Archive for the ‘Cyber Warfare’ Category
Congress Should Launch All-Star Commission to Examine Cyber Threats
A report issued last month by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission concluded: ”China is likely using its maturing computer network exploitation capability to support intelligence collection against the U.S. Government and industry by conducting a long term, sophisticated, computer network exploitation campaign.” For the last decade, China has been conducting ”hacker attacks” and network intrusions against U.S. Government and private sector computer networks. In June 2008, Congressman Frank Wolf (VA-10th) revealed that computers in his office had been hacked; authorities concluded that the attacks originated in China. Last May, I argued in The Washington Times that our lack of a declaratory cyber deterrence policy makes us weaker as a nation by…
New Cyber Attacks Showcase Need for Cyber Deterrence Policy
The AP is reporting on a new round of cyber attacks that targeted computer networks at the Treasury Department, Federal Trade Commission and Secret Service. Other targets are reported to have included the White House, Pentagon, and New York Stock Exchange. W. David Gardner of InformationWeek reports that the attack was even more expansive, including more than 25 targets:
Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and South Korea were stepping up their efforts Wednesday to halt a rash of denial of service cyber attacks against more than 25 government agencies and companies. While the source of the attacks wasn’t pinpointed as of Wednesday morning, officials said they suspected the attacks originated in North Korea or from groups…