Stuxnet cyberattack by US a 'destabilizing and dangerous' course of action, security expert Bruce Schneier says

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	Stuxnet cyberattack by US a 'destabilizing and dangerous' course of action, security expert Bruce Schneier says Revelations by The New York Times that President Barack Obama in his role as commander in chief ordered the Stuxnet cyberattack against Iran's uranium-enrichment facility two years ago in cahoots with Israel is generating controversy, with Washington in an uproar over national-security leaks. But the important question is whether this covert action of sabotage against Iran, the first known major cyberattack authorized by a U.S. president, is the right course for the country to take. Are secret cyberattacks helping the U.S. solve geo-political problems or actually making things worse? 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In this Issue Commercial enterprises are putting our critical infrastructure at risk New generation of bank Trojans can make invisible transfers Apple adds emergency alert notifications with iOS 6 Some thoughts on transparency in the cloud Bromium's Microvisor Technology Seeks to Solve Security Issues US wants inventive ways to get research out of university labs and into the real world Report: Flame part of US-Israeli cyberattack campaign against Iran Data in possible credit card breach appears to be old WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Tips to Precisely Measure Packet Loss Packet loss is increasingly problematic for companies looking to lower DR costs by performing data replication over the WAN. This paper discusses the inaccuracies of measuring packet loss with ICMP (i.e. ping method) and explains how to mitigate this risk with proper packet loss measuring tools. Learn more. Commercial enterprises are putting our critical infrastructure at risk Cybercriminals have already figured out how to hack into enterprise infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure that controls our nation's supply of water, gas, oil and electricity just might be next. Read More New generation of bank Trojans can make invisible transfers Improved online bank security has driven cybercriminals to start using a type of Trojan tool that automates money theft from compromised accounts in ways that are invisible to account holders, Trend Micro has discovered. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The iEverything Enterprise Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time. Learn more. Apple adds emergency alert notifications with iOS 6 During Apple's WWDC keynote last week, Apple senior VP of iOS software Scott Forstall took the wraps off of iOS 6 and showed off a number of new features including enhanced Siri functionality, deep Facebook integration, the Passbook app, and of course, a revamped Maps app with a nifty little 3D flyover effect and (finally!) built-in turn-by-turn directions. Read More Some thoughts on transparency in the cloud David Lingenfelter from Fiberlink is on enough working groups about "Cloud" to float away, if he so desired. From the Cloud Security Alliance to NIST Cloud groups, the man knows the players on the circuit. He recently gave a talk about cloud. I know, another talk about the bloody cloud. Will they ever stop? David's talk was better than most, though. He didn't treat his audience like idiots,... Read More WHITE PAPER: ADTRAN Traditional WLAN vs. ADTRAN's Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN) The substantial differences between a traditional hardware controller-based wireless LAN and ADTRAN's virtual wireless LAN (hypervisor-based) are detailed in ADTRAN's WLAN vs. vWLAN comparison chart. Learn more. Bromium's Microvisor Technology Seeks to Solve Security Issues When Simon Crosby, one of the founders of virtualization pioneer Xen left Citrix a while back, many in the industry could not wait to see what he would do next. When it was announced that his new company was to be called Bromium, everyone assumed it would be cloud/virtualization related. There were high hopes for the company and a lot of speculation about what Bromium would actually do. Today the veil... Read More US wants inventive ways to get research out of university labs and into the real world The federal government funded some $135 billion in research and development (R&D) for all manner of science and technology and is now looking for a way to get a faster return on such investments. Or at least that was the focus of a congressional Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation hearing this week looking for ways to improve collaboration between commercial concerns and nonprofit organizations,... Read More Report: Flame part of US-Israeli cyberattack campaign against Iran The highly sophisticated Flame malware was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israeli governments in preparation for a cybersabotage campaign to disrupt Iran's nuclear fuel enrichment efforts, according to a media report. Read More Data in possible credit card breach appears to be old A batch of names, addresses, emails and phone numbers of credit card customers around the world released on Monday indicates a breach of a payment processor, but the data appears old. Read More
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