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My man Mark Thompson puts up a cheeky post yesterday that I most heartily approved of. In it he speaks of cyberwar worrywarts and rightly fears that, as the terror war recedes in some priority, new little piggies approach the DoD trough. And as these cyberwar advocates find such a prime target in China, I [...]
NYT story on how the Defense Department suffered a massive loss of data during a hack last March. Pentagon won’t say which country is to blame, which makes it either China or Russia. Why tell us now? The cleared version of the new US cyber strategy is being released, as Mark just noted. Odds are [...]
Economist story (6/18) about the recent wave of high-profile attacks by hacker collectives references “SQL injections,” or the technique of penetrating databases of companies, agencies, etc. McAfee, the web security firm, says about half of those it tracked over the first quarter of 2011 were made by Chinese “cyberspies” – a rather imprecise term for [...]
Reader Brad Hancock jumps at the chance to compare my recent Battleland post on the new US cyber strategy with my just-published World Politics Review column. Mr. Hancock comments at my Globlogization site that: Compare this piece in WPR to the one Barnett wrote for Time on the same subject three weeks ago. Time readers were literally told they should [...]
NYT story describing how Obama administration is funding all sorts of shadow networks to thwart government censorship overseas. I think this is fine. [Blank] ‘em if they can’t take the Web – a Defense Department creation, BTW. But understand this: we get all jacked about cyber warfare against our infrastructure (How dare people attack our [...]
China has been pre-approved for kinetic war strikes from the United States at any time. Let me explain how. First off, what the strategy says (according to the same WSJ front-page article Mark cited yesterday): The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that [...]
Fascinating article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal on how the Pentagon has concluded it can defend against, or respond to, cyber attacks with bombs. Fascinating, and typical (Kinetic rules!). Only three problems with it: the Pentagon doesn’t make these kinds of decisions, finding the perpetrator can be next to impossible, and if you bomb, [...]
The experts at the Congressional Research Service have just issued a chilling report entitled The Stuxnet Computer Worm: Harbinger of an Emerging Warfare Capability. Unfortunately, the title is a statement; there’s no question mark at the end. The Stuxnet’s initial target was apparently Iran’s nuclear program, and it’s obvious that someone, somewhere is developing insidious [...]
The Pentagon’s No. 2 official awarded the Navy’s first batch of “information dominance warfare” pins to seven officers at the Naval Academy on Friday. “You’re at the cutting edge of what we’re trying to do,” Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn told the newly-pinned officers. “You’re at the forefront of a real trend in warfare and [...]
