Blog Posts Tagged with "Cyberwar"
Expect New Wave of Cyber Attacks Against Banking
September 26, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
A possible Iranian cyber offensive against US banks has been discussed recently, and immediately denied by government of Teheran. Financial institutions are targets for a cyber attacks, as the banking system is a critical asset for a nation and its paralysis could damage economic activities...
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Iran Increasing Tensions: Cyber Perspective
September 24, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
A massive cyber attack could increase hostilities, anticipating a conventional strike, but the Government of Teheran is showing awareness of risks related to a cyber attack and it has started a massive propaganda campaign to show to the western world its cyber capabilities...
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Death Match: Peter the Great Versus Sun Tzu
September 21, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
The paper, “Peter the Great Versus Sun Tzu” alleges that a comparison can be made between the varying actors in malware creation. They have broken this down into a battle royal between the “Asians” and the “Eastern Europeans” which is just patently stupid...
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How We Might Wage War in Cyberspace
September 19, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
With the way US forces are distributed globally, cyber capabilities and flexibilities are enhanced. Cyber, both offense and defense, can be launched from anywhere. All Combatant Commanders have liaisons and representative elements with geographic commands, Cyber Command is no different...
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War in Cyberspace is about Definitions
September 18, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
We are stuck in “Definitional Wars” or the struggle to get definitions approved that are not only accurate but widely accepted. A bigger problem is the constant evolution of technology and terminology, by the time a definition is published, it is usually obsolete...
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State-Sponsored Attacks or Not? That's the Question...
September 18, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Despite the use of cyber weapons and the damage caused by offensive operations being major concerns for intelligence agencies, clues are frequently discovered about attacks designed to steal sensitive information and intellectual property. Who is behind these cyber attacks?
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What Will the Impact of a Massive Attack in Cyberspace Be?
September 13, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
In every war, civilians are the victims. If and when a nation state unleashes their cyber forces against another, the initial blow will most likely be crushing. The economy will grind to an immediate halt, and without communications most of what we know will cease to exist...
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Three Days of The Condor... With Malware
September 07, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Pandora’s box has been opened. All the players are taking the field, and many of them may not be ready to play a proper game… Shamoon did it’s thing, but it seems to be more a brute force tool than an elegant piece of code and a slick plan. The blowback though is yet to be determined...
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Tallinn Manual on International Law Applied to Cyber Warfare
September 06, 2012 Added by:Stefano Mele
The Tallinn Manual pays particular attention to international law governing the use of force as an instrument of national policy and laws regulating the conduct of armed conflict, also labeled the law of war, the law of armed conflict, or international humanitarian law...
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OPSEC: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
September 06, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
In the cyber world there is a process called IGL or Intelligence Gain-Loss. Sometimes deploying a new tool would disclose a capability that the US has to gather intelligence, but sometimes the gain outweighs the loss of a source. Ya gotta ask is the juice worth the squeeze?
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Is an International Cyber Regulatory Agency Needed?
August 30, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
An international treaty and regulatory body will not gain much traction in the military academies and think tanks around the world. Why restrict a nation’s options in war fighting – especially when cyber weapons are inexpensive and could reduce the overall level of force required to achieve an end goal?
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The Right to Keep and Bear Cyber Arms
August 29, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
With all the media hype over Stuxnet, cyber war and cyber weapons – should US citizens be legally allowed to own and use these weapons in accordance with their 2nd Amendment rights? Why shouldn’t Americans be allowed to actively defend themselves against online electronic risks as well as physical threats?
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Who's Responsible for the Saudi Aramco Network Attack?
August 28, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Iran is at the center of every significant aspect of this attack. It is the only nation with access to the original Wiper virus from which Shamoon was copied. Perhaps Iran has learned something from Russia about the strategy of misdirection via the government's recruitment of patriotic hackers...
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U.S. Admits to Cyber Attacks: The Future of Conflict
August 28, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
“As a commander in Afghanistan in the year 2010, I was able to use my cyber operations against my adversary with great impact... I was able to get inside his nets, infect his command-and-control, and in fact defend myself against his almost constant incursions to get inside my wire, to affect my operations...”
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Cyberwar! Let’s Work Through This, Shall We...
August 28, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
So what is cyberwar? Most people feel that some country is going to launch attacks against another, trying to blind their military, mute the government and make life incredibly miserable for their citizens. If the attack is successful, part of the economic base will probably be permanently destroyed...
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Potential Collateral Damage from an Israeli First Strike on Iran
August 26, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Carbon whiskers unleashed to disable transformers? Oh yes. Just a few grams got released into the atmosphere and shorted out transformers throughout the Pacific Northwest. I do not like the idea of kilograms of this escaping the target area. It could be decades before power grids are free of this menace...
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