China "resolutely opposes" US curbs on IT imports - state media

          China expressed "resolute opposition" and "strong dissatisfaction" with a new U.S. cyber-espionage rule limiting imports of Chinese-made IT products, state media reported on Saturday. The remarks underscore growing tension between the world's top two economies after the United States accused China of backing a string of hacking attacks on U.S. companies and government agencies.  China says the accusation lacks proof and that it is also a victim of hacking attacks, more than half of which originate from the US.

The new provision, tucked into a funding bill signed into law on Thursday, requires NASA, as well as the Justice and Commerce Departments, to seek approval from federal law enforcement officials before buying information technology systems from China. The United States imports about $129 billion worth of "advanced technology products" from China, according to a May 2012 report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service.

State media including Xinhua, the China Daily and the People's Daily, quoted a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce as saying the U.S. bill "sends a very wrong signal". "This will directly impact partnerships of Chinese enterprises and American business as they conduct regular trade," said Shen Danyang, the commerce ministry spokesman. "This abuse of so-called national security measures is unfair to Chinese enterprises, and extends the discriminatory practice of presumption of guilt," the article in the official People's Daily said, quoting Shen. "This severely damages mutual trust between the U.S. and China."

The United States should eliminate the law, Shen said. Technology security lawyer Stewart Baker wrote in a blog post this week that China could claim that the United States is violating World Trade Organization rules.

However, because Beijing hasn't signed a WTO agreement setting international rules for government procurement, it may not be successful in its challenge, Baker said. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei also urged the U.S. to abandon the law at a news conference on Thursday. "This bill uses Internet security as an excuse to take discriminatory steps against Chinese companies," he said.

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By 2017 Cyber-security market may reach $870 million

           Global market for cyber-security solutions may grow to USD 870 million by 2017, says research firm IDC. Cyber-criminals use thousands of networked computers (botnets) to 'jam' a website by directing excessive traffic to it, causing it to crash. Such attacks are often termed as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). According to IDC, there was a sharp increase in frequency, volume and orientation of such attacks on websites of leading financial firms and other organisations last year. "As attacks surged in prevalence and sophistication, organisations were often caught unaware. Embedded capabilities were quickly overwhelmed and outages were readily apparent on the Web," IDC Vice President (Security Products and Services research) Christian Christiansen said in a statement. This is driving the demand for proactive solutions. "The worldwide market for DDoS prevention solutions will grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.2 percent from 2012 through 2017 and reach USD 870 million," it added.

Expansion of cloud services and mobile networks could create additional targets for DDoS attacks. While firewalls, intrusion protection and other devices can mitigate low-level attacks, large volumetric attacks can be an issue as these may be unable to separate legitimate from illegitimate traffic. According to security solutions provider Symantec, in the late 1990s, networks of zombie machines were used to knock websites offline, making them unusable for customers - often preventing e-commerce. In 2007, Internet in Estonia was shut down due to attacks through botnet. Georgia was severely disabled by botnets in 2008. Networks of 'zombie' computers are flourishing across the world, and India is one of the most-infected countries. 

About 25 percent of bot-infected computers in India were located in tier-II cities, according to last year's Symantec Internet Security Threat Report XVII. While organisations need to engage with their Internet Service Provider (ISP) and invest in solutions, consumers also need to ensure that their security solution is updated to prevent such attacks, Symantec said.

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Solved Data card problem in backtrack

I hope this will help for u Friends

1. Download the Huawei E173 drive for linux. I found it here.

http://api.ning.com/files/WiLlKMEXsshwGRxhYryQQ1wgedaRGT7HBXzRDZP9WMdgQvVsUgWIp6t9NnmRGdCvJuDtMVQUnDVw1TJolU0oItqgxqovlwnS/Linux.zip

2. Unzip the linux.zip file in a convenient location, for instance on the desktop. Upon decompressing you'll have a new folder: ~/Desktop/Linux/

3. Right click on each individual file in the folder ~/Desktop/Linux/, chose >> Proprieties >> Permissions - read and write all + check on "Allow executing as a program"

4. Open a terminal window (CTRL+ALT+t) and write in command line:
Code:
cd ~/Desktop/Linux/
then
Code:
sudo ./install
and press Enter on all questions.

The Huawei E173 driver will install (the default installation path is in /usr/local/) together with a specific connection program called Moviestar 3.5G/Mobile Partner (program which we will ignore for the future. If it pops up, you can close it with absolutely no problem).

good luck

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Govt. orders probe into reports of DRDO computers hack

Even though DRDO denies claims that its computers were not hacked, the Indian government has ordered a probe into the matter.

Defence Minister AK Antony has ordered probe into reports that Chinese hackers had hacked the computers of highly-sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and gained access to critical information. While talking to the media, AK Antony said "Intelligence agencies are investigating the matter at this stage and I do not want to say anything else." According to an Economic Times rpeort, the Union minister had directed Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma to conduct investigation and submit a report. DRDO, in the meanwhile, has rejected reports that its computers were hacked. "As per available information, no incidence of breach of security of DRDO's computers has come to notice. Appropriate measures are in place for safety and security of computer systems,” said DRDO spokesperson Ravi Gupta. Earlier, various media reports claimed the government had suffered one of the biggest attacks by hackers. It was feared some sensitive information could have been compromised.

The alleged breach came to light in the first week of March when officials from India’s technical intelligence wing, National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), working with private Indian cyber security experts cracked open a file called “army cyber policy”. According to reports, the file had been attached to hacked e-mail accounts of senior DRDO officials. It's not the first time such incidents of data breach have occurred. In the recent past, Defence Ministry has taken various measures to prevent breach of sensitive information related to armed forces. The Indian Navy recently took action against some of its officers in the Eastern Command after their networks were found breached. Last year, the Army headquarters reportedly released new cyber security guidelines. The Army described pen drives as one of the major threats to the country's cyber security. "These pen drives, which are mostly manufactured in China, have emerged as a big threat to our cyber security systems," said the Army.

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Record-breaking cyber attack by anti-spam group - global inernet was slowed

A record-breaking cyber attacktar geting an anti-spam watchdog group has sent ripples of disruption coursing across the Web, experts said on Wednesday. Spamhaus, a site responsible for keeping ads for counterfeit Viagra and bogus weight-loss pills out of the world's inboxes, said it had been buffeted by the monster denial-of-service attack since mid-March, apparently from groups angry at being blacklisted by the Swiss-British group. "It is a small miracle that we're still online," Spamhaus researcher Vincent Hanna said.

Denial-of-service attacks overwhelm a server with traffic - like hundreds of letters being jammed through a mail slot at the same time. Security experts measure those attacks in bits of data per second. Recent cyber attacks - like the ones that caused persistent outages at U.S. banking sites late last year - have tended to peak at 100 billion bits per second. But the furious assault on Spamhaus has shattered the charts, clocking in at 300 billion bits per second, according to San Francisco-based CloudFlare Inc., which Spamhaus has enlisted to help it weather the attack. "It was likely quite a bit more, but at some point measurement systems can't keep up," CloudFlare chief executive Matthew Prince wrote in an email. Patrick Gilmore of Akamai Technologies said that was no understatement. "This attack is the largest that has been publicly disclosed - ever - in the history of the Internet," he said. It's unclear who exactly was behind the attack, although a man who identified himself as Sven Olaf Kamphuis said he was in touch with the attackers and described them as mainly consisting of disgruntled Russian Internet service providers who had found themselves on Spamhaus' blacklists. There was no immediate way to verify his claim.

He accused the watchdog of arbitrarily blocking content that it did not like. Spamhaus has widely used and constantly updated blacklists of sites that send spam. "They abuse their position not to stop spam but to exercise censorship without a court order," Kamphuis said. Gilmore and Prince said the attack's perpetrators had taken advantage of weaknesses in the Internet's infrastructure to trick thousands of servers into routing a torrent of junk traffic to Spamhaus every second. The trick, called "DNS reflection," works a little bit like mailing requests for information to thousands of different organisations with a target's return address written across the back of the envelopes. When all the organizations reply at once, they send a landslide of useless data to the unwitting addressee. Both experts said the attack's sheer size has sent ripples of disruptions across the Internet as servers moved mountains of junk traffic back and forth across the Web. "At a minimum there would have been slowness," Prince said, adding in a blog post that "if the Internet felt a bit more sluggish for you over the last few days in Europe, this may be part of the reason why."

At the London Internet Exchange, where service providers exchange traffic across the globe, spokesman Malcolm Hutty said his organization had seen "a minor degree of congestion in a small portion of the network." But he said it was unlikely that any ordinary users had been affected by the attack. Hanna said his site had so far managed to stay online, but warned that being knocked off the Internet could give spammers an opening to step up their mailings - which may mean more fake lottery announcements and pitches for penny stocks heading to people's inbox's. Hanna denied claims that his organisation had behaved arbitrarily, noting that his group would lose its credibility if it started flagging benign content as spam. "We have 1.7 billion people who watch over our shoulder," he said. "If we start blocking emails that they want, they will obviously stop using us."

Gilmore of Akamai was also dismissive of the claim that Spamhaus was biased.

"Spamhaus' reputation is sterling," he said.

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