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Posts Tagged cyber war
Preparing for Cyber War, Without a Map
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch on 16/Oct/2012 17:12
From: MIT
The U.S. government has pledged to retaliate quickly if power grids or other critical elements of infrastructure are hacked—but the technology needed to do so is lacking.
Russian Hackers Attack Illinois Utility
Posted by Gary in Comms, News, Threat Watch on 19/Nov/2011 20:56
From: PopSci
The Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center released a “Public Water District Cyber Intrusion” report on November 10 that indicates that hackers may have had access to the system since September. Hackers using Russian IP addresses hacked the software vendor that makes the system. They were then able to access the vendor’s database of usernames and passwords, and used the stolen credentials for remote access to the SCADA system’s network. These vendors keep records of their customer’s access information for maintenance and upgrading the systems.
Two to three months before the discovery of the hack, operators noticed “glitches” in the remote access to the SCADA system. “They just figured it’s part of the normal instability of the system,” said Joe Weiss, cybersecurity expert and managing partner at Applied Control Solutions, who obtained a copy of the report. “But it wasn’t until the SCADA system actually turned on and off that they realized something was wrong.”
New Malware Brings Cyberwar One Step Closer
Posted by Gary in Comms, News, Threat Watch on 21/Oct/2011 03:29
From: MIT
A newly discovered piece of malicious code dubbed Duqu is closely related to the notorious Stuxnet worm that damaged Iran’s nuclear-enrichment centrifuges last year. Although it has no known target or author, it sets the stage for more industrial and cyberwar attacks, experts say.
“This is definitely a troubling development on a number of levels,” says Ronald Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, an Internet think-tank at the University of Toronto who leads research on cyberwarfare, censorship, and espionage. “In the context of the militarization of cyberspace, policymakers around the world should be concerned.”
Indeed, the spread of such code could be destabilizing. The Pentagon’s cyberwar strategy, for example, makes clear that computer attacks on industrial and civilian infrastructure like chemical factories or power grids as well as military networks could be regarded as equivalent to a conventional bombing or other attack, if civilians were endangered.
Cyber combat: act of war
Posted by Gary in Comms, Threat Watch on 3/Jun/2011 14:42
From: WSJ via Kurzweil AI
Cyber combat: act of war
June 1, 2011
Source: Wall Street Journal — May 31, 2011
The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, opening the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.
Pentagon officials believe the most sophisticated computer attacks require the resources of a government. For instance, the weapons used in an assault such as taking down a power grid would likely have been developed with state support.
Defense officials refuse to discuss potential cyber adversaries, although military and intelligence officials say they have identified previous attacks originating in Russia and China.
Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Survival/Defense
Using the Evolved Cyber Range – Free Webinar
Posted by Gary in Comms, Threat Watch, Training on 11/Mar/2011 19:04
From: IDGA
Using the Evolved Cyber Range to Arm and Train U.S. Warriors to Win Cyber War
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
Presenter:Â Scott Register
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Protecting the Critical Infrastructure
Posted by Gary in Comms, Threat Watch on 15/Aug/2010 12:40
From: IDGA
With a turbulent economic outlook, advancing threats from cyber criminals and an ongoing oil spill impacting our global ecosystem; the challenge of protecting the critical infrastructure can no longer be an exercise in reactive security. Caretakers of these systems have to look at changing how they monitor, control, and recover in the event of a cyberevent. By the looks of things BP is dealing with their fair share of Hacktivism right now.