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Diplomacy won’t stop North Korean hacking, South Korean officials say

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Top South Korean cybersecurity experts don’t expect Donald Trump’s diplomacy to slow down North Korean cyberattacks Speaking through interpreters at a Brookings event Thursday, two of South Korea’s leading cybersecurity experts said that they’re no longer able to cope with the sheer volume of attacks emanating from the North. In the past decade, every well-known South Korean organization has been hacked or targeted by North Korea, noted SangMyung Choi, chief of South Korea’s Computer Emergency Response Team. At the Washington, D.C., event, Choi showed off a slide deck that warned: “there is no place that is not hacked” and “we are in the real cyberwarfare.” “A lot of these attacks have not been [revealed] to the South Korean public, but today I confess to you that it’s been very prevalent,” Choi said. Since May 2018, he revealed, North Korean-backed hackers have launched spear phishing and watering hole attacks in forged documents […]

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Maj. Gen. Ed Wilson appointed to top Pentagon cyber policy position

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Defense Secretary James Mattis has appointed Maj. Gen. Burke “Ed” Wilson as the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for cyber policy, the Pentagon announced Monday. Wilson is retiring from the Air Force as he enters this new position. In this role, he will be Mattis’s right-hand man when it comes to cyber policy. He most recently served as the deputy principal cyber adviser and senior military adviser for cyber policy. According to his Air Force bio page, Wilson has also served as deputy commander and commander for Air Force cyber operations. Congratulations to Major General Ed Wilson as he retires from the Air Force and returns as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy! Outstanding cyber experience for DOD and the interagency team!https://t.co/qaFIW7ZobI — Rob Joyce (@RobJoyce45) January 30, 2018 Wilson’s new position was most recently held by Aaron Hughes, who served from May 2015 to January 2017, when President Donald Trump took office. […]

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Proposed bill would make DOD tell Congress when ‘special cyber operations’ are taking place

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There’s an oversight bill in the works that would compel the Defense Department to notify Congress when the military is engaged in sensitive cyber operations. The bipartisan legislation, as it’s currently written, would require congressional notification when the Defense Department takes action in cyberspace under U.S. Code Title 10, which supervises operations led by Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, as well as the Reserves. Title 10 is unrelated to the U.S. government’s intelligence gathering mission set, which is led by federal organizations like the National Security Agency. Sponsored by top House Armed Service Committee Reps. Elise Stefanik, D-N.Y., Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, Jim Langevin, D-R.I., and Adam Smith, D-Wash., the bill does not provide Congress with any additional authorization authority, but rather codifies an informal disclosure process that exists between the Defense Department and relevant congressional committees. There is no mention of a public disclosure element in […]

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