Open Source Intelligence

2/21/12

Alert on Hacker Power Play – Growing Concern Over Anonymous Group’s Capabilities

By Siobhan Gorman

The director of the National Security Agency has warned that the hacking group Anonymous could have the ability within the next year or two to bring about a limited power outage through a cyberattack. Read more…

2/21/12

Pentagon Tech Chief Points To Big Problem In Protecting Networks

By Loren Thompson

China’s New Year celebration last month wasn’t a holiday just for the Chinese.  It was also a brief respite for the thousands of specialists who defend America’s military and intelligence networks, since the volume of cyber attacks always seems to fall off when the Middle Kingdom is having a holiday. Read more…

2/21/12

Iran to Build its First Cyber Army

By Gianluca Mezzofiore

Iran is poised to build its first “cyber army”, a top official has announced.  Brig Gen Gholamreza Jalali, commander of the Civil Defence Organisation, claimed the Islamic republic would follow the example of the US, which is downsizing its army for larger cyber defence infrastructure. Read more…

2/16/12

OpChina: Anonymous Hackers Target China’s Great Firewall

By Alastair Stevenson

As part of its ongoing OpChina campaign, Anonymous hackers have targeted Chinese government websites, posting the stolen data online. Read more…

2/15/12

Cyber thieves piggyback off Stratfor breach

By Aliya Sternstein

Hackers posing as officials from the geopolitical analysis publisher Stratfor are emailing infected links to government subscribers whose email addresses were stolen during an earlier raid on the company’s computers, Microsoft researchers say. Read more…

2/15/12

Hackers tear down NASDAQ

By Brendan McDermid

The website of stock exchange operator NASDAQ is offline after being attacked by an onslaught of distributed denial of service, or DDoS attacks. Read more…

2/15/12

Hackers Claim Attack on American Tear Gas Company

By Raphael Satter

A U.S. security company whose tear gas has been used against Egyptian demonstrators has become the latest victim of the Anonymous movement, hackers claimed Tuesday. Read more…

2/14/12

Report: Chinese hackers breach Nortel networks

By Hayley Tsukayama

Hackers working from China have reportedly had access to Nortel’s networks since breaching the telecommunication company’s networks as far back as 2000. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, hackers stole seven passwords from Nortel’s top executives, granting them access to reports, business plans, employee e-mails and other documents. Read more…

2/13/12

Disgruntled ex-employee admits hacking into Chesterfield company

By Robert Patrick

ST. LOUIS  • A De Soto man on Wednesday admitted hacking into his former employer’s computer system and deleting and otherwise disrupting company data. Read more…

2/13/12

OperationSnowMelt: Anonymous Hackers Blow Whistle on Romanian Spy Ring

By Alastair Stevenson

Anonymous’ Romanian cell has announced that it will release a number of files taken during a recent cyber raidon the country’s spy agencies.   Read more…