North Korea had penetrated into the internal networks of the South Korean affiliates of two conglomerates and subsequently stole and deleted an approximate 42,000 documents including some containing military information. According to the National Police Agency (NPA), in July 2014 the North started hacking the networks of South Korean telecoms giant...
South Korean Spy Agency will hold an emergency meeting to look into the government agencys readiness against potential cyber terror threats from the North. The meeting will be held on Tuesday and will be convened by Choi Jong-il, National Intelligence Service (NIS) third deputy chief in charge of industrial intelligence and...
South Chinas Guangdong Provincial government has displayed a series of espionage cases involving overseas secret agencies. The exhibition conducted last Wednesday showed that along with rapid development of cyber technology, the internet has become a major tool for overseas spys to gather intelligence and incite defection, Chinese Sina news daily reported...
Singapores Ministry of Defence commissioned the Army Battlefield Internet (ABI) enhanced by the Software Defined Radio (SDR) at Stagmont Camp, held in conjunction with the Signal Formation 50th Anniversary Parade on March 4. Speaking at the parade, Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen noted that with the SDR, soldiers will...
The US Department of Defense will invite vetted outside hackers to test cybersecurity of some public DoD websites as part of a pilot project in April. ‘Hack the Pentagon is modelled after similar competitions known as ‘bug bounties conducted by US firms to discover gaps in the security of their networks,...
The Pentagon has accelerated the anti-IS campaign with the new cyber war tactics to be used against Islamic States widespread computer networks. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told AFP today that the US-led coalition is working to disrupt IS's command chain "to cause them to lose confidence in their networks
Google and Facebook besides several unnamed corporations are interested in switching their internet traffic between Europe and South America to a new undersea cable that will bypass America being set up by the Brazilian telecom firm Telebras. The US$ 250 million cable project which was announced after the US spying of the Brazilian president and government was made public will earn money by selling communications bandwidth to entities who do not want their internet traffic to be routed through America, the Brazilian Communications Minister Andre Figueirdo said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday
South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore appear nine times more vulnerable to cyber-attack than other Asian economies. “We're seeing a huge shift in defense focus across the region as more than half of global container traffic now moves through Asia-Pacific waters, and regional navies are building up to defend these economic lifelines
The US reportedly had developed a plan for a cyberattack on Iran in case negotiations to deter Tehrans nuclear program failed. “The existence of Nitro Zeus was uncovered in the course of reporting for “Zero Days,” a documentary that will be first shown Wednesday at the Berlin Film Festival,” the
Senegal has recently detained two suspected jihadists, radicalized overseas by the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) using Securiports watch-list of wanted persons while transiting the nations Dakar airport. According to the media report, Senegals Intelligence Services requested that the name of a suspected terrorist be entered into the Securiport Watch-List, which successfully identified him upon his arrival in the country, Securiport said in a statement Tuesday
The South Korean government offices have upgraded the Information Operation Condition (InfoCon) cyber threat warning level fearing cyber-attacks from North Korea. Following the North Korean long-range missile launch and closing of Kaesong Industrial complex, the South has increased its cyber threat level for a second time in less than a month,
CACI International Inc and Virginia Techs Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology have entered into a partnership to develop the next generation of technology leaders in cyber-physical system security. During the five-year partnership, CACI will be an anchor partner in the Hume Centers Cyber-Physical System Security (CPSS) program, with a focus on cyber security for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)