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Cyberattacks

Britain fends off flood of foreign cyber-attacks

8 March 2010

Guardian/Observer, 7 March 2010: Foreign states and terrorist groups are regularly launching cyber-attacks on the UK’s computer systems with the potential to cause widespread damage, according to the government’s security tsar. Lord West of Spithead, who is parliamentary under-secretary for security and counter-terrorism, told the Observer that the UK was under daily cyber attack, often [...]

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The West’s military infrastructure is at growing risk from sophisticated hackers

8 February 2010

The Independent, 6 Feb 10: Western governments are facing a potent and ill-understood new threat from terrorists and hostile powers in the shape of cyber warfare, military and security experts have warned. . . . US and British officials say what is at stake goes far beyond attempted state censorship, with military infrastructure and financial [...]

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Cyber attacks take aim at the heart of the American empire

1 February 2010

Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Feb 10: Al-Qaeda demonstrated on September 11, 2001, how a handful of scruffy extremists could use asymmetrical warfare to damage key US assets. Now imagine that the asymmetrical warfare against the US is being waged not by a few fanatics but by one of the world’s most powerful nation states. This [...]

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Utilities, Refineries and Banks Are Victims of Cyber Attacks, New Report Says

28 January 2010

Wall Street Journal, 28 Jan 10: Companies that run key public infrastructure assets like electric utilities, oil refineries and banks are regularly victims of the kind of cyber attacks that recently penetrated Google Inc., according to a new report by a former top homeland security official.  Cyber attacks are often coupled with extortion demands, according [...]

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S.Korea heightens alert against cyberattacks

28 January 2010

AFP, 27 Jan 10: South Korea’s spy agency said Wednesday it had issued an alert against cyberattacks aimed at stealing data from government networks. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) did not say whether North Korea was responsible. Open Radio for North Korea, a Seoul-based group specialising in the North, said the latest attack was led [...]

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The top 10 Chinese cyber attacks (that we know of)

22 January 2010

Foreign Policy, 22 Jan 10:  . . . . .The Defense Department has said that the Chinese government, in addition to employing thousands of its own hackers, manages massive teams of experts from academia and industry in “cyber militias” that act in Chinese national interests with unclear amounts of support and direction from China’s People’s [...]

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