Cyber Warfare- it is here and now!: "
Hackers,Terrorists or Cyber Warriors? The same infrastructure we use for managing our daily life, communications, trade and security is also providing subversive elements with the means and access to compromise our national security. This article provides a summary of a Cyber Warfare seminar conducted this week by the Tel Aviv University Science, Technology and Security workshop."
Below are some events from the BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
June 9, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media
[1] [TUESDAY 6/15] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: 'Don't Hate the
Player, Hate the Game: Internet Games, Social Inequality, and Racist
Talk as Griefing' with Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana
Champaign
(http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/06/nakamura)
WASHINGTON—Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Susan Collins, R-Me., and Thomas Carper, D-Del., will hold a press conference Thursday, June 10 at 11:30 a.m. to introduce the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010. The bill will modernize the government’s ability to safeguard the nation’s cyber networks from attack and bring government and industry together to set national cyber security priorities and improve national cyber security defenses. Lieberman is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Collins is Ranking Member and Carper is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
U.S. Backs Talks on Cyberwar: "
Source: Siobhan Gorman, The Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703340904575284964215965730.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews
"Lawyers Claim Google Wi-Fi Sniffing ‘Is Not an Accident’: "Via: Gizmodo:
Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, despite claims to the contrary.
“At this point, it is our belief that it is not an accident,” said Brooks Cooper, an Oregon attorney suing Google [...]"
To see my speaker page, please visit: Dondi's Def Con Speaker Page
To see a current DRAFT of the paper, please visit: Link to Paper
Estonia has signed an agreement with NATO (which Estonia is a member of) to facilitate cooperation between NATO and Estonia if Estonia is hit by another Internet based attack.
INFORMATION WARFARE: The NATO Cyber War Agreement
Hello everyone. I will be presenting a paper titled "The Extremist Edition of Social Networking: The Inevitable Marriage of Cyber Jihad and Web 2.0" at the 5th International Conference on Information Warfare and Security, which will take place August 8th-10th at The Air Force Institute of Technology. Below is an abstract for the paper.
Abstract: Within the Cyber Warfare community, there are several terms that have become very popular. For example: Cyber Jihad/Terrorism; Online Extremist; Twitter; Facebook; Social Networking; and Web 2.0. Collective dialog about the above terms, however, has not been forward thinking and often fail to predict how our adversaries may adopt these technologies. We are aware of extremists using the internet; we are aware that jihadist may be using Facebook and Twitter. However, we have been thinking like the mass consumers of these products that we are; not like the jihadist themselves. We must investigate whether an online extremist would openly use a mainstream social networking site and risk exposure due to the site’s large number and geographic base of users. Although there is likely a minor presence of Jihadist on Facebook and similar social networking sites, for the most part, online extremist have not fully adopted these technologies that we refer to as Web 2.0. When online extremists adopt Web 2.0, it will not be on those sites that society has come to love. They will employ the very same technologies, it will look similar, but the presence of terrorism in Web 2.0 will not be like one would expect. Social networking technologies have become free and simple to deploy, allowing sites to be literally created in a matter of minutes. If an extremist social networking site is taken down, another one can be created in less than ten minutes. This paper highlights how online extremists are likely to adopt Web 2.0 and the resulting challenges. This paper begins by introducing the reader to Al-Qa’ida’s use of the internet. Then, using Ning, the popular social networking platform as a case study, the paper then highlights the points that: (1) social networking technologies are very conducive to Cyber Jihad; (2) there will be no need for online extremist to use “mainstream” websites like Facebook or Twitter; and (3) the Cyber Warfare Community needs a plan to counter extremist use of their own social networking technologies.
For more information on the conference visit: http://www.academic-conferences.org/iciw/iciw2010/iciw10-home.htm
This is really good reading. Click the link below to get a copy of the journal:
Cyberlaw Edition of The Air Force Law Review (local copy), 2009
