Cyber Security Roundup for October 2018

Aside from Brexit, Cyber Threats and Cyber Attack accusations against Russia are very much on the centre stage of UK government’s international political agenda at the moment. The government publically accused Russia’s military ‘GRU’ intelligence … Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for October 2018

Huawei releases IoT Cloud Service 2.0 to enable IIoT by combining connectivity, cloud, and intelligence

Huawei released IoT Cloud Service 2.0 and announced its IoT strategy (Provide IoT Infrastructure and Build up an Ecosystem). Through expanded connections, cloud services, and AI, Huawei is committed to building a more powerful industrial IoT and enabli… Continue reading Huawei releases IoT Cloud Service 2.0 to enable IIoT by combining connectivity, cloud, and intelligence

Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Android OS

The most dire vulnerability targets the Android framework and could allow an adversary to execute arbitrary code on targeted devices. Continue reading Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Android OS

NSA official: Foreign hackers have ‘pummeled’ U.S. by stealing IP

Hackers sponsored by foreign governments have chipped away at the United States’ global economic advantage through a steady campaign of intellectual property theft, according to a top National Security Agency official. “It pains me to see the core of how we’ve defined ourselves over the last century” – in terms of innovation and intellectual property – “be continuously pummeled by external nation-state and non-nation-state-sponsored malicious cyber activity,” NSA Deputy Director George Barnes said Tuesday at the Intelligence and National Security Summit (INSA) in National Harbor, Md. Rather than one, devastating cyberattack, Barnes said there has been a “slow drop” of “continual theft of intellectual property from our industries.” Former NSA director Keith Alexander has repeatedly called the theft of U.S. intellectual property “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” In a New York Times op-ed last year, Alexander and Dennis Blair, a former Director of National Intelligence, said such theft costs the U.S. $600 billion per year. […]

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Possible Satori botnet hacker indicted by Feds

A 20 year-old man has been indicted for computer crimes by a federal court in Alaska. Evidence suggests that he could be linked to the Satori botnet that exploited a previously unknown bug in a Huawei router. Continue reading Possible Satori botnet hacker indicted by Feds

Cyber Security Roundup for August 2018

The largest data breach disclosed this month was by T-Mobile, the telecoms giant said there had been “unauthorised access” to potentially 2 million of their 77 million customer accounts. According to the media, a hacker took advantage of a vulnera… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for August 2018

Networking vendors patch ​against new cryptographic attack

Vulnerable IPSec IKE implementations used in Cisco, Huawei, ZyXel and Clavister networking devices can allow attackers to retrieve session keys and decrypt connections, researchers have found. The attack Dennis Felsch, Martin Grothe and Jörg Schwenk fr… Continue reading Networking vendors patch ​against new cryptographic attack