How Did A Private Access So Much Classified Info?
An Army Private downloaded hundreds of thousands of classified US government documents and snuck them out on writable CDs. How could this happen?
“Fake Chips Threaten Military” say US Commerce Officials
A recent story in the San Jose Mercury News states that a growing deluge of millions of counterfeit chips is posing peril to the military and the general public. A California company admitted importing 13,000 bogus chips altered to resemble those from legitimate companies, including Silicon Valley firms Intel, Atmel, Altera and National Semiconductor. Separate […]
“The Most Significant Breach Of U.S. Military Computers Ever”
… was caused by a malware-loaded USB Flash Drive. Plugging the cigarette-lighter-sized flash drive into an American military laptop at a base in the Middle East amounted to “a digital beachhead, from which data could be transferred to servers under foreign control,” according to William J. Lynn 3d, deputy secretary of defense. Many security experts […]
SCADA Systems Under Attack
New malware spread on USB flash drives targets the default password on Siemens’ Simatic WinCC software to break in.
Has the IronKey Been Exposed?
A poster named Nexus is claiming that he removed the protective epoxy coating from an IronKey secure USB flash drive and it still works. Photos of the chips on the device are shown here and here. What is interesting to me is that to get the FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certification that the device has, […]
Secure Flash Drives Which Are
Several weeks ago I blogged about several brands of USB flash drives which were all breached in the same way. The rumor mill has it that all of these drives were OEM’d from SanDisk, whose drives have been subject to other hacks in the past. SanDisk and Verbatim maintain that a software update is sufficient to […]
Secure Flash Drives Which Aren’t
Three brands of secure flash drives easily can be unlocked due to an implementation flaw.
Who Owns Your Information? (Volume III)
A laptop crammed with secret data was stolen from inside the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) nerve center — and so was the key to unlock it. Oops!
Who Owns Your Information? (Unfortunately, Part of a Series)
A hacker was able to break into the database of RockYou, which provides applications and services for social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. If you use any of their applications, you are toast.
Your Slip Is Showing… Again!
ChoicePoint suffered a security breach in 2008 after they had already been ordered by a federal court to impose a data monitoring system. Unfortunately, someone turned it off for 4 months.
