North Korea Improves Cyber Warfare Capacity, U.S. Says

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Oct 23, 2012

North Korea Improves Cyber Warfare Capacity, U.S. Says

By Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News

From Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News:  North Korea’s government has a “significant” cyber warfare capability that it continues to improve, the top U.S. commander on the Korean peninsula said.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

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Oct 23, 2012

Britain doubling its number of Reaper drones and activating 1st base in UK

By Telegraph

From Telegraph:  The deployment of the five armed Reaper aircraft, which are used for surveillance and combat operations, will double the number that Britain has available.

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Oct 19, 2012

CIA seeks to expand drone fleet, officials say

By Greg Miller, Washington Post

From Greg Miller, Washington Post:  The CIA is urging the White House to approve a significant expansion of the agency’s fleet of armed drones, a move that would extend the spy service’s decade-long transformation into a paramilitary force, U.S. officials said.

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Oct 18, 2012

Cyber: The Navy’s newest warfighting imperative

By Kendall L. Card and Michael S. Rogers, Proceedings

From Kendall L. Card and Michael S. Rogers, Proceedings:  The opening shots of the next war will likely occur in cyberspace.

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Oct 17, 2012

Canada doubles spending on cyber security

By Canada's Ministry of Public Safety

From Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety:  The Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, today announced funding to further implement Canada’s Cyber Security Strategy and strengthen Canada’s efforts to achieve a secure, stable, and resilient digital infrastructure.

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Oct 17, 2012

Obama administration divided over ‘openly admitting that the United States has deployed a new cyber weapon’

By Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, New York Times

From Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, New York Times:  In advance of Mr. [Secretary of Defense Leon] Panetta’s speech in New York on Thursday, senior officials debated how much to talk about the United States’s offensive capabilities, assessing whether such an acknowledgment could help create a deterrent for countries contemplating attacks on the country.

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Oct 17, 2012

U.S. suspects Iran behind wave of cyberattacks

By Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, New York Times

From Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, New York Times:  American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States

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Oct 15, 2012

Cyber Offense Strategies: The Private Sector and Legal Implications

By Jason Harmala

On October 15, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative hosted an off-the-record workshop discussing whether and how the private sector might use active cyber defenses to counter the continued intrusions faced by companies.

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Oct 12, 2012

Panetta and US declaratory policy on preemptive cyber attacks

By Leon Panetta, Department of Defense

From Leon Panetta, Department of Defense:  Potential aggressors should be aware that the United States has the capacity to locate them and to hold them accountable for their actions that may try to harm America.

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Oct 12, 2012

Panetta on cyber threats to the US: ‘ This is a pre-9/11 moment’

By Leon Panetta, Department of Defense

From Leon Panetta, Department of Defense:  [T]he greater danger facing us in cyberspace goes beyond crime and it goes beyond harassment.  A cyber attack perpetrated by nation states are violent extremists groups could be as destructive as the terrorist attack on 9/11.

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