- Capita shares sink as outsourcing giant swings to £107m loss, takes £25m hit from cyber attack
March 6, 2024
Capita has incurred £25.3m in costs tied to a cyber attack last March as the outsourcing giant swung to an annual loss and ramped up its cost-cutting programme. Shares fell 16 per cent on Wednesday morning. The group, which runs key local government, military and NHS services, posted a pretax loss of £106.6m for 2023, compared ...
- Germany: Use of non-secure line behind Taurus talk leak to Russia
March 5, 2024
The Ministry of Defence blamed an unnamed individual’s improper use of a “non-secure data line” for the recent leak of a German army conversation about the Taurus weapon system to Russia. The mistake was made by the participant who took part in the conversation from Singapore and had dialled in via a “non-secure data line” such ...
- China to accelerate integration of cybersecurity and AI to deal with risks
March 1, 2024
China’s cybersecurity technology ranks in the “top tier” globally, and in the realm of security and defense it can now stand on par with the US, Qi Xiangdong, chairman of Qi An Xin Technology Group, told the Global Times on Friday. However, there remains a gap between China and some developed countries such as the US ...
- The 32nd International Defense Industry Exhibition MSPO will take place from 3 to 6 September 2024 in Kielce, Poland
March 1, 2024
MSPO is undoubtedly a presentation platform for the global defence industry’s most outstanding achievements. MSPO is also abounds with business meetings and contracts concluded between manufacturers and the defence sector institutions from different continents. For 32 years, in the context of Europe’s defence industry expos, Kielce has come at par with Eurosatory in Paris and ...
- Hackers stole ‘sensitive’ data from Taiwan telecom giant
March 1, 2024
Hackers stole “sensitive information” including military and government documents from Taiwan’s largest telecom company and sold it on the dark web, the island’s ministry of national defence has said. The confirmation of the democratic island’s latest major data leak followed a report by local news channel TVBS on the hack of telecom giant Chunghwa Telecom. Read more… Source: ...
- The Building Resilience to Cognitive Warfare Technical Exchange Meeting
February 23, 2024
In September 2023, MITRE hosted a Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) titled Building Resilience to Cognitive Warfare with participants from MITRE, the Department of Defense, and the Australian Defense Force, whic h focused on securing the cognitive domain, including identifying national-level partnerships and innovation opportunities. This paper explores the emerging importance of cognitive security in the face ...
- Cybersecurity for satellites is a growing challenge, as threats to space-based infrastructure grow
February 20, 2024
In today’s interconnected world, space technology forms the backbone of our global communication, navigation and security systems. Satellites orbiting Earth are pivotal for everything from GPS navigation to international banking transactions, making them indispensable assets in our daily lives and in global infrastructure. However, as our dependency on these celestial guardians escalates, so too does their ...
- U.S. conducted cyberattack on suspected Iranian spy ship
February 16, 2024
The United States recently conducted a cyberattack against an Iranian military ship that had been collecting intelligence on cargo vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, according to three U.S. officials. The operation was intended to inhibit the Iranian ship’s ability to share intelligence with Houthi rebels in Yemen who have been firing ...
- US military notifies 20,000 of data breach after cloud email leak
February 14, 2024
The U.S. Department of Defense is notifying tens of thousands of individuals that their personal information was exposed in an email data spill last year. According to the breach notification letter sent out to affected individuals on February 1, the Defense Intelligence Agency — the DOD’s military intelligence agency — said, “numerous email messages were inadvertently ...
- South Korea: KF-21 Fighter Jet Technology Leak Attempt Raises Concerns Over Diplomatic Tensions
February 5, 2024
An Indonesian technician working for Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) was caught trying to leak internal documents related to the Korean supersonic fighter jet KF-21 ‘Boramae.’ While no core technology leaks have been confirmed yet, it is known that the individual attempted to extract a substantial amount of data. According to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration and ...
- Researchers remotely exploit devices used to manage safe aircraft landings and takeoffs
February 3, 2024
Criminals could remotely tamper with the data that apps used by airplane pilots rely on to inform safe takeoff and landing procedures, according to fresh research. In a scenario that elicits strong memories of that nail-biting flight scene from Die Hard 2, researchers investigating electronic flight bags (EFBs) found the app used by Airbus pilots was ...
- Ukraine says 2,000 computers of state firm were impacted in cyber attack
February 1, 2024
Ukraine’s state computer emergency response team CERT-UA said on Thursday around 2,000 computers had been affected in the recent cyber attack on an unnamed state-run company. “As part of the detailed study of the cyber threat, the obtained malware samples were examined, the peculiarities of the functioning of the infrastructure of control servers were established, and ...
- Ex-Google CEO’s secret startup to build Ukraine AI-powered $400 kamikaze drones
January 29, 2024
In a groundbreaking venture that was under wraps until the beginning of this month, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has created White Stork, a startup set to revolutionize warfare with its development of low-cost kamikaze drones. Although Storks are normally considered a symbol of peace, there is very little that is peaceful about the objective of ...
- Ukrainian activists launch devastating cyber attack on Russian Space Hydrometeorology Center
January 29, 2024
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, known as “planeta” (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data. Planeta is a state research center that uses space satellite data and ground sources such as radars and stations to provide information and accurate predictions about weather, climate, natural disasters, extreme ...
- Satellites and the specter of IoT attacks
January 26, 2024
In the vast expanse of space, satellites orbit silently, serving as the connected backbone of our modern world. A fast-proliferating network of satellites forms the critical infrastructure that supports global communication, navigation, weather forecasting, defensive operations and more. Today’s global space economy is huge, forecasted to total more than $600 billion annually in 2024. Internet of ...
- EASA Partners with IATA to Counter Safety Threat from GNSS Spoofing & Jamming
January 26, 2024
Cologne – The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced the conclusions of a workshop jointly hosted at EASA’s headquarters to combat incidents of GNSS spoofing and jamming. The workshop’s high-level conclusion was that interference with satellite-based services that provide information on the precise position of an aircraft can ...
- Russian hackers attack Ukraine MoD resources
January 25, 2024
Cyber attacks by Russian government-funded groups on the resources run by the Ministry of Defense using phishing, distribution of remote code execution malware, and blocking of access to web resources have been recorded. “Last day, attacks on Ukraine’s government and commercial sectors were recorded. Also, attacks by Russia-funded hacker groups were launched on the resources of ...
- Denmark allocates €12 million for cyber security in Ukraine’s Armed Forces and Defence Ministry within IT coalition
January 24, 2024
Denmark has announced assistance worth more than €12 million to develop the cyber resilience of the systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. As part of the new Ramstein-format meeting on 23 January, Denmark and other member countries of the IT coalition signed a cooperation agreement that outlines the ...
- OpenAI Lifts Military Ban, Opens Doors to DOD for Cybersecurity Collaboration
January 22, 2024
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16, it was revealed that OpenAI and the Department of Defense will be collaborating on artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity technology. The news has broader implications than just those in the cyber or AI realms: before last week, OpenAI had resisted sanctioning use of its popular ChatGPT application ...
- Ukrainian hackers steal construction plans for 500 Russian military sites
January 18, 2024
Hackers from the group Blackjack, purportedly affiliated with Ukraine’s SBU security service, have breached a Russian state enterprise involved in construction work for the Russian military, and downloaded over 1.2 TB of data, a Ukrainian law enforcement source told NV on Jan. 18. The data from Russia’s Main Military Construction Directorate for Special Projects included more ...