Recruiting for the Cyber Wars

Posted by Matt in April 15th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Military, U.S., Cyberwar, hackers, slackers

Uncle Sam wants you—to help defend against Internet threats. But is the military any place for slackers and hackers?
The U.S. military is looking for a few good geeks. “This building will be attacked 3 million times today,” announces the commentator as the Pentagon appears on an ad available on the popular video site YouTube [...]

Pentagon official: China may already be at cyberwar with U.S.

Posted by Matt in March 13th, 2008 | 1 comment

Published in China, Military, U.S., War, Cyberwar

Chinaâ€™s growing cyberwarfare capabilities are an emerging threat already being felt by the U.S., a senior Pentagon official said.
David Sedney, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, said â€œthere continue to be around the world, not just in the United States but around the world, many, many computer intrusions that are sourced back to [...]

Chinese Cyberattacks Target US Think Tanks

Posted by Matt in March 6th, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Cyberwar

Defense-related think tanks and contractors, as well as the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, were the target of repeated computer network intrusions last year apparently originating in China, the Department of Defense said this week. In its annual report to lawmakers on China’s military power, the department said the intrusions “appeared to originate in” China [...]

We Traced the Cyberwar — It’s Coming From Inside the Country!

Posted by Matt in January 24th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Europe, Cyberwar, Estonia

A 20-year-old man named Dmitri Galushkevich is the first cyber solider to face justice for launching one of the attacks in last year’s “cyber war” against Estonia, AFP reports.
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And so it comes as quite a shock to THREAT LEVEL to learn that the attacker convicted today isn’t a member of the Russian military, nor [...]

Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia

Posted by Matt in May 17th, 2007 | no comment

Published in Europe, Russia, Cyberwar, Estonia, Europe, Russia

Â· Parliament, ministries, banks, media targeted
Â· Nato experts sent in to strengthen defences
A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications.
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