Hope for Hutchins, Navy sinks contractor, there's another Russian hacking scandal, and more This week, when we weren't watching the football and sobbing uncontrollably, we saw security headaches at NPM and Ticketmaster, and a priest in hot water with cybercrime charges. But there's always more in the security world. Here are a few other bits of security news from recent days. Russians could be behind 'cyber caliphate …
@ Doctor Syntax: "A former electrical engineer ...Jared Sparks"
"An electrical engineer secretly uploaded onto his personal Dropbox account thousands of files containing sensitive information about the unmanned underwater vehicles his company was developing for the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research."
The story is a bit more ambiguous than is made out by the DOJ. Sparks worked for both companies and took his own documents with him when he left. Somehow I don't think the words secret and dropbox go together in a sentence :]
Assuming the 'secret' files were so insecure that such un-audited transfer took place and contractors were allowed to maintain personal dropbox accounts, anyone and his dog could have access to them. The FSB must be laughing their socks off at this kind of thing.
"If substantiated, the claims about APT28 posing as the Cyber Caliphate could be the first public evidence that influence operations have specifically targeted American military families .. If left unchecked, such operations would threaten the personal liberty, financial security, mental health, and morale of our military families."
What is this neocon propaganda doing on a technology website?
What is this neocon propaganda doing on a technology website?
If true, it is an interesting angle the war between the West and Russia is taking. Psychological warfare against enemy troops AFAIK is not prohibited by international conventions. Just the opposite.
By the way, anyone having any ideas that we are not at war should go visit a shrink. Definitely the case after NATO requested two countries with unresolved separatist/territorial cases with Russia to join and agreed to the Orange one's request to up the budgets from their peacetime (< 2% GDP) setting to 4%.
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