Collaborate Disseminate
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via Lily Hay Newman, plying the scrvener trade for Condé Nast Inc. publication Wired, comes this superlative reportage, detailing the so-called ‘Hail Mary Plan to R… Continue reading Reddy Kilowatt Says, ‘Good Luck With That’
By David Balaban
According to a report from Recorded Future, it seems the ruling elite in North Korea are now using the Internet more and more to take advantage of money-making opportunities and avoid various economic sanctions. Not only is the Kim reg… Continue reading Elite North Koreans aren’t opposed to exploiting internet for financial gain
Dr. José de Arimatéia da Cruz, PhD and Lieutenant Commander Travis Howard’s singularly definitive scrutiny of irregular cyberwar I have yet read is today’s Must Read. If you read anything else today targeting Cyberwar, you should read it. No… Continue reading José de Arimatéia da Cruz and Travis Howard’s ‘The Feet of the Masters: Lessons on Irregular Cyber Warfare’
Authoritarian regimes are using spyware tools bought from private companies in the West. Hacker PhineasFisher targeted these companies to reveal their deals to suppress dissent. […] Continue reading Cyberwar Season 1 – Episode 3: Cyber Mercenaries
A report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies looks at surprise and war. One of the report’s cyberwar scenarios is particularly compelling. It doesn’t just map cyber onto today’s tactics, but completely reimagines future tactics that include a cyber component (quote starts on page 110). The U.S. secretary of defense had wondered this past week when the other… Continue reading Future Cyberwar
via David E. Sanger (author of ‘The Perfect Weapon’) comes this frank discussion of the true nature of war – in this case, cyber-war) and the effect (some might say ‘affectation’) of certain population groups (whether dis- or en- franchised) therein. … Continue reading The Sanger Attestation, ‘The Age of Cyberwar is Here…’
via Rob Knake, writing at the Council on Foreign Relations’ online outlet: Foreign Affairs and in the Snapshot section, comes this astute examination of the co-called cyberwarfare space’s soft underbelly – power generation. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt… Continue reading The Next Battleground
At that time (2014) the Sony Hack was one of the worst attacks against a corporation. Not only were embarrassing emails released, personal health records of employees and their family and social security numbers to name a few were dumped. […] Continue reading Cyberwar Season 1 – Episode 2: The Sony Hack
Documents obtained by Motherboard give insight into how hackers at CYBERCOM prepare before launching offensive cyber operations, including figuring out how likely an attack will be attributed back to them. Continue reading How US Military Hackers Prepared to Hack the Islamic State
In 2016, the US was successfully deterred from attacking Russia in cyberspace because of fears of Russian capabilities against the US. I have two citations for this. The first is from the book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on Americ… Continue reading An Example of Deterrence in Cyberspace