Cyber Threats

NATO Faces About Ten Serious Cyber Incidents Each Month

Jorge Benitez — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:14:57 -0500

From Paul Ames, Global Post: The Boolea attack is fiction, the center-piece of operation Locked Shields, a "live fire" cyber exercise run by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in late April, to test the rapid response capabilities of allied cyber units.

NSA Deputy Warns Against Cyber Vigilantes

Jorge Benitez — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:02 -0500

From Colin Clark, Breaking Defense: The private sector — and the government — must “exhaust” the use of traditional responses such as public shaming, criminal charges, diplomatic demarches, and sanctions “before we contemplate the dangerous possibility we might encourage vigilantism

Report Recommends US Permit Private Counterattacks Against International Hackers

Jorge Benitez — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:15:58 -0500

From David E. Sanger, New York Times: With President Obama preparing for a first meeting with China’s new president, a commission led by two former senior officials in his administration will recommend a series of steps that could significantly raise the cost to China of the theft of American industrial secrets.

NATO’s New Relevance as a Cyber Alliance

Jorge Benitez — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:03:24 -0500

From Siobhan MacDermott, AVG: NATO is a creature of crisis, having come into being early in the Cold War as an intergovernmental alliance between the United States and the European democracies for collective defense against attack

Digital Warfare: North Korean Cyber-Rattling

Jorge Benitez — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:11:10 -0500

From Economist: Earlier this month the Department of Defence delivered a report to Congress accusing the hermit kingdom's expanding army of “cyber-warriors” of using foreign infrastructure, such as broadband networks, to launch cyber-attacks on American allies, most notably South Korea.

EU Invites NATO to Boost Cyber Cooperation

Jorge Benitez — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:17 -0500

From NATO Parliamentary Assembly: The European Union’s top justice official invited NATO on Saturday to work more closely with the EU to combat cyber-crime and create a safe Internet environment where citizen’s rights and personal data are protected.

The Unique Characteristics of Cyber Weapons

Jorge Benitez — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:33 -0500

From Panayotis A. Yannakogeorgos, National Interest: Cyber events breaching the threshold of armed attack require the use of cyberweapons. These differ substantially from other malicious code.

NSA Chief: US Under Constant Cyber Attack Threat

Jorge Benitez — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:48:26 -0500

From Andrea Shalal-Esa and Deborah Charles, Reuters: The top U.S. general in charge of cyber security warned on Tuesday that the United States is increasingly vulnerable to attacks