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May 16, 2017

Braw in The Times: Cyberwar Is Just as Dangerous as an Armed Attack

By Elisabeth Braw

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Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

May 15, 2017

A Simple Security Update Could Have Prevented Ransomware Attack

By Ashish Kumar Sen

A cyberattack that has crippled 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries could have been prevented had the victims conducted a simple security update. “One of the lessons learned here is that people just do not patch their systems,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, a nonresident senior fellow in the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s […]

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In the News

May 15, 2017

Woods in The Guardian: The NHS Got Lucky – For Now. Cyber-Attacks Will Only Get Worse

By Beau Woods

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Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

May 15, 2017

Corman Quoted by E&E News on “Ransomware” Cyberattack

By Joshua Corman

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Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

May 15, 2017

Woods Joins WSBTV on Recent Global Cyberattack

By Beau Woods

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Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

May 5, 2017

New Cyber Campaign Netrepser Compromised More than 500 Ministries and Departments Worldwide

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

Researchers have unearthed a new cyber espionage campaign that has compromised more than 500 government ministries and departments worldwide — by hiding in plain sight

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NATOSource

May 5, 2017

Germany Wants to Destroy Foreign Servers Carrying Out Cyber Attacks

By Andrea Shalal, Reuters

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency accused Russian rivals of gathering large amounts of political data in cyber attacks

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Defense Industrialist

May 5, 2017

Must go faster

By James Hasik

The Army, Navy, and Air Force Departments all seem to be talking up new ideas for fast-moving weapons. So does the Pentagon need to be putting more money there? Does any other defense ministry? Perhaps, but sometimes necessity is truncated by feasibility. For with hypersonics, the tactical advantages are great, but so are the technical challenges.

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New Atlanticist

May 3, 2017

Cyber War’s Terror Trinity: Means, Motive, and Opportunity

By Ian Fairchild

In March of 2003, I commanded an EC-130 Compass Call, an aircraft configured to perform tactical command, control, and communications countermeasures, over the skies of Iraq. My crew’s mission was to jam enemy communications and help allied forces preserve Iraq’s oil infrastructure. During these missions, we positioned ourselves some distance from the intended target, while […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Apr 28, 2017

Evolution and the occasional über-gizmo

By James Hasik

Thoughts on corporate strategies in the military aircraft industry  Last week, I provided a guest lecture at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, that graduate college of the National Defense University formerly known as the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. The school was founded in 1924 as the Army Industrial College, on a […]

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