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N.Korea in warship sinking cyber campaign

"North Korea has mounted a cyber campaign -- using stolen identities of South Korean Internet users -- to spread its claim that Seoul faked evidence on the sinking of a warship, officials said Tuesday. Intelligence officials believe the North hacked into the Internet identities of housewives, students and others for its campaign, the Munhwa Ilbo afternoon newspaper said. The North has put forward the view through websites at home and abroad to give the impression that many South Koreans do not trust the findings of a multinational investigation team, it said. The paper said South Korean intelligence officials are tracking the campaign. 'The report is true,' a National Intelligence Service (NIS) spokesman told AFP, declining to give details." (Source: AFP: N.Korea in warship sinking cyber campaign: Seoul ›
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Pentagon works to define rules of cyber warfare

"The U.S. military may never have a direct answer on when to fire back against a computer-based attack, a top Pentagon leader said Wednesday, reflecting the complex world of cyber warfare. James Miller, the principal deputy undersecretary of defense, said the Pentagon has been working through a range of scenarios, in an effort to come up with rules of war t ›
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Pentagon says military response to cyber attack possible

"Asked about the possibility of using military force after a cyber assault, James Miller, undersecretary of defense for policy, said: ‘Yes, we need to think about the potential for responses that are not limited to the cyber domain.' But he said it remained unclear what constituted an act of war in cyberspace. ‘Those are legal questions that we are att ›
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China attacks biased U.S. cyber-spying report

"China on Monday accused a U.S. congressional advisory panel of bias for a report in which it said the Chinese government appeared increasingly to be piercing U.S. computer networks to gather useful data for its military. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in its 2009 report to Congress released last week that there was growing evid ›
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Mossad Hacked Syrian Official’s Computer Before Bombing Mysterious Facility

"Agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel. The intelligence agents planted a Trojan horse on the official’s computer in late 2006 while he was staying at a ho ›
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Cyberattacks traced to NKorea

"The North Korean government was the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, news reports said Friday. The IP address — the Web equivalent of a street address or phone number — that triggered the Web attacks was traced back to North Korea's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, the chief of South Kor ›
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Report: China building cyberwarfare capabilities

"China is building its cyberwarfare capabilities and appears to be using the growing technical abilities to collect U.S. intelligence through a sophisticated and long-term computer attack campaign, according to an independent report. Released Thursday by a congressional advisory panel, the study found cases suggesting that China's elite hacker community has ›
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Air Force Establishes ‘Reduced’ Cyber-War Command

A year ago, the Air Force suspended its plans to set up a new “cyber command” for network defense and online warfare. The suspension came at a tumultuous time for the air service. Its two top officials had just been canned, botched airplane buys were under close scrutiny and Air Force nuke handlers were reeling from several potentially catastrophic gaffe ›
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Cyber Attack Against Georgia Blurred Civilian And Military

The cyber attacks against Georgia last year marked the first known time that computer networks were assaulted by civilians in conjunction with physical attacks conducted by a national military force. A report on the events of August 2008 by the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a non-profit research institute, suggests that future conflicts may follow a similar ›
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Would a U.S. cyberattack on Iraq have changed things?

When you talk about the invasion of Iraq, no matter what your stance, the conversation is bound to get ugly. There are some strong feelings on both sides concerning the 2003 invasion launched by the Bush administration. However, a story recently published by The New York Times begs the question; would it truly have mattered if the U.S. launched a cyberattack ›
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General: We Just Might Nuke Those Cyber Attackers

How would the American military respond to an attack on its networks? If we take the commander of U.S. strategic forces at his word, they’d nuke those hackers, if need be. Speaking to reporters at a press breakfast last week, Gen. Kevin Chilton, the head of U.S. Strategic Command, said the president retained the option to retaliate with military force in ›
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No options ‘off the table’ for U.S. response to cyber attacks

The U.S. military’s response to a cyber attack would not necessarily be limited to cyberspace, the head of U.S. Strategic Command said Thursday. "The Law of Armed Conflict will apply to this domain," said Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton. The United States’ response to a cyber attack would be decided by the president and Defense secretary, Chilton told ›
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S. Korea: N. Korea engaging in cyber-war

North Korea is operating a cyber-reconnaissance unit that targets South Korean and U.S. military networks, South Korean intelligence personnel said Tuesday. The Korean People's Army has been operating for years a "technology reconnaissance team," charged with collecting information and disrupting military computer networks in South Korea and the United States, South Korea ›