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Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He co-sponsored cybersecurity legislation that was blocked in the Senate this summer.The threat of a cyber attack on our electric grid, water supply system, financial networks, or oil and gas lines is anything but hype. I have been concerned about this threat for years, and the evidence has grown exponentially that sophisticated adversaries could paralyze the nation with targeted cyber attacks on critical networks. Some have even penetrated networks in the oil and natural gas sector. That's only a few keystrokes away
FBI agents may not have been the first to rumble the affair between CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer that led to the four-star general's resignation on Friday.Anyone with a copy of the leaked Stratfor databases, a half-decent PC, some political nous and a barrel of luck could have uncovered the fling months ago, it has emerged.Paula Broadwell, the former spy chief's mistress and biographer, was a customer of Stratfor, the private intelligence outfit that was attacked by Anonymous hackers last year. Buried in the megabytes of subsequently leaked information was Broadwell's Yahoo! email address and her hashed Stratfor login password.
Call it a slow leak. Four months after the gaming site Gamigo warned users about a hacker intrusion that accessed some portions of its usersâ credentials, more than 8 million usernames, emails and and encrypted passwords from the site have been published on the Web, according to the data breach alert service PwnedList. The half-gigabyte collection of stolen user data was posted to a password-cracking forum Inside Pro earlier this month, where it remained online
Hackers and foreign spies are bombarding government departments and businesses around the clock in what has become one of the “greatest challenges” of modern times. As well as targeting state or trade secrets, the cyber criminals and anarchists also try to disrupt infrastructure and communications, and even satellite systems. William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, told The Daily Telegraph that not an hour goes by when a system in the UK is not being attacked. But intelligence sources have revealed that it is much worse than that, with attempts being made minute after minute. In just a single attack during the summer, a
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