Items Tagged with "China"
Concerted Chinese Government Attacks or Just Another Day?
October 01, 2012 Added by:Marc Quibell
Front page news headlines today: "Chinese Hackers Breach White House!" For a split second there I was almost concerned; and then after reading I thought to myself...blah another false alarm. What did I expect?
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Energy Sector Cyber Espionage: Chinese Hackers are not Alone
September 29, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Since last month a new campaign of cyber attacks have hit the Energy sector, all is started with the incidents to Saudi Aramco and RasGas companies, in both cases a malware infected internal networks without impacting on the production systems...
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Death Match: Peter the Great Versus Sun Tzu
September 21, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The paper, “Peter the Great Versus Sun Tzu” alleges that a comparison can be made between the varying actors in malware creation. They have broken this down into a battle royal between the “Asians” and the “Eastern Europeans” which is just patently stupid...
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Microsoft Disrupts Nitol Botnet: Malware Hidden in Supply Chain
September 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Cybercriminals are exploiting a new way to spread malware by preloading malicious code inside counterfeit software deployed in computers that are offered for sale. To give you an idea of the phenomenon, 20% of the PCs researchers bought from an unsecure supply chain were infected with malware...
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Lessons in the Evolution of Compliance in China
August 16, 2012 Added by:Thomas Fox
As Chinese companies engage with partners, globally and locally, their internal and external business practices are evolving. The article “The Myths of Gift Giving” found that many Chinese companies now put greater emphasis on professionalism and building trust and confidence in business capabilities...
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Huawei and Cyber Espionage: A Question of Trust But Verify
August 06, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
We, the US, have unfortunately set ourselves up in a “pay less” mindset that has ha the military buying cheap hardware for missile systems that in the end, failed to launch. Do you want to have the same happen to your router or other hardware that your company relies on? Never mind the whole espionage thing...
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China Has Backdoor Access to Eighty-Percent of Communications
July 16, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Former Pentagon analyst F. Michael Maloof warns that the Chinese government has backdoor access to as much as eighty-percent of the worlds telecom traffic, giving the regime access to sensitive communications made possible by equipment from two Chinese based telecom giants - Huawei Technologies and ZTE...
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MMarketPay.A Android Malware Found in the Wild
July 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Researchers have discovered a new malware strain targeting Android devices that is designed to make unauthorized purchases from infected units. The malware has been detected as being spread by at least nine different application markets and may have infected as many as one-hundred thousand users...
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Huawei Boasts of Remote Data Interception Capabilities
June 19, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Embedding these capabilities in any network means…(that) they can then intercept and control those networks... I am so worried about Chinese cyber warfare threats, their abilities to monitor and remotely shut down international communications networks, including critical infrastructure networks"...
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Concerns Mount over North Korean Cyber Warfare Capabilities
June 11, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
North Korean operatives have been detected launching cyber attacks on Incheon International Airport systems and also spreading a virus planted in gaming programs intended to transform user's machines in zombies for a large botnet to launch DDoS attacks...
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South Korea Moves to Improve Cybersecurity Posture
June 11, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"To the North, it is attractive to develop cyber capabilities as it does not cost much money to establish and maintain cyber units. Another reason is it is very difficult to trace down the origin of cyber attacks, which can be a good excuse when it is blamed for any cyber attack"...
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Philippine - China Cyber War: Silic Leader Doxed and Frustrated
June 03, 2012 Added by:Jay Turla
A few weeks ago, busabos from the Anonymous #OccupyPhilippines defaced two government websites from China and posted the pictures and details of Wang Lei a.k.a y0c0 smart, the leader of the Silic Group Hacker Army and the admin of blackbap.com which is the forum site of Silic Group Hacker Army...
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To Backdoor or Not?
June 03, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
There is speculation of purposeful backdoor implementations for monitoring by the US government in the name of national security. If there is the ability for a government to monitor communications, how can we be assured that another government is not using the same means, but for different purpose?
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Chinese-Made US Military Chip: Backdoor or Debugging Function?
May 29, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
News has been circulating on internet about a microchip used by the US military and manufactured in China that contains a secret "backdoor" that makes possible remote control of devices utilizing it. Security expert Robert Graham has declared that the bug is merely for debugging operations...
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Symantec's Analysis of the ZTE Android Backdoor Vulnerability
May 24, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The worst-case scenario here is an attacker who tricks the user into installing a malicious application that takes advantage of this privilege escalation flaw. Once the application has full access to the device, the attacker can install, delete, monitor, and modify the device..."
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ZTE Confirms Backdoor Vulnerability in Android Devices
May 22, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"ZTE's Score M ships with an application featuring a hardcoded password that gives the user... administrator-level access. Running the program with the password spawns a root shell prompt on the Linux-powered mobes, allowing the phone to be completely taken over..."