The role of cyberwar
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- Wars of the Near Future
- By K. Sundarji, Asiaweek 9 January 1998. To
fight a new-style enemy, ‘information’
weapons. Supranational agencies to repress groups newly
empowered by electronic communications.
- CIA to launch secret cyberwar
- South News, 23 May 1999. President Clinton
has authorized the CIA to undertake a series of undercover
actions that include the use of US government computers to
hack into banks accounts. NATO allies were to be kept in
the dark about the plan.
- Preparing for cyberwar; Mars gives way to
Minerva
- By Francis Pisani, Le Monde diplomatique,
August 1999. After the U.S. war in Kosovo some of the old
certainties inherited from the cold war are about to give
way to new military doctrines. The network is now the
organisational paradigm.
- U.S. Military Grapples With Cyber Warfare
Rules
- Reuters, 8 November 1999. The U.S. Defense Department
considered hacking into computer networks to disrupt
military operations and basic civilian services, but
refrained from doing so because of continuing
uncertainties and limitations surrounding the emerging
field of ‘cyber warfare,’
- Cyberattack
- By Ellen Messmer, IDG, 22 November 2000. The
U.S. military is preparing to launch a cyberattack against
potential adversaries, some of whom are stockpiling
cyberweapons. Such an attack would likely involve
launching massive distributed denial-of-service assaults,
unleashing crippling computer viruses or Trojans, and
jamming the enemy's computer systems through
electronic radio-frequency interference.
- Cyber threat more dangerous than military
attack
- IT-Director.com, Brit info, 3 April 2001. British
national infrastructure is now more at danger from cyber
attacks than it is from any military threat. The U.S. FBI
finished a year-long investigation and issued an
unprecedented alert over the activities of hackers mainly
from eastern Europe.
- Cyber warfare to be part of Taiwan war
drill
- The Straits Times, 8 August
2000. Taiwan’s military will test whether computer
viruses can be used as a strike weapon. In the event of
attack, viruses will be one form of defence. Teams that
will square off later this month in the Han Kuang war
games will use computer viruses collected by the military
to attack each other’s information network.
- CyberArmy declares war
- By Megan McAuliffe, ZDNet Australia, 19 January
2001. With a member base of 35,000, CyberArmy may have the
biggest armament the Net has ever seen, rallying to take
down Web sites that ‘abuse’ the World Wide
Web—and removing power from governments. CyberArmy
started off as a small group of advocates promoting free
speech and Internet deregulation.
- World Governments Choosing Linux for National
Security
- By Jim Krane, The Associated Press, 3 December 2001. For
reasons of national security and national pride, government
officials in countries like China, France and Germany are
increasingly adopting the free, open-source computer
operating system known as Linux. Microsoft Windows is
prone to viruses and hackers.
- The FBI's Magic Lantern: Ashcroft Can Be
in Your Computer
- By Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice, 24 May
2002. The FBI has asked “Internet service providers
to install technology in their networks to secretly read
e-mails.” That molestation of privacy was called
“Carnivore.” But the FBI has developed an even
more insidious device to obtain “the most intimate
occurrences of the home”and office. Beware of
“The Magic Lantern.”
- Bush reportedly asks for cyber-warfare
policy
- By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, 7 February
2003. President George W. Bush has reportedly directed the
U.S. government to develop a policy on waging cyber-warfare,
but one security vendor suggested such tactics could
backfire.
- Hackers attack al-Jazeera website
- Reuters, Friday 28 March 2003. A hacker attack has
sidelined the website of Arab satellite TV network
al-Jazeera, as cyber-vandals replaced the news site with a
stars-and-stripes logo saying “Let Freedom
Ring”. The site has suffered constant cyber attacks
since an English language version devoted to the war in Iraq
was launched on Monday.
- Israeli team in Delhi to propagate
‘digital warfare’
- By Rajat Pandit, The Times of India (Mumbai),
25 May 2005. Even as the Army gears up to face the rapidly
evolving challenges of information warfare in a digitised
battlefield, a top Israeli military delegation has arrived
in New Delhi to discuss cooperation in C4I (command,
co-ntrol, communications, computers and intelligence)
systems. Conflicts in the future are expected to be fought
primarily in the theatre of information warfare (IW).