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by BREITBART JERUSALEM21 Jan 20161

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about cyber defense with CEOs and VPs of major international companies.

One highlight of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s participation in the World Economic Forum at Davos has been his 20-minute appearance on CNN’s One on One program with commentator Fareed Zakaria and a series of political and economic meetings. The Prime Minister’s Office said that Netanyahu had been one of very few of the many heads of state attending the conference to appear on the program. However, the main focus of Netanyahu’s efforts at Davos has been to stress the importance of cyber security in a world relaying increasingly on Internet communications.Netanyahu’s schedule today began with meetings with US Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, and further meetings are scheduled with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, recently elected Argentinian President Mauricio Macri, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

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U.S. Treasury’s Computer System Exposed to Hackers @GIGALAW

Lax security left the U.S. Treasury’s computer system for tracking overseas threats to America’s financial system vulnerable to hackers, according to a government audit prepared in late 2014 and obtained by Reuters. The Treasury Foreign Intelligence Network is used by U.S. spy agencies to share top-secret information and to keep tabs on the impact of sanctions against countries such as Iran and Russia, as well as militant groups like Hezbollah.

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FBI Director Sees ‘Increasing Interest’ in Cyberattacks

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said that terrorist groups had begun discussing ways to hit Americans with a cyberattack, though he said plotting appeared to be in early stages. “We are picking up signs of increasing interest,” he said in evening remarks at the Aspen Security Forum.

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Google Giving Away Patents to Start-Up Companies

Google has started a program for startups to give away up to two non-organic patent families off Google, as well as potentially make offers to buy patents from it in the future. It’s tying up the offer with a requirement to join the LOT Network, a cross-company licensing push (others in the group include Dropbox, SAP and Canon) aimed at driving down the number of patent trolling suits.

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Mobile Fraud Costs Advertisers $1 Billion, Report Says

As mobile devices proliferate, app advertising has become a huge business, worth an estimated $20 billion in the U.S. alone. But how much of that is being wasted? According to a new report from fraud-detection firm Forensiq, as much as $1 billion of that advertising money is being lost to fraud in a number of ways — including malicious apps that hijack mobile phones and turn them into an ad-viewing botnet.

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Democrats Fail to Strip Net Neutrality Pricing Rider

Democrats were unsuccessful in stripping out a net neutrality rider in a Senate spending bill that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from regulating the rates that Internet service providers charge their customers. Democrats urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to give net neutrality negotiations time to breath in the Commerce Committee, where Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) and ranking member Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) have been trying to come up with a legislative solution.

Four Arrested in U.S., Israel for JPMorgan Chase Hacking @Gigalaw

Law enforcement authorities arrested four people in Israel and Florida and revealed a complex securities fraud scheme tied to the computer hacks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other financial institutions. The arrests are the culmination of a months-long investigation of several friends who met more than a decade ago at Florida State University and are linked by an FBI memo to one of the largest U.S. bank hacks in history — one that JPMorgan officials argued initially was the work of the Russian government.

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Security Experts Control Jeep Cherokee Remotely

Wired magazine reports on how it engaged two hackers to see if they could take control of a Jeep Cherokee from the comfort of their living room while writer Andy Greenberg sat nervously at the wheel while the SUV cruised the highway at 70 mph. The security experts, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, accessed the Jeep’s computer brain through its Uconnect infotainment system and rewrote the firmware to plant their malicious code.

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Judge Rules Against Facebook Over Search Warrants

Facebook Inc. lost a bid to block the biggest set of search warrants the company said it ever received in a case that might affect the amount of information social-media sites turn over to law enforcement. The trove of digital information held by social-media companies has sparked privacy concerns across the U.S., especially as law enforcement officials increasingly use the information as evidence of wrongdoing.

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Tech Firms Ask Court to Review Apple Win Against Samsung

Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are backing Samsung in its patent war with Apple. A coalition of huge firms including Facebook, Google, HP, Dell, and eBay are asking a U.S. appeals court to review a decision forcing Samsung to turn over full profits for Galaxy products found to infringe on Apple patents.

IRS Says Cyber Breach Originated in Russia @GigaLaw

The IRS believes that a major cyber breach that allowed criminals to steal the tax returns of more than 100,000 people originated in Russia, two sources briefed on the data theft tell CNN. The Internal Revenue Service announced that organized crime syndicates used personal data obtained from elsewhere to access tax information, which they then used to file $50 million in fraudulent returns.

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Average Cost of Data Breach Rises to $3.8 Million

The cost of data breaches is rising for companies around the world as sophisticated thieves target valuable financial and medical records, according to a study. The total average cost of a data breach is now $3.8 million, up from $3.5 million a year ago, according to a study by data security research organization Ponemon Institute, paid for by International Business Machines Corp.

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Judge Approves Class-Action for Yahoo E-mail Lawsuit

A U.S. judge ordered Yahoo Inc. to face a nationwide class-action lawsuit accusing it of illegally intercepting the content of emails sent to Yahoo Mail subscribers from non-Yahoo Mail accounts, and using the information to boost advertising revenue. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said people who sent emails to or received emails from Yahoo Mail subscribers since Oct. 2, 2011 may sue as a group under the federal Stored Communications Act for alleged privacy violations.

• Read the article: Reuters

 

Google Fights Ruling in Mexico Over Deleting Links

Free-speech advocates are challenging a ruling against Google Mexico that they say would allow politicians and business moguls to abuse the so-called right to be forgotten by wiping out Internet links that cast them in a negative light. The Google Inc. unit and local digital-rights activists are fighting in court to overturn a recent ruling by Mexico’s Federal Institute for the Access to Information, or IFAI.

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German Court Upholds Legality of Ad-Blocking Software

Making software available to block advertising online is not illegal, a German court ruled, in a judgment that poses a challenge to the revenues of global media groups. The operation of a “whitelist” of acceptable ads that are allowed through adblocking filters in exchange for a fee — a business model that media groups have likened to “extortion” — is also not in breach of the law, Munich’s district court ruled.

• Read the article: Financial Times

 

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#Iran Growing as a Skilled #Cyberthreat, Experts Say

Tehran, Iran. (Borna Mirahmadian/Dreamstime)

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By Sandy Fitzgerald

Iran has been increasing the frequency and skill of its cyberattacks on targets around the world while negotiating limits on its nuclear capabilities, a new study conducted by cybersecurity firm Norse and the American Enterprise Institute reveals.

"Cyber gives them a usable weapon in ways nuclear technology does not," Frederick Kagan, with the institute's Critical Threats Project, told The New York Times. "It has a degree of plausible deniability that is attractive to many countries."

In February, National Intelligence Director James Clapper Jr. reported to Congress that Iranian hackers were behind a crippling attack on computers at the Las Vegas Sands hotel and casino, likely in retribution for comments made by its CEO Sheldon Adelson, an ardent supporter of Israel.

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Clapper's comments, and another disclosure from President Barack Obama accusing North Korea of launching a cyberattack on Sony Pictures in retribution for the movie "The Interview," marked rare incidents in which countries were specifically targeted.

U.S. officials have also said Iran has attacked American bank computers in retaliation for ongoing sanctions against the country, and that hackers destroyed computers owned by the oil company Saudi Aramco to retaliate for the close ties Saudi Arabia maintains with the United States.

#OBAMA Plans New Agency to Fight #Cyberattacks

The Obama administration is establishing a new agency to combat the deepening threat from cyberattacks, and its mission will be to fuse intelligence from around the government when a crisis occurs. The agency is modeled after the National Counterterrorism Center, which was launched in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks amid criticism that the government failed to share intelligence that could have unraveled the al-Qaeda plot.

·         Read the article: The Washington Post

Hackers Attack Newsweek’s Twitter Account

Newsweek magazine’s Twitter account was the victim of hackers who posted a threat to U.S. President Barack Obama and his family and the words “CyberCaliphate” and “Je suis IS,” a reference to Islamic State and the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. It also posted a message intended for the United States in retaliation for its actions in the Muslim world.

·         Read the article: Reuters

Hackers Reprogrammed Widget on Forbes Website

Users of Microsoft’s flagship Internet browser who visited Forbes.com on the four days following Thanksgiving were open to be hacked, two cybersecurity firms said. The companies, iSight Partners and Invincea, said hackers who appear to be linked to China had reprogrammed Forbes’ “Thought of the Day” widget to send malicious computer code to readers’ computers.

·         Read the article: The Wall Street Journal

Twitter Accused of Breaking Law in Russia

A Russian agency that regulates media said the micro-blogging site Twitter had refused 108 requests for account information and was “consistently not satisfying the requirements of the Russian law”, the state-run news agency TASS reported. Alexander Zharov, the head of Roskomnadzor, was also quoted as saying Twitter had refused its requests to block some accounts.

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IBM Files Patent Suit Against Priceline, Kayak, OpenTable

IBM is suing Priceline Group Inc. and its subsidiaries, travel website Kayak and restaurant-reservation tool Opentable, after failing to reach a patent-licensing agreement. International Business Machines Corp. said the Priceline companies aren’t paying royalties to use two patents issued in the late 1990s that were the result of development of the Prodigy online service, one of the earliest means for the public to access the Internet.

The Threat of International #Cyber #Hacking

By: East Asia Forum   Date: 24 January 2015\

China and the US are entering a new and troubling phase of cybersecurity. The recent crash of North Korea’s internet network reveals just how inexperienced world leaders are in dealing with cyber conflict. It shows how one reckless act in the cyber realm can quickly devolve into a bigger international crisis. The confusion and ambiguity surrounding this sequence of events has left the US and China entangled in a high profile cybersecurity standoff.

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An American comedy film, The Interview, allegedly provoked North Korea into hacking the Sony Entertainment Network, drawing attention from the FBI, the UN Security Council, the White House, and top officials in South Korea and Japan. Soon after, an FBI report formally implicated North Korea in the attack. While President Obama promised to ‘respond proportionally’, North Korea’s entire internet network suddenly went offline.

The FBI has stood by its accusation that Pyongyang was responsible but few outside experts are convinced. There is growing speculation that North Korea’s internet blackout was a sophisticated cyber-attack engineered by the US.

As leading experts on cybersecurity have pointed out, one of the biggest challenges with cyber-attacks is attribution. Both state and non-state actors can launch attacks with intricately disguised origins, which can introduce uncertainty into the response process. It is hard and sometimes even impossible to respond appropriately when a major cyber-attack takes place. The inherent uncertainty in US–China relations already makes for volatility. But with some of the world’s most sophisticated cyber war capabilities, conflict could escalate quickly over faulty intelligence.

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#CyberSecurithy for Law Firms

Kenneth N. Rashbaum, Jason M. Tenenbaum and Liberty McAteer, New York Law Journal

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Banks and other financial institutions are auditing their law firms for cybersecurity safeguards. Hospitals and hospital systems have, as required by federal law, been demanding and examining law firm policies and procedures for compliance with security provisions under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for several years. There is a basis for concern: A number of law firms, including some of the largest firms in the United States and Canada, have been hacked in the past two years, and a firm in Virginia was forced to cease operations for a time following a breach of three gigabytes of client data.1

It is not difficult, then, as the late Rod Serling, host of the long-running television show "The Twilight Zone" asked viewers at the beginning of each episode, to "imagine, if you will" the following scene:

A law firm's managing partner answers her phone on the first ring. It is 3 p.m. on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and her husband wants to know when she'll be home to help him with dinner preparations for the 18 people expected to arrive within the next 24 hours. As she gathers her things and prepares to leave, her computer's email notification alarm chimes twice. She clicks on the first email. It's from the chief technical officer of the bank that is the firm's biggest client.

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#TCOT #JPNET WH IGNORES ONGOING #CYBERATTACKS on #US Infrastructure

by JORDAN SCHACHTEL 5 Dec 2014 215POST A COMMENT

The Obama administration has faced a larger threat of cyber attacks from foreign enemies than any administration before it, yet has demonstrated a continuing de facto policy in dealing with the onslaught of cyber attacks against our nation: doing nothing. 

Not only does our current administration mostly ignore the intrusions and sabotage entirely--they carry on like nothing ever happened.

Breitbart News reported on Thursday that Iranian hackers had infiltrated the United States’ Critical Infrastructure systems, some of which control the country’s water, gas, and transit networks, while also breaching other entities such as our airport security networks, according to a cybersecurity firm. Instead of recognizing Iran’s unprovoked aggression, the Administration ignored the report entirely. Instead, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf revealed how the U.S. is now engaged in discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran about how to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS).

At the same time, President Obama was inking an emissions agreement in November with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Beijing was busy hacking our satellite networks. Government officials said that China’s cyber teams stole data “vital to disaster planning, aviation, shipping, and scores of other crucial uses.”

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Funny, none of this HAPPENED when George W Bush was PRESIDENT!

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#PJNET ALERT: State Department and White House Networks Hacked at the Same Time

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Aliya SternsteinNextgovNovember 16, 2014

The email system was compromised in recent weeks, at the same time as a White House network, and officials took the State system offline Friday, according to department officials

Aliya Sternstein reports on cybersecurity and homeland security systems. She’s covered technology for more than a decade at such publications as National Journal's Technology Daily, Federal Computer Week and Forbes. Before joining Government Executive, Sternstein covered agriculture and derivatives ...Full Bio

The maintenance has disrupted email traffic of State employees and the ability to access public websites, a senior department official told Nextgov on Sunday afternoon. State expects systems to be back up soon.

It is believed hackers backed by a nation state, likely Russia or China, infiltrated the White House system in September or October. Officials were still working to suppress abnormal behavior on that network as recently as late October.

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White House Abandons ‘One Big Cybersecurity Bill’

In an effort to push cybersecurity legislation through Congress, the Obama administration has given up trying to pass one big bill and is opting to break up the legislation into bite-size chunks that lawmakers are more likely to approve, the White House cybersecurity czar said. “I think it’s easier to get smaller pieces through rather than one big cybersecurity bill,” said White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel at a news event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor and the Center for National Policy.

·         Read the article: USA Today