Cyber espionage

[casper]

It seems to me that Obama literally destroys everything in sight (yet and it recognizes), this is the article on which I ran thumb through the daily newspapers.

Russians: Probe and viruses! Obama: We need protocols ...
Americans have admitted that this is a gray area in which no one holds rules because they are not. President Barack Obama said he should develop protocols


Moscow company Cyber ​​Security, Kaspersky, announced that the United States in computers installed hacking equipment, especially for markets in Iran, Pakistan, Russia and China.

It is a sophisticated cyber espionage mechanisms because the software embedded in cooperation with major manufacturers of computers and equipment, such as Toshiba, IBM, Seagate, Samsung and so on. However, Kaspersky in his report was careful not to mention the National Security Agency, whose spy methods discovered by Edward Snowden. But one anonymous former US official confirmed that the US government is developing such software often find themselves deep in the hard drive. Spying on the computers in about 30 countries.

- There is no clear line between defense and attack when it comes to cyber warfare. You will soon come up with some international protocols for this, as we have for nuclear weapons - said US President Barack Obama, who acknowledged that the US is developing offensive cyber weapons.




Usually when something is recognized, then it is more a long time ago already very well developed in many j use !?

 

[Seaniebawn]

Yeah I think sott ran an article not long ago.
Russian researchers discover NSA spying and sabotage software hidden in hard drives
http://www.sott.net/article/292782-Russian-researchers-discover-NSA-spying-and-sabotage-software-hidden-in-hard-drives
and arstechnica.com ran an in dept article on the subject
How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/
the one from arstechnica is a bit technical. some of the comments from the article from arstechnica

wtf? wrote:
zyxtomatic wrote:
Modern Major General Thanatos wrote:
This also makes certain DOD protocols on drive destruction more logical.


As in, destroy the drive rather than wiping it? With revelations like this, I could see many companies requiring physical drive destruction rather than wiping.



No drives are allowed to be sent in from our organization, if they fail, they get destroyed. System outdated? Drives get destroyed.


My clients' drives become targets for high-ish caliber firearms. As guns aren't my thing, this is outsourced, which leaves a degree of uncertainty, but I get 1/x returned to me to verify. It is quite effective -- I've seen the platters completely fused to each other and to the housing.

Now I'm kicking around the idea of getting a better verification of each and every drive's destruction.

Tom West wrote:
Question: Who or what funds Kaspersky Labs?

They must be doing literally millions of dollars of research into various malwares. Given how experts of this caliber are NOT cheap, how do they pay their employees?

I ask only because these sorts of "service for the Internet" have a bad habit of collapsing because we all expect everyone else to pay for them and I'm not certain who is paying for the service that Kapersky provides to us all. (See the funding state of various security-related software development.)


Um, Kaspersky Labs is one of the largest commercial anti-malware companies in the world with revenues over $600 million. They fund this research from the sale of their products and services.



Tom West is suspicious as it's a Russian company, even after the revelations of snowden and manning