I attended our national ecrime conference last month. The speakers were all selling a product, hype was nearly as slick as the suits. The free lunch was very good but I refrained from taking freebies in order to avoid chatting to the spooks who roamed the hall, 'networking' like well chromed upper class grads attemting to touch base with the geeks. Fail.

Yeah, those things always seem more sales than education to me.

“See-bare-espace, it is everting.” - Odile Richard

Israel’s Secret Iran Attack Plan: Electronic Warfare

This is the really scary future right here. The long and short of it is, and anonymous source from American intelligence claims Israel has been developing a strategic cyberwarfare capability for possible use against Iran.

Electronic Warfare and Information Warfare used to be considered two separate domains, one concerned with controlling the electromagnetic spectrum and the other with attacking enemy information systems, but the ubiquity of information systems and networks have made them one and the same. Why jam an early warning radar when you can introduce a virus that leaves it disabled? In the first Gulf War, coalition airstrikes targeted the major hubs of the Iraqi Command and Control and Air Defense networks, breaking the network by destroying its critical infrastructure. In the last two decades, computer connectivity has spread like an insidious fluid, connection to a network seeping into systems most people don't even consider. Now, it's becoming possible to do what Desert Storm's airstrikes did in reverse: using the network to disable the critical infrastructure it supports.

Fujitsu Cyberweapon Developed In Japan: 'Good' Virus Created For Cyber Defense

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The Japanese Defense Ministry is developing a computer virus aimed at seeking and destroying cyber attacks launched against the country, according to local media reports.

The malware-fighting cyberweapon, which is being created by defense contractor Fujitsu for an estimated $2.3 million, has the ability to identify the source of a cyber attack with a high level of accuracy, then replicate itself from computer to computer, cleaning up viruses across the network, according to the Japanese new site The Yomiuri Shimbun.

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Israel Behind Largest Cyber Spy Weapon Ever?

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"Whoever sees the Iranian threat as a serious threat would be likely to take different steps, including these, in order to hurt them," Israel's vice prime minister Moshe Yaalon told Israel's Army Radio today, referring to the cyber attack. "Israel is blessed to be a nation possessing superior technology. These achievements of ours open up all kinds of possibilities for us."

Flame, also known as sKyWIper, is a veritable "toolkit" of cyber spying programs that is capable of remotely taking screenshots while the computer user works, recording audio conversations through the computer's own microphone, intercepting keyboard inputs and wiping data, among other sophisticated capabilities, according to cyber security experts. The code has been active for two years and has infected dozens of computers throughout the Middle East, mostly in Iran.

Three cyber security firms, both in the U.S. and abroad, that have begun to analyze Flame said the code is unprecedented in complexity and, due to its sheer sophistication, was most likely developed by a hacking team working under the direction of a nation-state.

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