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Ex-Intel chief: U.S. would lose cyber war

24 February 2010

The Hill, 23 Feb 10: A former intelligence chief warned lawmakers Tuesday the U.S. would lose a cyber war waged today. John Michael McConnell, a former Navy vice admiral and director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush, told the Senate Commerce Committee at a hearing Tuesday afternoon that the United States was the [...]

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Report on the Operation of the Iran Cyber Army in Hacking Websites

23 February 2010

Payvand, 22 Feb 10: During the past few months, the activities of Iran’s Cyber Army have been noted by the Iranian and even the international media. The theory that these hacker groups are connected to the Iranian government was strengthened when, after several sites were hacked, they issued warnings to the Green Movement. The scope [...]

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The West’s military infrastructure is at growing risk from sophisticated hackers

8 February 2010

The Independent, 6 Feb 10: Western governments are facing a potent and ill-understood new threat from terrorists and hostile powers in the shape of cyber warfare, military and security experts have warned. . . . US and British officials say what is at stake goes far beyond attempted state censorship, with military infrastructure and financial [...]

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Cyberwar: In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy Deterrent

26 January 2010

New York Times, 26 Jan 10: On a Monday morning earlier this month, top Pentagon leaders gathered to simulate how they would respond to a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at paralyzing the nation’s power grids, its communications systems or its financial networks.
The results were dispiriting. The enemy had all the advantages: stealth, anonymity and unpredictability. No [...]

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Cyber-war With Chinese Characteristics

22 January 2010

Asia Sentinel, 21 Jan 10: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has added a high-tech dimension to its vaunted tradition of “democratic proletarian dictatorship:” Cyber-dictatorship. Through the 2000s, the country’s labyrinthine state-security apparatus has smashed thousands of “illegal” websites and locked up hundreds of Net-based dissidents and editors. The much-publicized cyber attacks against Google, Yahoo! and [...]

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“Iranian Cyber Army” Hacks Twitter, Claims Victory for “Party of God”

18 December 2009

CBS, 18 Dec 09: Crimesider has now translated the full message that a group calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army” left on the front page of Twitter when they hacked it early Friday.
The text, written in Farsi, Arabic and English, references the Koran, speaks of victory for the “Party of God” – perhaps a reference [...]

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Suspected NKoreans hack war plan for SKorea

18 December 2009

AFP, 17 Dec 09: Computer hackers who may be from North Korea have gained access to a secret US-South Korean plan to defend the peninsula in case of war, the defence ministry said Friday.
The hackers used an Internet Protocol address in China to access some military data related to Operation Plan 5027, a spokesman told [...]

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Spymaster sees Israel as world cyberwar leader

15 December 2009

Reuters, 15 Dec 09: Israel is parlaying civilian technological advances into a cyberwarfare capability against its enemies, a senior Israeli general said on Tuesday in a rare public disclosure about the secret program.
Using computer networks for espionage — by hacking into databanks — or to carry out sabotage by planting so-called “malicious software” in sensitive [...]

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In Shift, U.S. Talks to Russia on Internet Security

14 December 2009

New York Times, 12 Dec 09: The United States has begun talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace. . . .
. . . .In the last two years, Internet-based attacks on government and corporate computer systems have multiplied to thousands a [...]

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Chinese, Russian cyberwarfare

19 November 2009

Washington Times, 19 Nov 09: The Pentagon’s National Defense University recently published a groundbreaking book that is one of the few U.S. government documents to highlight the cyberwarfare capabilities of both China and Russia.
The book Cyberpower and National Security contains a chapter on the issue revealing that China’s computer attack capabilities have become “more visible and [...]

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U.S. is Striking Back in the Global Cyberwar

18 November 2009

US News and World Report, 18 Nov 09: More than two dozen professional hackers have set up operations in exurban Virginia beside a mock military headquarters made of plywood. Huddled over laptops, they are preparing to launch a vicious barrage of cyberattacks. Once they break into their targets’ computer networks, the nefarious possibilities are myriad: [...]

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Virtually Here: The Age of Cyberwarfare Report

17 November 2009

McAfee, 17 Nov 09:�
McAfee, Inc. today revealed that the global cyberarms race has moved from fiction to reality, according to its fifth annual Virtual Criminology Report. The report found that politically motivated cyberattacks have increased and five countries – the United States, Russia, France, Israel and China – are now armed with cyberweapons.
“McAfee began to [...]

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