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The Estonia Cyberwar

2008-01-28 12:36:27 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cyberwar" in Estonia last year? When asked about it, I generally say that it's unclear that it wasn't just kids playing politics The reality is even more mundane : ...the attacker convicted today isn't a member of the Russian military, nor is he an embittered cyber warrior in Putin's secret service. He doesn't even live in Russia. He's an...
 
Tags: estonia, 20-year-old ethnic russian, secret service, cyberwar, court fined, cyber warrior, russian military, kroons, russia
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties'

2008-05-06 00:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon's way-out researchers don't just want to build an Internet simulator, to test out cyberwar tactics. They want the range's operators to "realistically replicate human behavior and frailties," too
 
Tags: human behavior, pentagon, frailties, range, cyberwar tactics, way-out researchers, internet simulator, test, operators
 
 
 
 
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The Motivation Behind Adaptive Analytics and CEP

2008-10-11 13:15:26 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...cyberwar, I am not sure, but it was certainly the first publicly documented cyberwar. There is no doubt about this Without getting into all the historical footnotes and significance of this cyberwar that was fought with experts and rule-based systems, I would like to jump to an important conclusion Rule-based systems are useful, but have...
 
Tags: systems, intrusion detection systems, rule-bases systems, transaction- based systems, cep, real-time detection, real-time, complex event, countermeasures
 
 
 
 
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America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves

2008-05-01 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...cyberwar : Russia attacking Estonia in cyberspace. But nearly a year later, evidence that the Russian government was involved in the denial-of-service attacks still hasn't emerged. Though Russian hackers were indisputably the major instigators of the attack, the only individuals positively identified have been young ethnic Russians living...
 
Tags: security, bad guys insecure, guys, non-security, security improves, technologies, dual-use technologies, security improvements, agency
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cyberwar : Russia attacking Estonia in cyberspace. But nearly a year later, evidence that the Russian government was involved in the denial-of-service attacks still hasn't emerged. Though Russian hackers were indisputably the major instigators of the attack, the only individuals positively identified have been young ethnic Russians living...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cyberwar: Russia attacking Estonia in cyberspace. But nearly a year later, evidence that the Russian government was involved in the denial-of-service attacks still hasn't emerged. Though Russian hackers were indisputably the major instigators of the attack, the only individuals positively identified have been young ethnic Russians living...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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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
...cyberwar, as in cyberwar you have two parties with virtual engagement points, in this case it was bandwidth domination by whoever did it over the other. A virtual shock and awe I stopped following the news story by the time every reporter dubbed it the first cyber war, and started following it again when the word hacktivism started gaining...
 
Tags: attacks, georgia cyber attacks, warfare, departamental cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, information warfare concept, information warfare, russian, russian oligarchs
 
 
 
 
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"First Ever CyberWar" Cost $1,642? Bua-ha-ha!

2008-01-25 16:01:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Remember "Estonian DoS", the "first cyber-war ever" (gasp A 20-year-old Estonian student has been fined for participating in a cyberattack that paralyzed Estonian Web sites and soured the country's relationship with Russia, a government official said Thursday. [...] Galushkevich must pay $1,642 So, will the scaremongers please shut up About...
 
Tags: 20-year-old estonian student, estonian web sites, government official, estonian dos, russia, country, org, relationship, cyber-war
 
 
 
 
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2008-04-04 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...CyberWar The final point I'd like to make on cybercrime is that the current set of problems show us nothing about how bad it can possibly get. If you're part of an organzation that does business online, cybercrime is going to be part of your personal future, fo practical risk management: Nice GRC write-up and how it relates to log management...
 
Tags: security, security professional, tenable network security, compliance, compliance reasons, information security, compliance mistakes, compliance technology, safety belt laws