ClearSky Cyberdefense Forum

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

Four people were arrested in the Philippines last week on charges that they hacked into the trunk lines of multiple U.S. telecommunication companies, including AT&T.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232200252

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065816/Worm-Apple–Criminals-hack-iTunes-control-PCS–selll-PC-info-foreign-spies.html

The UK has published their four years cyber strategy.

“Our vision is for the UK in 2015 to derive huge economic and social value from a
vibrant, resilient and secure cyberspace, where our actions, guided by our core
values of liberty, fairness, transparency and the rule of law, enhance prosperity,
national security and a strong society”

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/The%20UK%20Cyber%20Security%20Strategy-%20web%20ver.pdf#page=1

A number of UK banks have undergone an exercise to demonstrate that they can cope with a cyber attack that prevents customers from accessing cash, and public transport disruptions during the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Some 87 financial firms and banks, including HSBC, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, took part in the exercise yesterday. The aim was to see how quickly the financial sector could restore services to ‘business as usual’ after major disruption.

http://www.cfoworld.co.uk/news/risk/3320539/banks-simulate-olympics-cyber-attack/

Three software engineers used logic bombing, a cyber attack technique, to disable the Common Use Passengers Processing System (CUPPS) they had helped install at Terminal 3 of the IGIA.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Bangalore/3-Bangalore-techies-crippled-Delhi-Airport-in-June/Article1-771868.aspx

Foreign hackers caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail last week, according to a preliminary state report. Experts said the cyber-attack, if confirmed, would be the first known to have damaged one of the systems that supply Americans with water, electricity and other essentials of modern life.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/foreign-hackers-broke-into-illinois-water-plant-control-system-industry-expert-says/2011/11/18/gIQAgmTZYN_blog.html