Kevin G. Coleman

Hacktivists Post Former Treasurer Secretary’s Personal Data

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The Internet’s increasing role in empowering ad hoc protest groups took a new turn this week when hackers supportive of the Occupy Wall Street protests released personal information about former U.S. Treasury Secretary and ex-Goldman Sachs co-chairman, Robert Rubin.

Hackers who have aligned themselves with the online activist group known as Anonymous have been targeting chief executives officers at leading banks, including JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, where Rubin had also serviced as a director and senior counselor, looking for personal information to post to the Internet. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 26, 2011 at 5:07 PM

Cyber Intelligence: Cyber Intelligence At The Executive Level

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The cyber threats we face today routinely transcend industries, geographic boarders as well as government, military, and business domains. The impact of the aggressive cyber attacks we have witnessed recently, however, have become so substantial that it has now reached priority status in the executive suite.

“C” level executives are now routinely involved when their organizations experience one of these attacks. That is a departure from what we have seen. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM

Cyber Intelligence: A Cyber Alliance?

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Reports of North Korea launching cyber attacks on South Korea continue. At the same time North Korea is said to be behind a recent group of cyber attacks on the United States as well.

Some experts familiar with these attacks say they are tests of North Korea’s newly developed cyber weapons, but with most cyber attacks knowing who is behind the attack (attribution) and possibly why they chose to attack continue to be illusive questions. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 15, 2011 at 9:08 AM

Cyber Intelligence: The Economic Impact of Shady Rat

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Some say the ability of the United States to wage war is by far the most advanced in the world. Strategists have for years claimed that our technology and superior training of our personnel are what really gives the U.S. the edge in modern day conflict. No truer words have been spoken when it comes to the new fifth domain, cyberspace.

However, there is an aspect related to the acts of cyber aggression and espionage that has not received much attention. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Cyber Intelligence Blog: Reassessing The Threat

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The world has become addicted to the Internet and all its vast expanse has to offer. Experts have forecast that in 2014 there will be upwards of 2.5 billion devices connected to the Internet.

Whether you access it via a desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, game console or other device the socializing, services and content has addicted all of us. This addiction is why criminals, activists, terrorists and rogue nation states have turned the Internet into a weapon. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 13, 2011 at 7:00 AM
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