Technology & Innovation

Obama’s Cyberwarfare Strategy Will Backfire

By Jason Healey

America’s generals and spymasters have decided they can secure a better future in cyberspace through, what else, covert warfare, preemptive attacks, and clandestine intelligence. Our rivals are indeed seeking to harm U.S. interests and it is perfectly within the president’s purview to use these tools in response. Yet this is an unwise policy that will […]

Rules of cyberwar: Don’t target nuclear plants or hospitals, says NATO manual

By Owen Bowcott, Guardian

From Owen Bowcott, Guardian:  State-sponsored cyber-attacks must avoid sensitive civilian targets such as hospitals, dams, dykes and nuclear power stations, according to an advisory manual on cyber-warfare written for Nato

Pentagon creating thirteen teams to launch cyberattacks as threat grows

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post:  The Pentagon’s Cyber Command will create 13 offensive teams by the fall of 2015 to help defend the nation against major computer attacks from abroad, Gen. Keith Alexander testified to Congress on Tuesday

Intelligence official cites threat of cyberattacks on U.S.

By Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, New York Times

From Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, New York Times:  The nation’s top intelligence official warned Congress on Tuesday that a cyberattack could cripple America’s infrastructure and economy and suggested that such attacks pose the most dangerous immediate threat to the United States

Pay up for NATO or shut it down

By Philip Stephens, Financial Times

From Philip Stephens, Financial Times:  The absence of war does not deprive the alliance of a raison d’être. If the west has learnt anything about the post-cold war era, it should be that life is unpredictable. The Middle East is in flames, Iran is building a bomb and jihadist extremism has been spreading into Africa.

Pentagon cyberdefenses weak, report warns

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post:  A new report for the Pentagon concludes that the nation’s military is unprepared for a full-scale cyber-conflict with a top-tier adversary and must ramp up its offensive prowess.

China is behind more than 20 serious cyber attacks against Norway

By Nordic Page

Chinese cyberspies have hacked most Washington institutions, experts say

By Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post

From Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post:  Start asking security experts which powerful Washington institutions have been penetrated by Chinese cyberspies, and this is the usual answer: almost all of them.

Policy making in Washington may be cyber resilient

By Haley Barobour and Ed Rogers, Foreign Policy

From Haley Barobour and Ed Rogers, Foreign Policy:  Last week, we learned that the Chinese government had hacked into the computers of some of Washington’s most prominent organizations