Bugging equipment found in Mexico lawmaker offices

philstar.com MEXICO CITY (AP) — A search of several Mexican lawmakers’ offices turned up recording equipment, leading legislators to believe they have been spied on for years, a congressman said Wednesday.Congressman Armando Rios said security personnel found microphones and other devices that seemed to have been installed years ago. “Some of the equipment has newer [...]

DARPA-Funded Hacker’s Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones

forbes.com Even more embarrassing than a student discovering your GPS tracking device on his car, as the FBI found out last year, is having to ask him to give the expensive piece of equipment back. So security researcher Brendan O’Connor is trying a different approach to spy hardware: building a sensor-equipped surveillance-capable computer that’s so cheap [...]

Todd Haley’s Bugging Allegations

bleacherreport.comIt’s no surprise that former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley is in the news right now—he is one of the hottest free agent coaching commodities on the market right now—what is odd, however, are the reasons he is showing up right now.  Reports by the Kansas City Star, which include allegations by Haley, tell [...]

Alleged spy fed false info in sting to hurt credibility

vancouversun.com Authorities fed an alleged Canadian naval spy fabricated information as part of a classic “sour milk” counter-intelligence ploy to taint the credibility of secrets the man is suspected of passing to Russia, Postmedia has learned. “This was done by the book – sour the milk so that you con-fuse the other side,” Michel Juneau-Katsuya, [...]

10 Sites Skewered by Anonymous, Including FBI, DOJ, U.S. Copyright Office

techland.time.com By the time East Coasters were finishing dinner last night, 10 websites had fallen to what hacktivist group Anonymous calls its “low orbit ion cannon,” or LOIC — a public domain software tool named after a weapon in a popular sci-fi real-time strategy game that’s designed to stress test whether a network can handle a distributed denial of [...]

Facebook names $2m ‘Koobface’ hacking gang

telegraph.co.ukFacebook has publicly identified a gang of five alleged cyber criminals it believes are behind Koobface, a piece of malicious software that has hijacked hundreds of thousands of Facebook users’ computers and made millions for its creators. After an investigation by Facebook and several independent security researchers, the gang behind Koobface have been named as [...]

Cyber-Crimes Pose ‘Existential’ Threat, FBI Warns

huffingtonpost.com Despite the increased frequency and severity of online crime and espionage in 2011, many American corporations and consumers are still not taking the threat seriously, the FBI’s top cyber official said Thursday. The risk posed by criminal hackers is “existential, meaning it could eliminate whole companies,” said Shawn Henry, the FBI’s executive assistant director. [...]

Cyber Attacks May Be Revealed to Investors as SEC Rules Push Disclosures

Note: This was bound to happen as more and more companies become victims of Cyber Espionage. Has your company become a victim of Cyber Espionage? And, more importantly, does your company have a Cyber TSCM / Cyber Counterespionage strategy in place to mitigate this risk? Contact me, I can help. ~JDL bloomberg.com China-based hackers rifled the [...]

Symantec Confirms Anonymous Took Product Source Code

crn.com Symantec (NSDQ:SYMC) confirmed Friday that an India-based chapter of hacker collective Anonymous had accessed the network of an unidentified third party and had taken source code from two of its corporate security products. The vendor said code samples provided Thursday to an online community of security professionals called Infosec Island were from two products: Symantec Endpoint [...]

Brute force tools crack Wi-Fi security in hours, millions of wireless routers vulnerable

computerworld.com If you set WPA/WPA2 security protocol on your home or small business wireless router, and you think your Wi-Fi is secure, there two recently released brute force tools that attackers may use to bypass your encryption and burst your security bubble. The irony is that the vulnerability which can be exploited was intended to [...]