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Simulated Cyber Attack War Game "We Were Warned" Cyber.Shockwave - 2/20/10

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Police force more suspects to give up crypto keys

Police force more suspects to give up crypto keys:

Police have expanded their use of powers to force suspects to decrypt files by 50 per cent in the last year, figures released today reveal.… (Via The Register – Public Sector.)

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EGYPT: Cyber war among possible presidential candidates

EGYPT: Cyber war among possible presidential candidates: "
Source: Nasry Esmat, Los Angeles Times.

Egypt’s political cyber war is intensifying after hackers played havoc with the Facebook page of Gamal Mubarak, the son of President Hosni Mubarak and a possible presidential contender in 2011.

The role of cyberspace politics is expected to grow through 2011. Statistics from the international Telecommunication Union show that Egypt’s number of Internet users increased by 36% between 2008 and 2009. Facebook is the second-most-popular website in Egypt, with more than 3.5 million of Egypt’s Internet users taking part, according to Alexa, a web information company.

– Nasry Esmat in Los Angeles

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/08/egypt-cyber-war-among-possible-presidential-candidates.html
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Dondi's Def Con 18 Talk Slides

Below, are pictures, my abstract, and slides from my talk at Def Con 18.

DEF CON 18This paper argues that the current rules of war are adequate for addressing the unique issues that are encountered as a result of conducting and defending against cyber warfare. The author begins by giving a survey of the laws that have the biggest impact on cyber warfare. Next, the author describes several paradigms that have come about as a result of cyber warfare, followed by a direct rebuttal. The author then asserts five reasons for why the U.S. should not enter into an international treaty for cyber warfare: (1) combatant commanders already have proper guidelines for conducting warfare; even in the information age; (2) fields of law are seldom demarcated by technology; (3) an unintended consequence of a cyber warfare law is that it may pose an undue limitation on a primarily non-lethal strategic deterrence; (4) our adversaries are unlikely to comply; and (5) the rate of technology growth will outpace the ability for an international cyber regime to produce responsive policy, while the flexibility allotted by the UN Charter and laws of war are able to absorb technological advances. The author concludes that the current UN Charter and Laws of War should continue to govern cyber warfare and that creating an international treaty or law for cyber warfare would do more harm than good and seriously cripple our ability to conduct war.Dondi West Defcon 18 Slides

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Korea trying to put cyber security on G20 agenda

Korea trying to put cyber security on G20 agenda: "
Source: Kim Tong-hyung, The Korea Times
Korea is attempting to present computer security as a topic of discussion for the Group of 20 meetings in Seoul later this year. However, the talks for establishing an international body for combating cybercrimes seem to be discouraged.

The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the country’s converged regulator for broadcasting and telecommunications, and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security had vowed to include the forming of the new body as an agenda for November’s G20 summit of world leaders.
Government officials now confess to the difficulties of getting everyone on the same page.


The Public Administration Ministry announced in February that the country was considering establishing the international cybercrime organizations here. But the difficulty in securing the budget, as well as the slow advancement in related research, appears to have pushed the plans to the backburner for now.
“The talks about the international body have been consistent since last year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) cyber security seminar and we will continue to report on the progress of our preparation later this month,” said a ministry official.

“It will be difficult to include the talks about the international body on the G20 agenda. We have yet to achieve agreement over our plans with other G20 countries and we need more talks.”
The establishment of an international cybercrimes body based in Korea would be somewhat of an ironic development, as a slew of data breaches in past years have proved that the country doesn’t have a computer security defense system.

Security is becoming an increasing problem due to the sophistication of cybercrimes, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which are triggered by massive networks of hijacked computers used by hackers to cause disruption and steal data. Korea’s computer security mettle was tested unfavorably during a massive DDoS attack that crippled over 80,000 computers at homes and offices in July last year.
With security issues expected to become an increasing problem as computing moves toward the server-based “cloud” era, which further blurs the geographic boundaries in information technology (IT) services, policymakers here are stressing the need for better international collaboration.

“The G20 is obviously focused on the talks to strengthen the economic recovery and fix global financial systems, but with the increasing number of cyber attacks on online financial services and e-commerce services, security has become a real economic issue. Discussing the issue as a G20 topic would be meaningful,” said an official from the Financial Security Agency.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/08/123_70876.html
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EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers

EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers: "Via: EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now, could have been sued for their non-infringing or fair use activities. “By [...]"

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Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls

Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls: "Via: Wired: A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear. The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and content before they’re routed on their proper way through [...]"

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Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images

Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images: "Via: Wired: For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial [...]"

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