Blog Posts Tagged with "Military"
Dutch MoD Innovation Competition 2012: CYBER Operations 2.0
May 16, 2012 Added by:Matthijs R. Koot
The Dutch Ministry of Defense's (MoD) annually issues a "Defense Innovation Competition" is a competition that is intended to get input from and foster relations with Dutch industry and SME. This year's theme is "CYBER Operations 2.0"...
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Defense Industrial Base Cyber Security Program
May 14, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The United States continues to face a significant risk that critical Defense information networks can be compromised by malicious actors resulting in economic losses or damage to national security. The DIB CS/IA Program is designed to improve DIB network defenses...
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Pentagon CIO Discusses DoD's Cyber Defense Strategy
May 11, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"We deal with all aspects of cyber security. How to defend all our information. We have a lot of R&D to protect. There are those who want to get in and maliciously disable or damage or change information. We’re so heavily dependent on our network for a national security role..."
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Panetta Treads Lightly Around Chinese Cyber Attacks
May 10, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"I can hardly agree with the proposition that the cyber attacks directed to the United States are directly coming from China. And during the meeting, Secretary Panetta also agreed on my point that we cannot attribute all the cyber attacks in the United States to China..."
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China vs. Philippines: Cyberwar or Hacktivism?
May 03, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
While attention is focused on Iran and its quarrel with the West, other silent battles are being fought. In the last month, there has been a surprising level of activity between China and the Philippines, with reciprocal attacks via bits and bytes. Are we witnessing a cyber conflict?
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Did Iran Recover Encrypted Data from Downed Stealth Drone?
May 02, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Iranian officials recently released claims that they have finished their reverse engineering of the downed US stealth drone and will begin to make a copy. The Iranians released information they say was encrypted flight and maintenance data from internal databases...
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Chinese Military Advocates Cyber Offensive Capability
May 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“If this represents the official line of thinking, this means that the prospects are not good that a limited conflict in a Taiwan Straits would remain localized to that geography without escalating into an all-out war,” said Chinese cyber warfare expert Dmitri Alperovitch...
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Cyber Warriors Shine in NSA Competition
May 01, 2012 Added by:Headlines
During the competition, NSA network specialists and military network experts formed the red cell team that challenged cadet blue cell teams to defend a closed-computer network that the cadets designed, built and configured at their respective academies...
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Iran vs. The West: Cyberwar or Media Hype?
April 27, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The growing tension between Iran, the U.S. and Israel does not bode well, however the reports persistently circulated on the Internet don't add anything new to a scenario that has long been known. Iran has long understood how strategic a strong presence in cyber space is...
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House Testimony: Iran Preparing Attacks on U.S. Infrastructure
April 26, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Cybersecurity experts will testify before Congress today on the high probability that the Iranian government is engaged in building a cyber offensive force geared towards attacks against critical U.S. infrastructure targets including power and water distribution facilities...
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Air Force Wins NSA's 12th Annual Test of Cyber Defense
April 25, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The cybersecurity skills and ingenuity of students from the U.S. service academies, the Air Force Institute of Technology, and the Royal Military College of Canada were put to the test by the National Security Agency's top information assurance professionals...
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Military Evaluates SIPRNet Smart Card to Protect Networks
April 24, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"As we learned through the events of Wiki Leaks, we had a blind spot in protecting our classified networks... We have a national strategy and program to implement a Public Key Infrastructure hardware based authentication system on the classified network - hence the SIPRNet token..."
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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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Air Force Commander Discusses Cyber Operations
April 19, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"My mission focus, [is] just like in any other domain - whether it is ground, sea, air or space - the same is true for cyber: we are responding to orders and guidance that support this nation in its responsibilities and national security efforts around the globe..."
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Officials Examine the Militarization of Cyberspace
April 16, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"If there is significant information of a cyber-event, we reserve the right to use tools in our toolbox,. When does a cyber-attack achieve critical level? When one can attribute an attack that deliberately causes loss of life," a U.S. official stated...
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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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