DNS hijacking is a form of cyber attack that involves using malware to infect a target’s device, gain access to its TCP/IP data, change these settings, then re-route the target to a fake duplicate of a bona fide site to either capture personal information or to track the target, or both. As a stock in trade not only of black hats but also ethical malware companies and law … [Read more...]
SciEngines: Terrorist Coronary Failure By Custom Hardware Attack
C5IS reviews SciEngines, a provider of FPGA-based cryptanalytic devices for custom hardware attack by military and government intelligence against encrypted terrorist and criminal communications. Off in some dusty corner of the ISIS caliphate, skilled cryptologists run an online college for initiates of the Islamic State on ways to conceal communications via encryption and … [Read more...]
FBI Blows Its Cover on “Going Dark”
We’ve all heard about law enforcement “going dark” in the face of encryption and other technologies that render suspects’ communications services and devices impenetrable to evidence collection and surveillance. The current standard bearer is FBI Director James Comey. His plea: that tech companies should cooperate in providing “back doors” into their products to facilitate … [Read more...]
Internet of Things: The Map of Cyber Intrusion Vulnerability
The Web is alive with a new report by Evans Data Corporation showing rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT). The report cites North America and the Asia Pacific region as being well ahead in IOT development projects, while EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) lag far behind due to lack of interest by developers. The implication: Those in the lead are … [Read more...]
NYSE Goes Dark: Dismiss it or FREAK Out?
FREAK vulnerability, a sleeper for nearly a decade, serves as a reminder that widespread IT security weakness remains an unaddressed crisis-in-the-making. One day after the epic outage of the New York Stock Exchange, the crash of United Airlines computer systems and similar problems at The Wall Street Journal, the trio of incidents has moved out of the front page and off … [Read more...]