Cyberwarfare

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The Future Of The US Military: Drones, Computer Viruses, Outer Space

4:30PM January 6, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Now that we’re both out of Iraq and money, the US government has to make some very important decision about how it’ll kill its enemies in the future. Obama and his generals have weighed in: cheap war is getting techier. More »


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Did The US Create The Conficker Virus To Wipe Out Iran’s Nukes?

5:40AM December 6, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The Conficker worm was one of the more intriguing and potentially destructive pieces of malware in the past decade. Earlier reports have suggested that Stuxnet was created by the US and Israeli governments, and now Reuters has a source telling them Conficker was also used to negate Iran’s nuclear program. More »


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China Slips And Reveals Its Own Cyberattacks On State TV

10:20AM August 25, 2011 | Kwame Opam

In a direct contradiction to China’s official line about their never attack nations or groups online, Chinese state television CCTV briefly displayed footage showing their military students training for cyberattacks. Just enough to get then in trouble. Oops! More »


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Operation Shady Rat Is The Largest Cyber Attack Ever Uncovered

4:15PM August 3, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

If it wasn’t true before, it’s definitely true now. Hacking isn’t just for giggles, it’s a major threat to international security. More »


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US Says It’ll Respond To Online Attacks With Offline Warfare

11:20AM June 1, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Up until now, the Pentagon’s been concerned with how best to out-hack hostile hackers. Counter-cyberwarfare. But that’s changed – the military’s decided digital attacks can be considered acts of war, with bombs, not bits, dropped in return, the WSJ reports. More »


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Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Facility Splits Time As Cyberweapon Testing Ground

6:00AM January 17, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Stuxnet, the complex computer worm that nearly crippled Iran’s still-functioning nuclear program, didn’t just sprout from the ether. It was created, by Man, and was probably tested in Israel at the massive (and oft-unacknowledged) Dimona nuclear facility. More »


‘Cyber’ Warfare And How To Earn Millions By Making China Scary

11:20AM October 29, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Seymour Hersh’s recent peek inside “cyber warfare” possibly affirms two things we kinda already knew: people are easily spooked, and there’s plenty of money to be made by spooking them. The story, oddly, starts with some hot coffee. More »


Elite Military Hacker Squad Would Stop Wars With Bits, Not Bombs

12:00AM October 4, 2009 | John Herrman

Efforts to drag the US military’s cybersecurity into the 21st century are well underway, but John Arquilla, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, wants more: a preemptive international hacker force, which would cripple enemies before they even become a problem. More »