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Majority of British polled support pre-emptive cyber attacks

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Majority of British polled support pre-emptive cyber attacks

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Cyberattacks are hurting US businesses. Here’s how Congress can upgrade cybersecurity information sharing.

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Hackers are targeting small and medium-sized businesses, and the existing framework for sharing important information is leaving these US companies out of the loop.

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Majority of British polled support pre-emptive cyber attacks

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The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorrow series explores Russia’s wartime cyber operations and broader cyber web.

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Jan 2, 2013

Majority of British polled support pre-emptive cyber attacks

By Tom Whitehead, Telegraph

From Tom Whitehead, Telegraph:  The majority of the public believe pre-emptive strikes are justified if enemy states or hi-tech criminals pose a threat to national security. Earlier this year, a committee of MPs and peers said Britain should declare cyber war on those who target the country through aggressive retaliatory strikes to destroy their operations. […]

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Dec 20, 2012

Report: NATO members need to work on cyber resiliency

By Haly Laasme, Cicero Foundation

From Haly Laasme, Cicero Foundation:  NATO’s Global Commons Report seems to suggest that because the new Strategic Concept committed NATO to a strong defence posture in cyberspace, it would also somehow assure the Alliance  to be at the front edge in assessing the security impact of emerging challenges.

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Dec 19, 2012

US Plans to Indict State-Sponsored Cyber Attackers

By Aram Roston, Defense News

From Aram Roston, Defense News:  In an intriguing push against the ever-increasing number of foreign-governments sponsored cyber attacks against U.S. companies, the U.S. Department of Justice intends to turn to its roots with an old-fashioned tactic that has worked against the mafia, drug traffickers and white collar crime: criminal prosecutions.

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Dec 13, 2012

Cyber Warfare: Hype and Fear

By Economist

From Economist:  Political and military leaders miss no chance to declare that cyberwar is already upon us. America’s defence secretary, Leon Panetta, talks of a “cyber-Pearl Harbour”. A senior official says privately that a cyber-attack on America that “would make 9/11 look like a tea party” is only a matter of time. . . . […]

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Nov 26, 2012

Rasmussen: ‘Switzerland has made an enormous investment in NATO’s partnership programs’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  I am very pleased to say that one partnership that has been steadily strengthening is NATO’s partnership with Switzerland. 

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Nov 24, 2012

As cyberwarfare heats up, allies turn to U.S. companies for expertise

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post:  In the spring of 2010, a sheik in the government of Qatar began talks with the U.S. consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton about developing a plan to build a cyber-operations center.

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Nov 21, 2012

US rejects claims it participated in hacking of French presidential staff

By Jamey Keaten, AP

From Jamey Keaten, AP:  The U.S. Embassy in Paris on Wednesday "categorically" denied claims in a French magazine report that the U.S. government was behind a hacking attack against computers in the French president’s palace earlier this year.

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Nov 21, 2012

French press accuse US of hacking computers in Presidential Palace

By Phil Muncaster, the Register

From Phil Muncaster, the Register:  US-sponsored snoopers hacked into the computers of the Élysée Palace earlier this year ahead of the French presidential election and lifted top secret information, using what appears to be the notorious Flame malware, a French newspaper has alleged. The attack, which occurred in May a few days before the second […]

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Nov 14, 2012

Is China’s economic espionage the ‘most aggressive’ in the world?

By James A. Lewis, Foreign Affairs

From James A. Lewis, Foreign Affairs:  China is not the only country to use economic espionage, but it is the most aggressive. In key industries — telecommunications, aerospace, energy, and defense — the strategy has worked well. Now, the new Chinese leadership risks seeing the boost from spying undercut both China’s international leadership and its […]

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Nov 14, 2012

Obama signs secret directive to help thwart cyberattacks

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post:  President Obama has signed a secret directive that effectively enables the military to act more aggressively to thwart cyberattacks on the nation’s web of government and private computer networks.

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