Titled “800 Titles but no policy – Thoughts on Cyber Warfare,” the piece examines the cyber arms race and government responses to cyber warfare threats.
Tag Archives: Cyberweapons
Citizen Lab Fellow Camino Kavanagh co-authors article on cyber warfare
February 4, 2013 – 9:41 pm
Boeing tests counter-electronics advanced missile project weapon, blacks out electronics
October 31, 2012 – 7:18 am
Source: Boeing
A recent weapons flight test in the Utah desert may change future warfare after the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage.
The rise of cyber weapons and relative impact on cyberspace
October 5, 2012 – 4:47 pm
Source: Pierluigi Paganini, InfoSec Institute
Cyberspace is considered by the principal governments to be the fifth domain of warfare such as space, land, sea and air, and due to this reason, principal countries are mass investing in the development of new cyber capabilities to protect it.
Cyberwarfare emerges from shadows for public discussion by U.S. officials
September 26, 2012 – 10:59 am
Source: Scott Shane, The New York Times
For years, even as the United States carried out sophisticated cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear program and the Pentagon created a Cyber Command, officials have been hesitant to discuss American offensive cyberwarfare programs openly.
McCain promotes offensive cyber capabilities
June 8, 2012 – 8:52 am
Source: Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News
The U.S. military is placing too much emphasis on defense against cyber attacks when it should be developing offensive cyber capabilities, according to Sen. John McCain.
Hackers breached top secret defense systems, UK cyber-security chief admits
May 3, 2012 – 2:08 am
Source: Nick Hopkins, The Guardian
Computer hackers have managed to breach some of the top secret systems within the Ministry of Defence, the military’s head of cyber-security has revealed.
Pentagon to fast-track cyberweapons acquisition
April 9, 2012 – 2:16 pm
Source: Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post
The Pentagon is planning to dramatically speed up the development of new cyberweapons, giving it the ability in some cases to field weapons against specific targets in a matter of days, according to a new Pentagon report to Congress.
Syrian Internet Shutdown and the Ongoing Militarization and Contestation of Cyberspace
June 3, 2011 – 3:53 pm
Today, it was reported by Renesys that beginning at 3:35 UTC and in the course of an hour and a half, two-thirds of Syrian networks had become disconnected from the global Internet.
This latest Internet black out is an example of just-in-time blocking—a phenomenon in which access to content and information communication technologies are blocked in response to sensitive political situations when the technology and content may have the greatest potential impact. It is suspected that the severing of Syria’s Internet is in direct response to the intensification of revolts this week, sparked in part by the death and torture of 13 year old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, as well as in memory of at least 50 other children killed during the protests. This action follows other MENA states severing access in reaction to protest on ground with Egypt shutting down national connectivity on January 28, 2011 and access blockages in Libya and Bahrain in February. For further analysis, see today’s OpenNet Initiative blogpost.
