Category: CyberWarfare / ExoWarfare

Too few cybersecurity professionals is a gigantic problem for 2019 Robert Ackerman@BobAckerman As the new year begins gaining steam, there is ostensibly a piece of good news on the cyber front. Major cyberattacks have been in a lull in recent months, and still are. The good tidings are fleeting, however. Attacks typically come in waves.…

So stellt sich Startrocket Werbung am Nachthimmel vor. (Screenshot: Vimeo/Sitnikov, t3n) by Brittany A. Roston – Jan 16, 2019 A Russian startup called StartRocket is working on a terrible idea: space billboards that glow from low Earth orbit. The company hopes to one day offer these space billboards to corporate customers, enabling them to display…

By Eduard Kovacs Researchers from Kaspersky Lab’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS CERT) have found significant overlaps in GreyEnergy and Zebrocy activity, both of which were previously linked to Russia. GreyEnergy is a threat actor that is believed to be a successor of the notorious BlackEnergy group and experts estimate that it…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday announced the launch of Amazon WorkLink, a service that enables organizations to provide employees easy and secure access to internal websites and applications from their mobile devices without the need for a VPN or custom browser. When employees install Amazon WorkLink on their mobile devices, they can access their…

In a swimming pool in Krasnoyarsk, Russia a robot prototype prepares for an arctic journey. The robot is small enough, the preparations modest enough, that people swim laps as normal in the other half of the pool. This new tethered machine, with a quadcopter-inspired body, is built to scout the waters of Siberia, first for…

There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: prosthetics, corneas, firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge. You can even 3D-print a life-size replica of a human head — and not just for Hollywood. Forbes reporter Thomas Brewster commissioned a 3D-printed model of his own head to test the face unlocking systems on a range of…

Russia’s nuclear-capable “doomsday” drone, named Poseidon by Russia and Kanyon by the U.S., is seen in this simulation played by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his state of the nation address, on March 1. RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE   Moscow has reportedly begun testing an underwater nuclear weapon that has been touted as invincible by…

The Neural Compute Stick will retail for $100   by Andrew Tarantola Ahead of its first AI developers conference in Beijing, Intel has announced it’s making the process of imparting intelligence into smart home gadgets and other network edge devices faster and easier thanks to the company’s latest invention: the Neural Compute Stick 2. Edge…

Watch as Kevin Mitnick shows how a malicious USB charging cable can be used by hackers:    

Die weltweit leistungsfähigsten Rechnersysteme werden als Supercomputer bezeichnet. Die meisten dieser digitalen Giganten finden ihren Einsatz in der Industrie. Hier berechnen sie u.a. komplexe Simulationen. Die Infografik von Statista zeigt die Rechenleistung der leistungsstärksten Supercomputer weltweit im November 2018. Der Rechner “Summit” vom Hersteller IBM erzielt eine Leistung von rund 143.500 TeraFLOPS (21,23 Billiarden FLOPS,…

By Ionut Arghire on January 24, 2019 A recently discovered PDF exploit used steganography to hide malicious JavaScript code in images embedded in PDF files, according to exploit analysis firm EdgeSpot. Steganography is a method of hiding information within files, and has been long used by cybercriminals in malicious attacks. The powerful exploit obfuscation technique…

R3D2 (not: R2D2) … laying the groundwork for a revolutionary global space-based internet, validating a resilient sensor and data transport layer in low Earth orbit   New Zealand-based space company Rocket Lab said it plans to launch a satellite for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) next month from the company’s main launch complex…

von JOANA EKRUTT und CHRISTIAN UNGER — DIENSTAG, 22. JANUAR 2019 | BERLINER MORGENPOST   “Der Raum, in dem Deutschland seinen Kampf gegen Hacker und Cyberkriminelle gewinnen will, ist gerade so groß wie ein Klassenzimmer.” “Die deutsche Cyberabwehr ist ein Flickenteppich. Neben dem BSI haben Polizei und Nachrichtendienste eigene Cyber-Abteilungen, in München arbeitet ein Zentrum…

By Eduard Kovacs on January 21, 2019   Hackers believed to be associated with the Russian government targeted the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, court documents show. The DNC, the formal governing body for the U.S. Democratic Party, was targeted by hackers in 2015 and 2016, before the presidential…

By Kevin Townsend on January 18, 2019   Venture capital firm Strategic Cyber Ventures (SCV) considers itself a part of the overall security industry. “First and foremost we are cyber operators,” it states on its website. “We advance cybersecurity through expert investment in synergistic teams and technology solving the world’s security problems.” This week it…

Space is a hostile environment. Most of the hostility is inherent — a void cannot itself be accommodating to humans, and the projects that do sustain human life in orbit do so by creating tiny livable pockets, encased in proverbial tin cans. That space could be a vector for other threats became clear from the…

The kill chain, the phishing attack and the broken trust graph Anshu Sharma – Jan 17, 2019 The Wall Street Journal published an explosive story about how state-sponsored Russian hackers used a variety of techniques and a spider web of compromised accounts to ultimately gain access to the control infrastructure that monitors and controls the flow…