ClearSky Cyberdefense Forum

Vince Weaver, McAfee Labs’ Sr. VP, says:

Many of the threats that will become prominent in 2012 have already been looming under the radar in 2011. Over the past year, the general public has become more aware of some of these risks, such as threats to critical infrastructure or the impact of hacktivism as they gain international media attention.  In the meantime, we continue to see cybercriminals improving their toolkits and malware and are ready to make a significant impact in 2012

To the Report

http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-threat-predictions-2012.pdf

Chapter 9 deals with cyber security

http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/studies/documents/electric-grid-2011/Electric_Grid_Full_Report.pdf

A recent report by The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX), which was presented to Congress, named and shamed China and Russia for running cyber-espionage campaigns geared towards stealing the US’s technology and economic secrets. The report, straightforwardly titled Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace, described China as the source of the majority of intrusions without blaming its government directly.

The Report:

http://www.ncix.gov/publications/reports/fecie_all/Foreign_Economic_Collection_2011.pdf

The article :

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/24/china_cybercrime_underground_analysis/

ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, has called on European Union (EU) member states to improve their protection against potential attacks on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and to work closer together to prevent cyber attacks. The findings are published in a study of European ICS security, which includes seven recommendations for European countries.

ENISA Report :

http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/res/other-areas/ics-scada/protecting-industrial-control-systems.-recommendations-for-europe-and-member-states

The Article:

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/enisa-issues-seven-recommendations-to-improve-ics-security-50874

China has made industrial espionage an integral part of its economic policy, stealing company secrets to help it leapfrog over U.S. and other foreign competitors to further its goal of becoming the world’s largest economy, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a report released last month.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-13/china-based-hacking-of-760-companies-reflects-undeclared-global-cyber-war.html

Iran is conducting anti-U.S. operations from Latin America, including military training camps in Venezuela, and expanding its reach across the border from the U.S. in Mexico, according to footage unveiled late Thursday by the largest Spanish-language network in the United States, Univision.

The documentary showed a former Iran senior official accepting a plan to launch from Mexico a cyber war on the United States, one that would cripple U.S. computer systems, including the White House, the FBI, the CIA and several nuclear plants. The official, former Iranian Ambassador to Mexico Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri, was shown accepting the offer from undercover Mexican university students.

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/09/univision-confirms-iranian-threat-in-latin-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

14 sites were victims of DDoS attacks, including those of the radio station Ekho Moskvy, the newspaper Kommersant, and Golos, the country’s only independent election watchdog. Those Web sites were attacked as early as 6:40 on Sunday morning, according to Alexei Venediktov, Ekho Moskvy’s editor-in-chief, and remained offline for the entire day. According to information-security experts at Yandex, Russia’s largest search portal, more than 200,000 computers were turned into “slaves” for the DDoS attack, in which a targeted site receives so many requests for access that it simply shuts down. It is a simple, cheap, and effective way to disrupt a Web site, at least temporarily.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136727/andrei-soldatov/vladimir-putins-cyber-warriors

Iranian state-run TV showed images of what appears to be a RQ-170 Sentinel drone, which the Islamic Republic claimed to have brought down by cyberattack in its airspace near the Afghanistan border over the weekend.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-57339407-503543/iran-shows-intact-drone-boasts-of-cyberattack/

Adobe is rushing to develop a patch to fix a critical vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader

American defence giant Lockheed Martin has set up a cyber warfare centre in Britain to help defend the country from a constant barrage of electronic attacks.
The Security Intelligence Centre in Farnborough, Hampshire, which began operations on Friday, is manned by 20 British electronics experts.

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/25143?c=cyber_security

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2069800/American-defence-giant-Lockheed-Martin-opens-cyber-warfare-centre-Britain.html?ito=feeds-newsxml