Items Tagged with "Military"
Chinese Network Operations and Cyber Espionage Capabilities
March 09, 2012 Added by:Stefano Mele
Developments in Chinese network operations applications and research and development point to a nation fully engaged in leveraging all available resources to create a technically advanced ability to operate in cyberspace as a means of meeting military and civilian goals...
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Northrop Report Examines Chinese Information Warfare Strategies
March 08, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"PLA leaders have embraced the idea that successful warfighting is predicated on the ability to exert control over an adversary’s information and information systems, often preemptively. This goal has effectively created a new strategic and tactical high ground..."
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North Korea’s Cyber War Forces
March 06, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
North Korean Students that show aptitude are selected from elementary schools and are groomed in cyber warfare throughout their college years. They constantly hone their skills and even attend foreign colleges to learn the latest security techniques...
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The Chinese Government and PLA’s Use of Information Warfare
March 04, 2012
Conclusions of the research and analysis indicate that there is a direct and quantifiable historical linkage between the People’s Republic of China and cyber warfare. This correlation is divided into three sectors as a nation state information warfare initiative...
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The Need for a Special Forces Offensive Cyber Group
February 21, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Nation State hackers are active in attacking and compromising military, government and defense contractor sites. Terrorists are using social media sites to recruit, train and spread their poison. In essence we are in a Cyber Cold War. We need a Cyber Special Forces group...
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Antivirus Ban for Iran: A Controversial Penalty
February 20, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Iran will be banned from the purchase of antivirus systems, a technological embargo with clear implications for the Stuxnet virus attacks and the need to prevent further infections to control systems for critical infrastructures, namely their nuclear programs...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cyberwar
February 16, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Sure, there are potential issues with regard to infrastructure and hacking/warfare, but, it is not such that we need to frame it and clothe it in the ripped flag of 9/11 do we? Obviously these guys all think so. I would beg to differ, and I find it shameful...
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Iran Successfully Eradicates Stuxnet Virus Infestation
February 15, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"I would assume that once Iran learned of Stuxnet, then intelligence agencies looked at this method of cyber attack as compromised regardless of how long it has taken Iran to neutralize it. It is a cat and mouse game..."
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Iran Remains Defiant in Confronting Cyber Attacks
February 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Iranian experts possess adequate knowledge to confront cyber threats. All nuclear facilities in the country are immune from cyber attacks... Many viruses are produced in the world every day... there has been no destructive impact inside the country," said Gholam-Reza Jalali...
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US Confirms Iran Did Not Hack RQ-170 Stealth Drone
February 13, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
A congressional official has confirmed that Iran did not bring down the drone with it’s “cyber warfare” skills. Information from a 10 week CIA review seems to point to a malfunctioning data stream. Information from the faulty stream may have led the drone operator to land the UAV...
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Real Bullets for Digital Attacks
February 09, 2012 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
In May of last year, the US Government published its International Strategy for Cyberspace. The publication made some waves in the international community because in this document the US stated that military reprisals to cyber attacks were now officially on the table...
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Syrian Drama and the Impact on Cyberspace
February 07, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Cyberspace is comparable to a stormy sea in which you navigate by sight, and where the scenarios are changing rapidly in an unpredictable way by the presence of uncontrolled entities such as cyber hacktivists, in addition to cyber armies set up by the main world powers...
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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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E-Meme: The Next Generation of Thought Crime Detection?
January 25, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
An Orwellian software development project that the Navy has invested in called “E-MEME” will be able to sift through the internet for ideas and meme’s to analyze them for predictive behavior assessment. Predictive behavioral analysis via meme’s... Whatever could go wrong?
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American Defense Operations and Cyberspace
January 24, 2012
"Space and cyberspace operations likely will commence well in advance of other operations. In fact, even in the absence of open conflict, operations to gain and maintain cyberspace superiority and space control will be continuous requirements..."
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The Chinese Cyber Threat: Japan Under Attack
January 23, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
China is a cyber power capable of destroying most any opponent, especially when going against companies in trouble because of the difficult economy situation. These companies are the most vulnerable members of the security chain and therefore a favorite target...