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 dialing up. The China sentiment was not helped when they admitted to a cyber warfare unit. Which is strange news when they’ve talked about it openly before.
The cyber-attack against Sony is starting to close down in the national news cycle. The interesting news there is the $179 million price tag.
Early in the week the discussion of what the presidents powers are during a cyber attack or incident took on new light as the senate took it up. To be just the President can do just about anything he wants. Long before the “Internet Kill Switch” the Telecom Act of 1934 said the President of the United States could turn off Telecom in national need. The Senate will have to overhaul the original act, the updated act in 1996, and subsequent legislation in a variety of places if they want to circumscribe Presidential powers. Then justify it to the Supreme Court as it is primarily an executive branch function (regulatory).
There are a few other stories rising within the news cycle this week. I’m not sure if editors are cleaning off their desks from the last cycle with slow news days, or what is happening. Basically the “greatest threat” and “cyber warriors apply here” type stories are getting more air play
Monday May 23rd
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| Cyberwar, The Beginnings Kalkion (blog) A bullet just hit my plexi-laminate side window. “Damn, How much is this going to cost me?” I curse under my breath. Still, in this day and age, living in DC, we get shot at. I’ll look at the bullet later. It’s embedded in the laminate, as it should be … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Coddling China: Dangerous exposure … Tribune Review The Washington Times reports the Army’s National Training Center and Nellis Air Force Base, home to air and cyberwar exercises, were among stops on the Chinese six-day tour ended Saturday. The Obama administration’s bleating about improving US-China … See all stories on this topic » |
Tuesday May 24th
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| Cyber Attack Spread to Yüksekova News Site Bianet On 18 May (Thursday), the website of Sol Haber (‘Left-wing News’) became temporarily unusable due to a cyber attack. Two days later (20 May), the website of the Yüksekova News daily (Hakkari, south-eastern Turkey) became the latest target for the time … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Norwegian Military Hit by Cyber Attack eSecurity Planet By eSecurityPlanet Staff A cyber attack hit military computers in Norway in late March, one day after Norwegian fighter jets bombed Libya. “On March 25, about 100 military employees received an email in Norwegian that included an attachment that … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Sony’s woes deepen as it plunges to £2bn loss The Independent The losses will heap further pressure on its embattled chief executive Sir Howard Stringer in a year when the group has suffered from the devastating earthquake in Japan and a cyber attack on its network. Its share price has tumbled a quarter since the … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Why Students in Cuba Need Internet Havana Times Last week a special article ran in Cuban papers titled “Cyberwar: Access to the internet, subversion, or human rights”. The more often I read about the internet from the Cuban government perspective the more I feel like we need to do a better job of … See all stories on this topic » |
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| NIKSUN Announces Breakthrough Innovations of NetDetector PR Newswire (press release) The threat of a catastrophic cyber attack is real. Insider threats, zero-day exploits, suspect malware, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and other cyber attacks are now occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Sony BMG Greece Hack Dumps Users’ Data Online PC Magazine According to THN, someone by the name of “b4d_vipera” claimed ownership of the cyber attack. The Greek site is the seventh Sony portal hacked in recent weeks following the month-long PlayStation Network outage also caused by a hacker. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| PSN outage puts Sony in $171 million hole Examiner.com While the cyber-attack on the Playstation Network affected Playstation 3 and PSP owners, Sony is taking a sizeable hit to the pocketbook. However, it is no where close to the money lost due to the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March. … See all stories on this topic » |
Wednesday May 25th
| Cyber Attack Spread to Yüksekova News Site Bianet On 18 May (Thursday), the website of Sol Haber (‘Left-wing News’) became temporarily unusable due to a cyber attack. Two days later (20 May), the website of the Yüksekova News daily (Hakkari, south-eastern Turkey) became the latest target for the time … See all stories on this topic » |
| Norwegian Military Hit by Cyber Attack eSecurity Planet By eSecurityPlanet Staff A cyber attack hit military computers in Norway in late March, one day after Norwegian fighter jets bombed Libya. “On March 25, about 100 military employees received an email in Norwegian that included an attachment that … See all stories on this topic » |
| Sony’s woes deepen as it plunges to £2bn loss The Independent The losses will heap further pressure on its embattled chief executive Sir Howard Stringer in a year when the group has suffered from the devastating earthquake in Japan and a cyber attack on its network. Its share price has tumbled a quarter since the … See all stories on this topic » |
| Why Students in Cuba Need Internet Havana Times Last week a special article ran in Cuban papers titled “Cyberwar: Access to the internet, subversion, or human rights”. The more often I read about the internet from the Cuban government perspective the more I feel like we need to do a better job of … See all stories on this topic » |
| NIKSUN Announces Breakthrough Innovations of NetDetector PR Newswire (press release) The threat of a catastrophic cyber attack is real. Insider threats, zero-day exploits, suspect malware, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and other cyber attacks are now occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication. … See all stories on this topic » |
| Sony BMG Greece Hack Dumps Users’ Data Online PC Magazine According to THN, someone by the name of “b4d_vipera” claimed ownership of the cyber attack. The Greek site is the seventh Sony portal hacked in recent weeks following the month-long PlayStation Network outage also caused by a hacker. … See all stories on this topic » |
| PSN outage puts Sony in $171 million hole Examiner.com While the cyber-attack on the Playstation Network affected Playstation 3 and PSP owners, Sony is taking a sizeable hit to the pocketbook. However, it is no where close to the money lost due to the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March. … See all stories on this topic » |
Thursday May 26th
| INFORMATION WARFARE: Cyber War Recruiting Comes Up Light Strategy Page Headquartered in Fort Meade (outside Washington, DC), most of the manpower, and capabilities, come from the Cyber War operations the services have already established. US Cyber Command has some smaller organizations that coordinate Cyber War activities … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Green groups’ cyber attack on Murray Weekly Times Now The submissions call for more than 4000 gigalitres of irrigators’ water be diverted to boost annual environment flows. “Almost half the feedback received by the authority was submitted via various campaigns containing identical text,” it has revealed. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Cyberwarfare Current Single Greatest Emerging Threat to National Security … PR Newswire (press release) Cyber warfare is the current single greatest emerging threat to national security. In 2010, nations worldwide placed cyberwar at the forefront of their defense planning, and provision of government cyber solutions is the single greatest growth market … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Making warfare on your desktop Washington Examiner Cyberwar is not — under US law and the Geneva Conventions — even defined as war. But the Russian cyberattacks on Estonia and Georgia nearly brought those governments down, and the Stuxnet computer worm damaged and disrupted the Iranian nuclear … See all stories on this topic » |
Friday May 27th
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| Cyber war; a football incubator and Oregon’s unique law SouthCoastToday.com By Kevin McDonough What do Sony PlayStation and the government of Estonia have in common? They’ve both been victims of cyber attacks, the subject of “Code Wars: America’s Cyber Threat” (9 pm, CNBC). In the past, cyber-criminals have brought the … See all stories on this topic » |
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| White House rejects terrorism-related cyberwar provisions in House bill Nextgov By Aliya Sternstein 05/25/2011 The Obama administration objects to a House proposal that specifies the term cyberwar includes clandestine actions against terrorists online. The language, which House members folded into the 2012 Defense Department … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Turkish Online News Sites Face Cyber-attack Release-news.com (press release) Recently, several Turkish online news portals suffered cyber-attack. The website of Birgun, a left-wing daily newspaper operated from Istanbul was the first news portal to suffer cyber-attack. Around 200 IP addresses were involved in the attack on … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Private and Public sector must work closely together to combat Cyber Warfare … PRLog.Org (press release) The cyber warfare threat will be discussed at Cyber Warfare Online, Defence IQ’s inaugural virtual summit that will bring together members of the US Cyber Command, USMC and NATO to facilitate information sharing across nations. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| INFORMATION WARFARE: Israel Braces For The Big One Strategy Page Apparently, existing Internet security efforts, and military Cyber War organizations have discovered a growing number of vulnerabilities in the national Internet infrastructure. The only solution to this growing vulnerability is a large scale effort to … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Cyber security at G-8 summit agenda RIA Novosti Cyber security covers everything from cyber crime to cyber warfare; everything from the mischief an adolescent hacker can do to your and my computer to the risk that skilled individuals—and they need not be many—could from cyber space bring down a … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Obama’s Cybersecurity Plan Would Burden Industry, Lawmaker Says Bloomberg By Kelly Riddell – Wed May 25 16:52:16 GMT 2011 An Obama administration proposal for bolstering the nation’s defenses against a cyber attack would give the Homeland Security Department too much power over private industry, a US lawmaker said today. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Sign ups for PSN free identity theft protection being sent out now Examiner.com Sony announced a free year of identity theft protection as part of the “Welcome Back” package for PSN users after the network was down for nearly a month due to a cyber-attack. The program is now live as sign-up emails have been sent out to PSN … See all stories on this topic » |
