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The Cyber Storm II Cyber Exercise

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2008-04-03 12:29:03 by HASH0x8b6d0a8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Cyber Storm" Cyber Exercise aiming to evaluate the preparedness for cyber attacks of several governments two years ago, and pointed out that Frontal attacks could rarely occur, as cyberterrorism by itself wouldn't need to interact with the critical infrastructure, it would abuse it, use it as platform. However, building confidence within...
 
Tags: cyber warfare, passive cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, offensive cyber warfare, cyber warfare exercise, warfare, econonomic warfare, cyber warfare attacks, broader information warfare
 
 
 
 
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Who's Behind the Georgia Cyber Attacks?

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2008-08-14 10:16:34 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cyber attack in progress ), common sense must prevail Sometimes, the degree of incompetence can in fact be pretty entertaining, and greatly explains why certain countries are lacking behind others with years in their inability to understand the rules of information warfare, or the basic premise of unrestricted warfare, that there are no...
 
Tags: attacks, georgia cyber attacks, warfare, departamental cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, information warfare concept, information warfare, russian, russian oligarchs
 
 
 
 
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Cyber Jihadist Hacking Teams

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2007-12-17 20:03:29 by HASH0x847073c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cyber jihadists whose cheap PSYOPS dominate, given the lack of strategical thinking, and the lack of sustainable communication channels between them, ruined all of their Electronic Jihad campaigns so far. Religious fundamentalism by itself evolves into religious fanaticism, and with the indoviduals in a desperate psychological need for a...
 
Tags: anti-islamic web sites, islamic web sites, web, jihad, electronic jihad program, campaign, electrnic jihad campaign, web sites, cyber jihad
 
 
 
 
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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...CYBER STORM" (ok, officially it's just plain ol' "Cyber Storm," but a title like that begs for caps What is it? Or rather, what was it? The "National Cyber Exercise" was a 2006 Homeland Security (and other federal agencies) sponsored simulation of computer and network attacks. Here's the specific detail from a DHS slide deck Provided a...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...CYBER STORM" (ok, officially it's just plain ol' "Cyber Storm," but a title like that begs for caps What is it? Or rather, what was it? The "National Cyber Exercise" was a 2006 Homeland Security (and other federal agencies) sponsored simulation of computer and network attacks. Here's the specific detail from a DHS slide deck Provided a...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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US Government planning to spend 10% of its IT budget on cyber-security by 2009.

2008-02-25 13:59:58 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...cyber-security may seem surprising to some, especially when compared to an average 8% of IT spend in the commercial sector across North America and Europe. As many of us have seen stagnation in our security budgets, the US government has increased its cyber-security budget by a whopping 73% since 2004. The media has picked up on things such...
 
Tags: cyber-security, budget, cyber-security budget, security, government, measure security, security budgets, mature security postures, government infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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Backdoording Cyber Jihadist Ebooks for Surveillance Purposes

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2008-06-25 17:06:38 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cyber jihadists are striking back at the academic and intelligence community, by binding their propaganda Ebooks with malware, then distributing them across different forums, thanks to a recently analyzed Ebook entitled " The Al-Qaeda network's timely entrance in Palestine " distributed by the Global Islamic Media Front - hat tip to Warintel...
 
Tags: ebooks, intelligence community, cyber jihadist forums, forums, cyber jihadist research, internet, malware, hardcore cyber jihadist, forum
 
 
 
 
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The Russia vs Georgia Cyber Attack

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2008-08-11 19:35:55 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cyber siege to come a week later. Here's the complete coverage of the coordination phrase, the execution and the actual impact of the cyber attack so far - " Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress Whos behind it? The infamous Russian Business Network, or literally every Russian supporting Russias actions? How coordinated and...
 
Tags: georgia cyber attack, cyber attack, attack, georgia, georgia president, russian, russian web, ddos attack, russian hackers
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...cyber espionage becomes increasingly sophisticated, moving from simple network probes to well-funded, well-organized, and possibly government backed operations. The intent is not only financial gain, but also political or competitive gain Some other interesting news items have appeared in the recent past 1. Germanys respected weekly, Der...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies