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VOLUME 15 |
ISSUE 15 |
15
October 2012 |
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Article of the Month |
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Around
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Japan,
ASEAN, team up for cyber defense
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Japan
is planning to deploy a cyber defense network consisting of
Japan and ten ASEAN countries. |
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According to The Daily Yomiuri, this step was taken after a
series of cyber attacks on government web sites and
corporations in this region which was believed to be
originated from China.
According to ZDnet, the Japanese government plans to, |
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Share information on cyber attack patterns and
technologies that can be used to defend against these
originated attacks. |
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Assess the effectiveness of the system for the current
fiscal year. |
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A
system to aid the communication between security
officials of each country in order to share information
on cyber attacks. |
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Create joint counter-measures when an attack is
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Moreover, the defense ministry of Japan revealed plans on
deploying a cyber defense force to fight these cyber attacks
and gather information on computer viruses to study methods
of counter attack. |
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Why use such a
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We live in
an age where it is almost impossible to carry out our daily
tasks without the help of the World Wide Web. The nature of this
medium changed our way of lives completely and there is no
argument about that. Businesses made easy via e-commerce,
boundaries of the social lives of individuals� broken, help on
any subject area at the finger tips of the user, the usage of
the internet is unlimited. From the figure, we can see how it
grew over the past five years and the percentage of the users�
continent wise, where Asia shares more than 50% of the internet
population. |
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[source:
http://hackmageddon.com/2012/10/08/september-2012-cyber-attacks-statistics/] |
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The
Yomiuri Shimbun reports that the ASEAN countries would be
interested on the cyber defense network because their
protection against the rising numbers of cyber attacks
haven�t kept up with the increased use of the computer
equipment that has accompanied economic development.
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defense network of the said sort would ensure a more
secure web surfing environment and a sound knowledgebase
for those facilitate the use of the internet. |
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References: |
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H. Hasitha Shan
Hasitha is a
student of Informatics Institute of Technology undertaking the
B.Eng (Hons) in Software Engineering (in collaboration with
University of Westminster). He currently works as an intern at
Sri Lanka CERT|CC
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Telecom Giant Orange Hacked,
Data leaked by #NullCrew
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By
Lee J
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Published October 7th, 2012
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Recently I wrote about the threat landscape in the European
Union (part
1,
2,
3) and
Africa. This series of
articles is focused on threats in select locations in Asia
(Vietnam, India, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan) and
Oceania (Australia and New Zealand). I am focusing on these
locations as they were the most active locations in the
region during the second half of 2011 (2H11). |
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Sri Lankan team enters Global
CyberLympics World Finals
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Sri Lankan team
�WhiteHat�, having survived stiff competition from regional
giants from the Asia Pacific region, entered the Global
CyberLympics world finals to be held in Miami, Florida in
October.
The Global
CyberLympics is a not-for-profit initiative of the
EC-Council Foundation supported by the Geneva-based
International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Its goal is to
raise awareness towards increased education and ethics in
information security through a series of cyber competitions
that encompass forensics, ethical hacking and defence. The
mission statement of the Global CyberLympics is �Unifying
Global Cyber Defence through the Games�.
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regional qualifying rounds of the competition were conducted
in North America, Europe, Africa, South America, Middle-East
and the Asia Pacific. The Sri Lankan team came out on top in
the Asia Pacific region to reach the finals.
http://www.ft.lk/2012/09/28/sri-lankan-team-enters-global-cyberlympics-world-finals/
http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/09/28/bus15.asp
http://readme.lk/sri-lankan-team-moves-global-cyberlympics/ |
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Hacker group RedHack faces up
to 24 years in prison for terrorist crimes |
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By Mohit Kumar | 10/09/2012 09:31:00
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As
part of an investigation launched by Başsavcıvekilliği in
Ankara on March 20 arrested seven people, including college
students. 13 of the indictment prepared by the prosecutor's
office in Ankara Was adopted by the High Criminal Court.
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Firefox browser in upgrade-downgrade confusion with version
16 |
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by
Paul Ducklin | October 11,
2012 |
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Firefox shipped version 16 earlier this week.
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Month in Brief
Facebook Incidents
Reported to Sri Lanka CERT|CC in September
2012
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Fake +
Harassment |
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Hacked |
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Abuse |
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Other |
Genderwise
Statistics - Sri Lanka CERT|CC |
Alerts
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Microsoft Fixes Critical Word
Flaw in Patch Tuesday Update |
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By Brian Prince | October 09, 2012
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Microsoft has patched a critical vulnerability in Microsoft
Word in today's Patch Tuesday.
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Malware targets bargain
hunters
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By Brian Prince | October 09, 2012
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They
say the best things in life are free. There's another saying
about when stealing, you get what you deserve. When it comes
to software, that's more than what you bargained for. Or so
claims Microsoft, which warns malware writers increasingly
exploit people's desire to get for free something they
should pay for. |
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Security challenges at
universities |
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Dan Kaplan | October 01, 2012 |
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It didn't take
long for Sanjeev Sah, who was hired last fall as CISO of the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, to feel like a
freshman again.
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Notice Board |
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Training and
Awareness Programmes - October 2012 |
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24-29 |
Orientation Program on newly recruited ICT graduate
teachers under the development of 1000 secondary schools
Program - 6th Batch
Sinhala and Tamil separate sessions
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Ruwanpura National College of Education, Wellandura,
Kahawatte |
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4th
National Level School ICT Championship 2012 - Award
Ceremony
Organized by - ICT Branch of Ministry of Education, FITIS
(Federation of IT Inductry in Sri Lanka), CSSL (Computer
Society of Sri Lanka) |
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Sri
Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi Mandira, 32, Sri Sambuddhathwa
Jayanthi Mw, Colombo 05 |
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