Communicate Through Your Speakers?
Dragos Ruiu first became suspicious when he was installing a new version of Apple's OS X onto his MacBook. Unasked, his laptop also started...
Lockheed Martin Opens New Cyber-Security Center in Australia
Lockheed Martin has officially opened a Security Intelligence Centre (SIC) in the Canberra suburb of Kingston. Establishment of the new SIC continues Lockheed Martin’s...
Smart Cloud Service Receives U.S. Government Authorization
IBM’s SmartCloud for Government, infrastructure as-a-service cloud platform, has been granted Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program...
Hi-Tech Tattoos Could Replace Personal Passwords
Motorola has announced it is looking at alternatives to traditional passwords in the form of tattoos, in a bid to make logging into online...
Day-Zero Attacks Against Microsoft Office Successfully Blocked
Kaspersky Lab’s Automatic Exploit Prevention (AEP) technology successfully blocks attacks via the recently discovered system vulnerability in Microsoft Office software. Microsoft reported knowledge of...
Israel Hosts Major Cyber-War Simulation
The cyber-simulation was held at the Tel Aviv University's SIMLAB unit. This is the unit's first simulation.
The SIMLAB simulation unit, headed by Dr. Haim...
Stuxnet Virus Detected in Russian Nuclear Facility
Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Antivirus has revealed that a staffer at a Russian nuclear plant informed him that the infection that was introduced to...
Britain May Hire Hackers For Cyber Defense
Britain may recruit convicted computer hackers to a new military unit dedicated to combating cyber attacks, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said. Hammond announced plans...
Survey: Most Companies Use In-House Resources for IT Security Training
Kaspersky Lab today reveals that most companies assign their own Tech Support Department to train company employees in matters of IT security, rather than...
October Cyber Security Report: A Rise in Ransomware Attacks
The ESET cyber security report for October reveals a troubling rise in the use of the Filecoder malware against small and medium businesses in...
Veteran Israeli Company Enters the Cyber-Defense Market
By iHLS NewsDesk
The Israeli company Magal, known for its physical defense systems, is now entering the cyber-defense market as well. The company will supply...
2013 Cyber Security Report: One Serious Incident Could Cost $649k
$649,000 is the average cost incurred by large companies in the wake of a cyber-attack, according to the 2013 Global Corporate IT Security Risks...
INSS Global Cyber Review – November 1st
Israel
Israel counters a Chinese cyber attack
Israeli Channel 2 TV News reported last Sunday Israel's counter-cyber terrorism unit managed to thwart a concerted cyber-attack and...
U.S. Company to Assist Government with Cyber Security
Lockheed Martin has established a continuous diagnostics and mitigation laboratory where they will conduct workshops to help governments with cybersecurity. The laboratory in Gaithersburg,...
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