Former Microsoft employee arrested over Windows 8 leaks | Technology. A former Microsoft employee has been arrested in Seattle, accused of leaking Windows 8 to a tech blogger. Alex Kibkalo, once a software architect for the Redmond, Washington-based company, sent the French blogger parts of Windows 8 code, as well as the kit required to activate the software, according to the charging papers. The blogger then posted screenshots of the unreleased software online. Although the blogger only posted screenshots of Windows 8 (which spread widely online), Kibkalo also stands accused of encouraging them to post the activation kit, a key part of Microsoft’s anti-piracy system. “I would leak enterprise today probably,” Kibkalo reportedly told the unnamed journalist. The blogger responded with: “Hmm… Are you sure you want to do that?
Lol,” and warned Kibkalo that the leak would be “pretty illegal”. Kibkalo allegedly responded with “I know :)” The engineer was caught after the blogger emailed Microsoft to confirm the authenticity of the leaked Windows 8 code. CCD COE - The Tallinn Manual. The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, written at the invitation of the Centre by an independent ‘International Group of Experts’, is the result of a three-year effort to examine how extant international law norms apply to this ‘new’ form of warfare.
The Tallinn Manual pays particular attention to the jus ad bellum, the international law governing the resort to force by States as an instrument of their national policy, and the jus in bello, the international law regulating the conduct of armed conflict (also labelled the law of war, the law of armed conflict, or international humanitarian law). Related bodies of international law, such as the law of State responsibility and the law of the sea, are dealt within the context of these topics. The Tallinn Manual is not an official document, but instead an expression of opinions of a group of independent experts acting solely in their personal capacity. Open publication - Free publishing - More cyber.
CSI Cyber Online Testing. Alarming Trend of Cybersecurity Breaches and Failures in the U.S. Government. Senate. IMF cyber attack aimed to steal insider information: expert. A major cyber attack on the IMF aimed to steal sensitive insider information, a cyber security expert said on Sunday, as the race to lead the body which oversees global financial system heated up. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is helping to investigate the attack on the International Monetary Fund, the latest in a rash of cyber break-ins that have targeted high-profile companies and institutions. "The IMF attack was clearly designed to infiltrate the IMF with the intention of gaining sensitive 'insider privileged information'," cyber security specialist Mohan Koo, who is also Managing Director, Dtex Systems (UK), told Reuters in London. A June 8 internal memo from Chief Information Officer Jonathan Palmer told staff the Fund had detected suspicious file transfers and that an investigation had shown a desktop computer "had been compromised and used to access some Fund systems.
" He said it could inspire attacks on other large institutions. CIA Director Leon Panetta told the U.S.