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For several years, reports of ATM skimmer devices have been increasing. These devices are usually designed to fit over the card receptacle on an ATM machine or gas pump or other form of debit/credit card reader. They intercept the card data and may also collect the pin number entered and save the data [...]

A trojan horse backdoor called “Zeus” is being used by a botnet named “Kneber” by researchers. This botnet has been operational for over a year and has compromised many organizations and collected a vast amount of data that was intended to be confidential.
Hackers Mount New Strike - [wsj.com]

Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke [...]

A report prepared by Northrop Grumman on Chinese capability to wage information warfare offers some valuable insights into the nature of professional and national security cyber-attack teams.
REPORT ON CHINESE CYBER WARFARE & ESPIONAGE - [uscc.gov]
“Capability of the People’s Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation”
Prepared for The US-China [...]

Insurgents have learned how to intercept video relays from drones in Iraq and Afghanistan and the vulnerability has existed for some time. Hacking warfare robots will become more of an issue as they become more commonplace. Think about how network hacking techniques can be applied to war scenarios and vice-versa: botnets - [...]

Symantecs MessageLabs Intelligence 2009 Annual Security Report offers some very interesting information about the past year and assumptions about the near future of malware and other security threats. Here are a few teasers that should encourage you to read the entire report:
3.2.4. Command and Control: Mysterious Messages and Covert Channels
In the 12-months since the [...]

CCDC Documentary Preview
CyberWATCH YouTube channel with videos shot and edited from the 2009 CCDC hacker versus students competition
Other CCDC related posts

US cyber-warfare planning and activities have advanced beyond defensive measures. At some point, simply sitting back and waiting for an attack while piling resources into massive firewalls and other defenses, like the Maginot Line in WWII, no longer makes sense. It becomes necessary to develop at least an awareness of offensive techniques in [...]

German magazine Der Spiegel describes how a computer hack by the Israeli foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, enabled Israel to identify and eventually destroy a Syrian nuclear installation.
How Israel Destroyed Syria’s Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor - [spiegel.de]

In late 2006, Israeli military intelligence decided to ask the British for their opinion. But almost at the same [...]

This thoroughly researched paper by Dave Dittrich at the University of Washington, reflects on how malware and cyber criminals have evolved their techniques and activites over recent years. Hybrid combinations of penetration methods make it more difficult to defend against the malware and good use of social engineering increases the success percentage.
Nugache [...]

The SMBv2 vulnerability that has been lurking for several weeks now has exploit code available from both Canvas and Metasploit:
Remote exploit released for Windows Vista SMB2 worm hole - [zdnet.com]
[Canvas]
Security researchers at penetration testing firm Immunity have created a reliable remote exploit capable of spawning a worm through an unpatched security hole in Microsoft’s dominant [...]