Pretty busy day in cyber news, a quick survey . . .
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Robert Windrem and Jim Miklaszweski reported for NBC News that the Iranian government is targeting Bank of American and JPMorgan Chase with cyberattacks. Although the Iranian hackers allegedly responsible cited the Muhammad video, the article noted that this is a cover for an operation designed to cause “significant and ongoing” damage “in response to U.S. sanctions on Iranian banks.” These Iranian cyberattacks were confirmed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Intelligence Directorate.
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The Japan Times reported on the inevitable cyberattacks on Japanese websites, by patriotic Chinese hackers, over the Senkaku Islands . . .
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The AP’s Lolita Baldor, via The Washington Times, reported on SecDef Leon Panetta’s visit to China. According to Baldor, “the U.S. is making little headway in its efforts to tamp down aggressive Chinese cyberattacks” with SecDef Panetta “[bringing up the issue] at every session and [coming] away with little more than agreements to talk again.”
Richard Bejtlich, of cybersecurity firm Mandiant: “The Chinese don’t seem to care. So I don’t have any hope that the dialogue is reaching anyone of any note.”
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Nextgov’s Dana Grinshpan with an interesting question . . . could cyber warfare nullify nuclear weapons? Grinshpan noted that “[c]yber weapons have the capacity to stop or delay a nuclear attack before launch” and could “be relied upon to stop nations from developing or launching nuclear weapons . . ..”
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Nextgov’s Jessica Herrera-Flanigan wrote about how Senator John Rockefeller sent letters to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies asking “about his or her company’s view on cybersecurity and what their specific concerns are with particular issues contained in [cyberscurity] legislation.”
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More from Nextgov on how DHS Secretary Napolitano said that the cybersecurity EO is “close to completion.”
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Bloomberg’s David Lerman reported on how Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter believes that the DoD is still “moving ‘way to slowly’ to protect the U.S. from cyber attacks . . ..”
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I forget who tweeted this, but the U.S. Air Force’s Air Force Instruction on “Legal Reviews Of Weapons And Cyber Capabilities.”
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