Experts question US vs China 'cyberwar'
News Real cyberwar or just a slanging match between Chinese and US script-kiddies? While hostilities between American and Chinese Web site crackers looks likely to hot up in coming days, some security experts are questioning whether the so-called...
[May 4, 2001, 16:32]
A Year Ago: Pentagon and hackers in 'cyberwar'
News The hackers didn't receive top secrets but the Pentagon's number two man, Deputy Secretary of Defence John Hamre, says the United States is essentially engaged in an all-out cyberwar. Several experts said such an attack wouldn't have even been...
[March 6, 2000, 6:09]
Pentagon and hackers in 'cyberwar'
News The hackers didn't receive top secrets but the Pentagon's No.man, Deputy Secretary of Defence John Hamre, says the United States is essentially engaged in an all-out cyberwar. Several experts said such an attack wouldn't have even been detected at...
[March 5, 1999, 16:30]
Training the cyberwar troops
News Systems administrator David Riebrandt's first hint that intruders had hacked the military network came from telltale electronic footprints. From the logs -- electronic records of the information passed on the network -- it quickly became evident...
[April 29, 2002, 12:38]
Middle east cyberwar heats up
News An online battle between Israeli and Palestinian vandals escalated this week with the theft and public posting of a database containing the personal information of 700 members of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee on Wednesday and the...
[November 6, 2000, 15:49]
News Burst: Pentagon avoided cyberwar with Yugoslavia
News A report written by the Pentagon General Council concludes that the laws applied to traditional warfare do not adequately outline what sorts of computer attacks would be legal. Full story to follow.
[November 9, 1999, 11:57]
Antiracism site target of cyberattack
News The ADL "has become the latest target in what has apparently become an aggressive cyberwar being waged against pro-Israel organisations in both the United States and in Israel", he said in a statement.
[December 28, 2000, 11:30]
Antispam advocate succumbs to spammer
News A prominent crusader against unsolicited email ads withdrew from an escalating cyberwar with spammers on Wednesday after his Web site and numerous others came under a massive retaliatory attack. Blue Security, a company that provided antispam...
[May 18, 2006, 8:35]
Hackers put porn on militant Muslim site
News Hamas accuses Israeli intelligence of defacing their site, as part of an ongoing Israeli cyberwar -- dubbed e-Jihad -- backed by five months of religious turmoil in Palestine. The Web site of Muslim militant group, Hamas, has suffered a...
[March 8, 2001, 9:49]
Electronic Voting Is Audit free!
Blog Comment Who knows, it may even be the start of the first civil cyberwar between banks, governments and big corps! Glyn, I've got as far as your talk with the audience on blip TV. I was not aware of the internet vote being cross scripted!
[October 24, 2008, 8:45]
Four Press Releases In Search Of A Journo
Blog But I suppose it's good for me.am - Symantec Deploys Cyberwar Defence for Future Military Systems It's Monday, of course. My iPod has just chosen that Boomtown Rats song at random - random! Hah! It knows, I tell you - and I'm trying to divert the...
[June 2, 2008, 12:08]
'Electronic jihad' played down
News The Internet version of a school-yard tiff between Chinese and US vandals did result in perhaps hundreds of mass defacements in 2001, prompting some security experts to call it the China-US Cyberwar. Security experts downplayed media reports that...
[August 26, 2004, 8:10]
Australian gov't calls on experts over DDoS attack
News A group calling itself 'Anonymous' published its threat to wage cyberwar on the Australian government a month ago on YouTube. Security experts from Australia's Department of Defence have been called in to assist federal government agencies that...
[September 10, 2009, 10:18]
High-Tech Crimes Revealed review
Reviews Overall, High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front is a useful and interesting -- if distinctly US-orientated -- book. Branigan is a former manager for Bell Labs Computing and Network Research, and has a background in both...
[November 17, 2004, 7:35]
Schneier on Security review
Reviews Other broad topics include terrorism, ID cards, disasters, psychology, cybercrime and cyberwar, and the economics of security. It's easy to forget, with the headlines consumed by proposals to nationalise the banks, that also on the government's...
[October 22, 2008, 14:39]
