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Sep 12, 2012

Release of NATO sponsored manual on the international law applicable to cyber warfare

By NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence

From NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence:  The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, written at the invitation of the Centre by an independent ‘International Group of Experts’, is the result of a three-year effort to examine how extant international law norms apply to this ‘new’ form of warfare.

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Sep 12, 2012

Gates warns that terrorists ‘using off-the-shelf equipment can develop toxic tools and deploy them with great effect’

By Brian Prince, Security Week

From Brian Prince, Security Week:  In a keynote today at the ISC2 Security Congress in Philadelphia, [Robert] Gates – who served as defense secretary from 2006 and 2011 and is also a former director of the CIA – said the threat of cyber-war waged by nation-states in some ways is less problematic than the prospect […]

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Sep 11, 2012

US increasing cyber cooperation with key allies

By John Reed, Killer Apps

From John Reed, Killer Apps:  The Defense Department has reached what Pentagon officials describe a key agreement with some of the United States’ closest international allies to share information in the cyber realm.

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Sep 11, 2012

Army and Marines developing offensive cyber support ‘for the most forward, tactical commanders’

By John Reed, Killer Apps

From John Reed, Killer Apps:  The Army and Marine Corps are developing procedures that allow front-line troops to request offensive cyber support the same way they currently request artillery and air support.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

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Sep 10, 2012

Cyber Weapons: A New Kind of Warfare

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  [F]aced with rising intrusions against computers that run America’s military systems and its essential infrastructure — its power grid, for instance, and its telecommunications networks — the military here (and elsewhere) sees disruptive software as an essential new tool of war.

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Sep 7, 2012

‘Patriotic hackers’ in Armenia and Azerbaijan escalate crisis with cyber attacks

By Gohar Abrahamyan, ArmeniaNow

From Gohar Abrahamyan, ArmeniaNow:  The August 31 extradition and further pardon of Azeri murderer Ramil Safarov serving a life sentence in Hungary for killing an Armenia officer has been met with many acts of protest, including cyber attacks.

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Sep 6, 2012

Coming soon on demand: Cyber weapons

By John Reed, Killer Apps

From John Reed, Killer Apps:  Last month, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) gave six firms contracts valued at up to $300 million under a program called Agile Cyber Technologies (ACT), which will essentially keep these companies on retainer to provide cyber weapons on-demand under a form of contracting known as Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ).

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Sep 5, 2012

Clinton tells China ‘it is vital’ to curb increasing number of cyber attacks

By the Department of State

From the Department of State:  Excerpts from remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

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Sep 3, 2012

Scandinavia wants cyberwar weapons

By SC Magazine

From SC Magazine:  Finland has joined Sweden in plans to build an offensive capability as part of its national online defence arsenal.

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Sep 3, 2012

Taiwan investing in new ‘cyberwarfare’ capabilities

By Lo Tien-pin and Jake Chung, the Taipei Times

From Lo Tien-pin and Jake Chung, the Taipei Times:  With increasing numbers of cyberattacks targeting Taiwan, the US and Japan being traced back to China, the government has increased its budget for cyberwarfare capabilities, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said in a report on Friday.

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