New revelations about the Stuxnet worm as well as a report about Internet traffic being rerouted through servers in China led security news during the past week. – Cyber-security took a political bent this past week due to discussions of
Stuxnet’s true target and allegations that a Chinese company had caused
Internet traffic to be rerouted through servers in China.
The allegations
against China Telecom were aired in a report to Congress by the
U.S.-Chin…
A Congressional report about an incident in April where 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic was re-routed through servers in China could have reaching implications. – China Telecom, the Chinese wireless service provider at the center
of the recent Internet hijacking charges, has called the accusations
against it “groundless, quot; but that has done little to squash a
controversy that could have reaching implications.
In a report to Congress (PDF),
the U.S….
The Firefox Firesheep extension has helped give birth to a similar tool targeted at Twitter. – A London software developer has followed in the footsteps of the Firesheep extension for Firefox with his own tool targeting Twitter users leveraging open WiFi.
Jonty Wareing’s tool is called quot;Idiocy, quot;
which he describes in a blog post as “a warning shot to people browsing
the intern…
The hijacking of a Chinese ship carrying coal across the Indian Ocean shows that Somalian pirates are expanding their reach beyond the Gulf of Aden, Chinese shippers said. The De Xin Hai, carrying about 76,000 tonnes of coal from South Africa to the port of Mundra, in Gujarat, India,
Expressing satisfaction over the Supreme Court’s verdict acquitting him in the plane hijacking case, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said he is grateful to the ‘almighty Allah’ for the decision.
“Allah has determined the truth and now I would work day night for serving the people of Pakistan,†Sharif said minutes after the apex [...]
Pakistan’s supreme court Friday overturned convictions against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for plane hijacking and terrorism, two months after reversing a ban on the opposition leader’s holding office. Sharif was convicted of “hijacking” a commercial jet carrying Pervez Musharraf
