Tag Archives for cyberwarfare
Cyber Shockwave + Oil Shockwave
Marc Ambinder is aflutter over this exercise. It focuses on the reaction of cabinet-level officers to the extremely unlikely case of the equivalent of a cyber-nuke attack from the unknown. I’m much less optimistic. Like Oil Shockwave before it, its … Continue reading
On the Google Vs. China War
The question of if China’s attack on Google was espionage or warfare is predicated on if Skynet Google is a national US asset. I haven’t seen any indications that it is. It largely functions independent of the nation state by: … Continue reading
IntelFusion: FLASH Traffic
Nice. Jeff Carr’s a “weekly brief of the global cyber threatscape.” Great to see him and Project Grey Goose gain traction on cyberwarfare – including writing the book on the topic! -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Arquilla in the NYT
Nice mention – “Policy makers are tremendously sensitive to collateral damage by virtual weapons, but not nearly sensitive enough to damage by kinetic” — conventional — “weapons,” said John Arquilla, an expert in military strategy at the Naval Postgraduate School … Continue reading
DOE Under Attack
GCN – Inspector General Gregory Friedman hopes to lock down security on the Energy Department’s interconnected computer networks, after auditors called 132 security breaches serious enough to report to law enforcement in fiscal 2006 — 22 percent more than in … Continue reading