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Cyberwarfare: what Richard Clarke and other fearmongers get wrong
Why so? First, cyberwarfare is asymmetric; being cheap and destructive, it may nudge weaker states to conflicts with stronger states—the kinds of conflicts that would have been avoided in the past. Second, since cyberattacks are notoriously difficult to trace, actors may not fear swift retaliation and behave more aggressively than usual. Third, as it's hard to defend against cyberattacks, most rational states would prefer to attack first. Finally, since cyberweapons are surrounded by secrecy and uncertainty, arms control agreements are hard to implement.
The Cybercrime Wave That Wasn’t - NYTimes.com
Yet in terms of economics, there’s something very wrong with this picture. Generally the demand for easy money outstrips supply. Is cybercrime an exception? If getting rich were as simple as downloading and running software, wouldn’t more people do it, and thus drive down returns? We have examined cybercrime from an economics standpoint and found a story at odds with the conventional wisdom.Security firm TrendMicro has linked a series of cyber attacks in Japan, India and Tibet to a Chinese hacker group called Luckycat, and revealed one of the group's members to be a Chinese university student. The LuckyCat campaign has been active since June 2011, and has compromised 233 computers while attacking more than 90 different targets. The group uses unique campaign codes to track different victims and malware. By using emails laden with malicious software, the group attacked the aerospace, energy, shipping, military and research industries, and also targeted Tibetan activists.
Global cyberattacks linked to Chinese LuckyCat hacker group (Wired UK)
In the nearly 20 years since David Ronfeldt and I introduced our concept of cyberwar, this new mode of conflict has become a reality. Cyberwar is here, and it is here to stay, despite what Thomas Rid and other skeptics think. Back then, we emphasized the growing importance of battlefield information systems and the profound impact their disruption would have in wars large and small. It took just a few years to see how vulnerable the U.S. military had become to this threat. Although most information on cyberwar's repercussions -- most notably the 1997 Eligible Receiver exercise -- remains classified, suffice it to say that their effect on U.S. forces would be crippling. Cyberwar waged against one of America's allies has already proved devastating.
Cyberwar Is Already Upon Us - By John Arquilla | Foreign Policy
Federal News Radio
The military has known for years that it will never be able to compete with the private sector when it comes to paying cyber experts. Pay, however, is not the only factor that keeps a soldier, sailor, airman or marine in the military. The Air Force is banking on the idea that job satisfaction might be a retention tool that overcomes the pay gap between what an airman might be able to get from industry and what he or she earns from Uncle Sam. "The money's better on the outside.
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Number of the week: 780 new malicious programs designed to steal users’ online banking data detected every day
According to Kaspersky Security Network data, over the last three months Trojan bankers have been detected on an average of 2000 unique users’ computers every day. Moreover, 780 signatures for new malicious programs that target sensitive financial information are added to Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus database on a daily basis – that is 1.1% of the total number of malware detected every day by the company’s software. Notably, in January Kaspersky Lab experts discovered Trojan-Banker.MSIL.MultiPhishing.gen which is designed to steal account details from clients of numerous banks including Santander, HSBC Bank UK, Metro Bank, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, and Barclays.Public Intelligence A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. The document, part of a program called “Communities Against Terrorism” , lists the use of “anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address” as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious activity along with steganography, the practice of using “software to hide encrypted data in digital photos” or other media. In fact, the flyer recommends that anyone “overly concerned about privacy” or attempting to “shield the screen from view of others” should be considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities.
Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist | Public Intelligence
DOHA (Reuters) - Hackers are bombarding the world's computer controlled energy sector, conducting industrial espionage and threatening potential global havoc through oil supply disruption. Oil company executives warned that attacks were becoming more frequent and more carefully planned.
Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply | Reuters
Earlier this month the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command activated the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade, with two battalions – Fort Meade located 781st MI Battalion and the 782nd MI, located at Fort Gordon, Ga.
Cyber Soldiers: Hackers in Fatigues | Defense Update
Business Line : Features / eWorld : Cyber attack, the new battle line
With unprecedented levels of dependence on the internet, cyber attacks will be on the rise if steps are not taken to shield the system. In the movie Sneakers (1992), Robert Redford is tricked into stealing a decoder device that can break encryption codes and hack into the most secure computer systems.
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Cyber war: Indian hackers take down OGRA site – The Express Tribune
A war between Indian and Pakistani cyber hackers has erupted.Middle East
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HANOVER: In the wake of the Stuxnet virus, the topic of international "cyber war" split IT experts at the world's top tech fair, some seeing the idea as fanciful, others warning it was already here. "'Cyber war' has already left the pages of the science-fiction books and has become a reality," August-Wilhelm Scheer, president of BITKOM, Germany's high-tech lobby group, told AFP on the sidelines of the CeBIT exposition. Natalya Kaspersky, president of the Russian IT security firm of the same name, said: "Of course the time of the cyber war has come.
Cyber war talks 'invade' CeBIT - Times Of India
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