Leading into the week (over the weekend) there was a bit of a furor over the disclosure of a hacking tool that had an American university address listed. When supposedly the Chinese government yanked the video the hysteria went up.…
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This week in cyber conflict: August 22nd – August 26th
The week opened with more information on the Korean attacks. It seems the number of people may have been larger than some earlier reports. Of course, this is actually more about a breach than it is about an actual attack.…
This week in cyber conflict: August 15th – August 19th
With another week of highly dramatic over blown talk in the media about how hackers declared war on BART you’d think the world was coming to an end. Since BART wasn’t brought to it’s knees nor was there a dramatic…
This week in cyber conflict: August 8th – August 12th
Much in the same way as I’ve discussed the principle of science fiction informing us about information assurance and security it appears a researcher at DefCon talked along a similar thread. I do think rather than Die Hard a better…
This week in cyber conflict: August 1st – August 5th
The week opened up with more discussion about computer incursions in South Korea. It was also interesting to see another despot led country to be tied to cyber attacks. The thread of aligning countries like Myanmar to cyber attacks is…
This week in cyber conflict: July 25th – July 29th
This week seemed to have some interesting themes. I do think it is interesting that the one theme that has been missing is on how the federal government looming default has not been considered by the pundits as a cyber…
This week in cyber conflict: July 18th – July 22nd
The week started pretty much as we would expect with more discussion of the 24k files lost by the Department of Defense as disclosed by the Deputy Secretary Defense William Lynn in the previous week. The loss of classified information…
This week in cyber conflict: July 11th – July 15th
The week started out kind of interesting with more information about the Department of Energy labs that had to be shut down. Though the hysteria surrounding the attack continues to refer to the “sophisticated” nature of the “cyber attack” it…
This week in cyber conflict: July 4th – July 8th
Coming out of the weekend the big news was the attacks on the various department of energy laboratory environments. At first blush it appeared and was reported as a significant advanced persistent threat event. Now I’m not exactly sure what…
This week in cyber conflict: June 27th – July 1st
The silliness of what has become a near catastrophic destruction of the term war has continued through out the weekend of June 25th/26th. The term cyber warfare was tossed around with abandon by the main stream media. The possible disbandment…
This week in cyber conflict: June 20th to June 24th
The week started off with a clean up of the previous weeks dustbin news. Not an unusual amount to hit on Monday, but the breadth was interesting. The continued mixing of cyber security issues with main stream media presentations of…
This week in cyber conflict: June 13th to June 17th
It appears that national governments have started rounding up hackers for prosecution. This is an interesting development but not unexpected. It will be interesting to see what kind of evidence is used. It is not lost upon the aware observer…
This week in cyber conflict: June 6th to June 10th
A busy weekend opened on a busy week. It looks like the rhetoric continues to heat up between China and the United States as regards cyber warfare. The thread of the latest Google hacks has appeared to center around White…
This week in cyber conflict: May 30th to June 3rd
The fact China has a cyber warfare unit really splashed heavily Monday in the news media. I am kind of surprised that we make such a big deal about this since we have an entire military organization called “cyber command”.…
This week in cyber conflict: May 23rd to May 27th
An enormous amount of anti-China rhetoric in the press this week. From calls that governments are coddling China and allowing China to invade American systems to simply the American government is not capable of protecting citizens. The rhetoric is definitely…