Blame Game!

Dropbox Denies It Was Hacked, Says Passwords Stolen From Other Services

On Monday Oct 13, a group of hackers posted a message on Pastebin claiming they have "hacked" nearly 7 million Dropbox accounts. The cloud storage giant said the data was stolen from other services, not from its own systems.

 The hackers have already published hundreds of email addresses and associated passwords in clear text. They claim they will publish more as they get Bitcoin donations, but so far only 0.0001 BTC has been transferred to their address.

ISIS Cyber Ops: Empty Threat or Reality?

 The extremist militant group ISIS’s aggressive global use of social media is acknowledged as a strategic strength in its jihadist war of terror. Assessing ISIS’s potential to go further and do harm to the American homeland through deployment of offensive cyber operations, however, requires a broader perspective.  

Cyber Operations Capability? 

As to whether ISIS will have the capability to mount cyber operations against the U.S., David DeWalt, head of cybersecurity firm FireEye, believes that ISIS will follow in the footsteps of the Syrian Electronic Army and the Iran-based Ajax Security Team to target the United States and other Western nations.

“We’ve begun to see signs that rebel terrorist organizations are attempting to gain access to cyber weaponry,” DeWalt stated recently. He added that booming underground markets dealing in malicious software make offensive cyber weapons just an “Internet transaction” away for groups such as ISIS.

http://www.securityweek.com/isis-cyber-ops-empty-threat-or-reality

http://www.securityweek.com/dropbox-denies-it-was-hacked-says-passwords-stolen-other-services