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Is The U.S. Ready For A Cyberwar?: Imagine waking up in the morning and your electricity is out.
US defence industry calls for more spending on cyber-warfare: A CYBER WARFARE EXERCISE designed by the defence industry to lobby for more cash has raised fears that the US is not ready to fight an online war.
Cyberwar and the ‘destruction of rules’: A 14-page ‘restricted’ report prepared by the British intelligence agency MI5’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure has recently come to light.
How Deep Will the Crack Be in U.S.-China Ties?: After the Copenhagen conference, the relationship between the U.S. and China has been tumultuous.
Simulation shows government lacks policies needed to respond to cyberattack: A simulation of a widespread cyberattack against the nation’s critical infrastructure on Tuesday demonstrated the cascading effects an attack can have on networks and the difficulty the government would have in quickly responding, including dealing with civil liberties and how to work with corporations.
Software developers are to blame for most cyberattacks, say security experts: Software developers should be accountable for programming errors that enable cyberattacks, security observers said on Tuesday.
Cyberattack simulation highlights vulnerabilities: Imagine that a widely downloaded, malicious smart phone application has triggered a national security crisis and brought the country’s telecommunications and electronic infrastructure to a standstill.
Fact Check: Cyberattack threat: A Washington think tank staged a mock cyberattack on the United States on Tuesday in a bid to evaluate strategies for fighting cyberterrorists.
Book Maps Cyber-Warfare Battlefields on the Internet: Inside Cyber Warfare by Jeffrey Carr, CEO of security analysis startup GreyLogic and founder of the open-source intelligence project, “Grey Goose,” is a must-read for cyber-warfare skeptics or anyone wanting to know the what, when, how, and where of the cyber battlefield.
China won’t bow down: China and the United States have been referred to as global partners, strategic competitors, outright rivals and “frenemies” — friends who secretly hate each other’s guts.
War game reveals U.S. lacks cyber-crisis skills: A war game, sponsored by a nonprofit group and attended by former top-ranking national security officials, laid bare Tuesday that the U.S. government lacks answers to such key questions.
More Must Be Done to Prepare US for Cyber Attack: The US has experienced a widespread cyber attack, infecting telecommunications and other IT structures throughout the US infrastructure.
Former DHS Cyber Official Joins Information Security Forum: The Information Security Forum, a leading authority on information security, has announced that Greg Garcia has joined ISF as Strategic Advisor for North America.
Justice Lawyers Try to Define Cyber War: Run for the hills! The Justice Department’s lawyers are trying to figure out just what would constitute an act of war during a cyber attack.
Former Army specialist hacks the world’s most secure chip: Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans.
Collective Cyber Defense: Int’l Synergy a Must: A collective defense by the United States and its allies is crucial in identifying adversaries in cyberspace, the Defense Department’s No. 2 official says.
Keeping an Eye on the EYEBOT and a Possible Bot War: There is a new bot in town and it seems that it has set out to rival the notorious ZBOTbotnet. Trend Micro threat researchers recently came across a new spyware detected as TSPY_EYEBOT.A.
Czech experts uncover global virus network: Czech security experts have uncovered a global network of devices attacked by computer viruses within which it was possible to wiretap and gain access to sensitive data, Jan Vykopal, head of the security project of Masaryk University, told CTK yesterday.
China sees an array of Internet threats and moves to tighten control: Deep inside a Chinese military engineering institute in September 2008, a researcher took a break from his duties and decided — against official policy — to check his private e-mail. Among the new arrivals was an electronic holiday greeting card, purportedly from a state defense office.
Czech experts uncover global virus network: Czech security experts have uncovered a global network of devices attacked by computer viruses within which it was possible to wiretap and gain access to sensitive data, Jan Vykopal, head of the security project of Masaryk University, told CTK yesterday.
Cyberterrorism Hype v. Fact: Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair caught the media’s attention recently with two major headlines when he presented this year’s Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The first was his statement that the United States is “severely threatened” by cyberattacks of “extraordinary sophistication.” The second was that al-Qaeda is intent on striking within the United States in the next six months. Both sections of the assessment are chilling, but they are unrelated.