Blog Posts Tagged with "Defense"
Air Force Vice Commander: Everyone is Focused on Cyber
April 20, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The enemy will be inside our networks for malice, curiosity, or just for the challenge. We must prioritize our defense efforts with a mission assurance approach... Cyberspace is a part of every war fight, every mission that we're in. Everyone is focused on cyber...."
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DoD to Expand International Cybersecurity Cooperation
April 16, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“I think it’s very important to do as much as we can to prevent and mitigate the threat at home, but we can only get so far acting unilaterally. We have to act in concert… with countries around the world to address this problem...”
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Projectile Dysfunction
April 14, 2012 Added by:Ron Baklarz
Was it me or when they showed the North Korean Space Control Center did it not look like a group of students at a code fest? Seriously, there were no large screens for tracking and I’ve seen more computing power at the local senior citizens home...
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DoD Comments on Cyberwar and the Law of Armed Conflict
April 13, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“We’re trying to think about cyber operations as a new form of policy tool that gives the president or the secretary of defense new options. We’re not actively looking to mount operations in cyberspace... We want to do it only when appropriate and when there’s a good reason to.."
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Army's First Dedicated Cyber Brigade Now Operational
March 19, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"It’s a very complex threat—pervasive, evolving, highly intelligent, very adaptive to our countermeasures. It ranges from nation-states to non-nation-state actors, criminal elements and individual hackers... It’s a wide and varied threat we have to defend against..."
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US Strategic Command on Defending Cyberspace
February 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
DoD networks and personnel are being tested to the very limits of their ability to deflect assault. Attackers all over the world are utilizing every conceivable method to gain access to our critical systems and introduce malicious code to exploit or destroy our assets...
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Intelligence Leaders Urge Congress to Act on Cyber Laws
February 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Among the greatest challenges in cyber security are knowing the perpetrator of a cyber attack in real time and finding capability gaps in the cyber supply chain – the entire set of key actors involved in the cyber infrastructure...
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Evidence of Chinese Attacks on US Defense Contractors
January 30, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
At least six Chinese IP addresses were used to proxy or host the command and control servers. The Netbox webserver is mainly used by those who speak Chinese. In fact, all the documentation to setup and learn the framework is only available in Mandarin...
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Symantec: Chinese Connection to Attacks on Defense Contractors
January 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The data Symantec published reinforces evidence from an earlier investigation conducted by AlienVault, which described an orchestrated sprear-phishing campaign most likely targeting information on US drone technology which utilized malware-infected PDF documents to deliver the Sykipot payload...
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Dutch Council on Int'l Affairs' Advice on Digital Warfare
January 23, 2012 Added by:Matthijs R. Koot
In December 2011 the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs published an advisory entitled "Digitale Oorlogsvoering" (English: "Digital Warfare") intended for the Dutch government. Below is my translation of the conclusions and recommendations of the advisory...
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On Defending Networks
January 13, 2012 Added by:Gabriel Bassett
If we can secure areas of the world existing in at least 3 domains (land, air, and space) if not four (adding sea), then we should easily be able to train to defend networks existing in a single domain (digital)...
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Cyber War Will Not Take Place
October 20, 2011 Added by:Dan Dieterle
This is, hands down, one of the best arguments I have seen that there has been no cyber war in the past, there currently is no cyber war going on today, and a cyber war will probably not take place in the future...
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Air Force Drones Were Hit by Online Gaming Malware
October 18, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The UAV drone system were not the target of the malware. Instead, according to an anonymous defense official, the malware discovered was the kind that is “routinely used to steal log-in and password data from people who gamble or play games like Mafia Wars online..."
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A Stuxnet Apocalypse?
September 13, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
"Could a Stuxnet-like system affect the production and development of a nuclear weapon? Yes and no. Yes as in it certainly could screw up enrichment, obviously, but wouldn’t screw up the end-result - hence why Stuxnet was found in the first place..."
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Stuxnet Could Be Modified to Undermine Nuclear Weapons
September 12, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Nuclear warheads are controlled by computers so if someone managed to slip a worm inside a facility that will reach the warhead component, they could launch it and than aim it back at the country’s facility... Stuxnet is the first cyber weapon that could cause major disruption...:
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DARPA Calls for Innovation to Protect DoD Systems
August 22, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is requesting information on innovative technologies and approaches to secure the Nation’s infrastructure and to ensure the survival of the Department of Defense’s cyber capabilities in case of attack..."
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