Trending Security News

The news this week had a science fiction style with reports that the Japanese Defense Ministry is nearing completion of a "seek-and-destroy" computer virus capable of disabling cyberattacks at their source. The Register headlined its coverage: Japan tasks Fujitsu with creating search-and-destroy cyber-weapon. The Security News Daily ran Experts Fear Japanese Counter-Virus Could Backfire with a a photo of the 1950s Japanese movie monster Godzilla stomping through power lines. Infosec Island reported on the risks of cyberwarfare: Defense Secretary Panetta: Cyber Attack Could Paralyze US.

Cyber Weapons Getting Attention from Governments in Japan and U.S. 

• Japan tasks Fujitsu with creating search-and-destroy cyber-weapon – The Register
• Experts Fear Japanese Counter-Virus Could Backfire – Security News Daily
• Defense Secretary Panetta: Cyber Attack Could Paralyze US – Infosec Island
  

Security Research & Intelligence

• Microsoft Researcher: Passwords Aren't Dead but They Need Fixing – Network World
• Keylogging threat could lead to more attacks, say researchers – CNET
• Tech Insight: What To Do When Your Business Partner Is Breached – Dark Reading

Cyber Threat

• Hacker group threatens to release Symantec AV source code – Computerworld
• New Denial-Of-Service Attack Cripples Web Servers By Reading Slowly – Dark Reading
• New virus raids your bank account - but you won't notice – MSNBC
• New Ramnit Variant Is Stealing Facebook Credentials – Threat Post

Government, Legislation & Policy   

• Convicted murderer gets new trial after computer virus destroys data – Naked Security
•  In UK Analytics Software Provides Enhanced (Online) Interrogation For Fraud Suspects – Threat Post
• Piracy 'church' gets approval from Swedish government – MSNBC     

Blog Picks

• My Concerns with CyberSecurity Legislation – no teeth, paper audits, and “security” auditors – Ed Adams, Security Curmudgeon
• New year, same old security passwords – InfoWorld Tech Watch
• How Developers Can Secure their Code? – Shoaib Yousuf  
  

Microsoft Research, Papers and Media

• Cybersecurity/Internet Health
  • Rethinking the Cyber Threat (paper)
  • Collective Defense: Applying Public Health Models to the Internet (paper)
  • Video: Collective Defense: Enabling Healthy Devices (video)
• Security Intelligence
  • Lessons from Least Malware Infected Countries (series)
  • Battling the ZBot Threat (paper)
• Trustworthy Computing
  • Imagine Video: Microsoft Trustworthy Computing (video)
• Cybersecurity/Trusted Supply Chain:
  • Supply Chain Risk Management keynote at the East-West Institute’s Second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit (video)
  • Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Toward a Global Vision of Transparency and Trust (paper)
  • Toward a Trusted Supply Chain: A Risk Based Approach To Managing Software Integrity (paper)