Cyber War News Updates -- May 19, 2011

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Cyberwarfare May Be A Bust For Many Defense Contractors -- Forbes

As federal spending on national security has leveled off in recent years, big defense contractors have worked hard to secure a role in one of the few market segments expected to keep growing: cyberwarfare. It’s a relatively new field where the terminology hasn’t stabilized yet, but for the purposes of this posting, cyberwarfare means three things: attacking enemy networks, exploiting enemy information flows, and defending friendly networks. Most of the money Washington is currently spending on cyberwarfare goes to the latter activity — securing friendly networks — but offensive activities seem to be growing faster over time. They’re really just different sides of the same coin, since it’s hard to be good at defending computer networks if you don’t have a thorough understanding of how to attack them.

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More News On Cyber Warfare

House Committee Tries to Define Cyberwar -- Next Gov
Cyberwarfare rules included in Defense bill -- Federal News Radio

Syria's Facebook Wars -- Fast Company

North Korea's Cyber Army Gets Increasingly Sophisticated -- FOX News
Fox: N. Korea has 30,000 Cyber Warfare Specialists -- Arirang
Information Warfare: Military Camp 144 -- Strategy Page
Secrets surface about North Korea's cyberwar college -- MSNBC
Information Warfare: Pyongyang Automation University Versus The World -- Strategy Page
North Korea Accused of Cyber Terror -- Techland/Time
Secrets Surface About North Korea's Cyberwar College -- Security News Daily

Enter Unit 8200: Israel arms for cyberwar -- UPI

Report: U.S. Is Hyping Threat Of Cyber War -- Threat Post
Cyberwar Hype Comes Under Increasing Scrutiny -- Forbes
Cyber war threat inflated, says paper -- Fierce Government IT
Are we talking "cyber war" like the Bush admin talked WMDs? -- ars technica

Cyber superiority requires intelligence edge -- Defense Systems
Gearing up for cyber-warfare -- Gulf News
EU and US agree to run joint cyberwar exercise in 2011 -- The Register
Air Force cyber warfare unit gaining new commander -- Business Journal
Cyberwar Is Harder Than It Looks -- Reason
Computer virus as bad as A-bombs dropped on Japan? -- WND
US Decides That If There's No Real Cyberwar, It Might Just Escalate Hack Attacks Into A Real War -- Techdirt

Cyberwar News Updates -- March 7, 2011

The New Cyber Arms Race -- Christian Science Monitor

Tomorrow's wars will be fought not just with guns, but with the click of a mouse half a world away that will unleash weaponized software that could take out everything from the power grid to a chemical plant.

Deep inside a glass-and-concrete office building in suburban Washington, Sean McGurk grasps the handle of a vault door, clicks in a secret entry code, and swings the steel slab open. Stepping over the raised lip of a submarinelike bulkhead, he enters a room bristling with some of the most sophisticated technology in the United States.

Banks of computers, hard drives humming on desktops, are tied into an electronic filtering system that monitors billions of bits of information flowing into dozens of federal agencies each second. At any given moment, an analyst can pop up information on a wall of five massive television screens that almost makes this feel like Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, rather than a bland office building in Arlington, Va.

The overriding purpose of all of it: to help prevent what could lead to the next world war.

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More News On Cyberwar

10 ways to prevent cyberconflict -- Christian Science Monitor
Cyberwar glossary -- Christian Science Monitor
Cyberwar timeline -- Christian Science Monitor

It's cyberwar -- CBR
If Stuxnet was act of cyberwar, is U.S. ready for a response? -- Computer World
'Cyberwar' talk invades world's top high-tech fair -- AFP
South Korea Braces Itself For More Suspicious DDoS Attacks -- Crunch Gear
White House Advisor: Use of Term Cyberwar “Terrible” -- Wall Street Journal
Cyber war threat exaggerated claims security expert -- BBC
Cyberwar: Experts Have Hard Time Defining It, Let Alone Defending Against It -- George Hulme, Information Week
RSA: How Real is the Threat of Cyberwar? -- eSecurity Planet
The Too-Many Faces of 'Cyberwar' -- Richard Adhikari, Tech News World
Cyberwar Issues Likely to Be Addressed Only After a Catastrophe -- Threat Level
Libicki: Stuxnet isn't all it's cracked up to be -- but then neither is cyberwar, really -- Thomas E. Ricks, The Best defense/Foreign Policy
A Declaration of Cyber-War -- Vanity Fair

Cyber War News Updates -- July 30, 2010

Michael Hayden, ex-CIA and NSA director, suggests some foreign nations' systems should be off-limits in cyberwar. (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET)

U.S. Military Cyberwar: What's Off-Limits? -- CNET

LAS VEGAS--The United States should decide on rules for attacking other nations' networks in advance of an actual cyberwar, which could include an international agreement not to disable banks and electrical grids, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency said Thursday.

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More News On Cyber War

U.S. should seek world cooperation on cyber conflict, says ex-CIA director -- Computer World
Ex-CIA chief downplays claims of China ‘cyberwar’ -- Financial Times
Black Hat: Cyberspace is the new military domain -- The Inquirer
US flank exposed on cyber war front: Hayden -- AFP
Former U.S. General: "On The Internet, We Are All Poland" -- Forbes
Former NSA Director: Countries Spewing Cyberattacks Should Be Held Responsible -- Threat Level
Hayden Talks Cyber Risks -- Executive Biz

Chinese army to target cyber war threat -- The Guardian
PLA sets up cyber base, assures it's not for war -- Times of India
Indian Army’s Cyber Terrorism Strategy -- WATBlog
Cyber war: Indian Army gearing up -- Times of India
Cyber Wars in Iran -- Payvand
The Next 9/11: The Risk of a Supply Chain Cyberwar -- Logistics Viewpoints
Military wrestles with cyber war battle planning -- Federal Computer
Afghanistan war logs: Nato feared Taliban could tap its mobile phones -- The Guardian
The Cyberwar of 2012 -- Sun2Surf
Fog of cyberwar: internet always favors the offense -- The Register
Cyberwar Is Hell -- Newsweek
Recruiting, Development, and Retention of Cyber Warriors Despite an Inhospitable Culture -- Small Wars Journal