Cyber Warfare Needs Cyber Civil Defense
Hardly a day goes by with some news article, op ed piece, or screaming commentator on a bottom of the dial cable channel proclaiming the dire prospects of cyber war. But unlike traditional kinetic wars with identifiable enemies, overt acts of war, and some notion of what constitutes victory, we’re still at the stage where

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The world needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of the main UN communications and technology agency warned Saturday. “A cyber war would be worse than a tsunami — a catastrophe,” the UN official said, highlighting examples such as attacks on Estonia last year Craig Mundie, chief research and...
Amazon.com just posted my three star review of Jeff Carr’s Inside Cyber Warfare . From the review : Jeff Carr is a great digital security intelligence analyst and I’ve been fortunate to hear him speak several times. We’ve also separately discussed the issues he covers in Inside Cyber Warfare (ICW). While I find Jeff’s insights...
Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the current Director of NSA, has been nominated to head the US Cyber Command. Last week Alexander appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to answer questions. The Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin (D Michigan) began by posing three scenarios to Lieutenant General Alexander: Scenario...
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There was a big U.S. cyberattack exercise this week. We didn’t do so well: In a press release issued today, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) — which organized “Cyber Shockwave” using a group of former government officials and computer simulations — concluded the U.S is “unprepared for cyber threats.” …the...
BT asked me to write a guest post on their blog, so I provided a new Reaction to Cyber Shockwave . I hadn’t really addressed one of the main reasons why I liked Cyber Shockwave, despite the LOL-worthy “technical” aspects of the “simulation,” when I wrote my first Reaction to Cyber Shockwave . Please check out the...
Cyber terrorists have a number of ways to mount a major cyber attack on U.S. Internet infrastructure due to the general instability of its base, the director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) “With decades of IT infrastructure built to support changing technologies, there is little ability to baseline the entire...
Remember SmartWater: liquid imbued with a uniquely identifiable DNA-style code? Well, Mont Blanc is selling a pen with uniquely identifiable ink….
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The Cyber Challenge organizers say the competition is aimed at identifying young people with exceptional computer skills and inspiring them to join the country’s understaffed ranks of cybersecurity specialists needed to protect systems used by the military, industry and everyday people. Former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell...
How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who is trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government? Here’s a simple test: Count the number of times they use the adjective “cyber.”...
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