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Russian Cyber-War Waged by Government Hackers on Georgia?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:37:38 GMT

clipped by: TedtheTech
clipper's remarks: Cool article talking about how the future of Cyber-war is already here. We have seen many examples of low profile attacks in the past few years but now we are starting to see very public attacks on the internet and IT infrastructure.

Clip Source: www.custompcblog.com

Russian Cyber-War Waged by Government Hackers on Georgia?

Internet Warfare against Georgia, Is Russia to Blame?

an interesting article I came across outlining cyber attacks that have taken place against the country of Georgia. The information at this point is limited but from early analysis of the attacks experts are concluding Russian involvement in nation wide attacks against the cyber infrastructure of Georgia.

Coupled with DDOS (Distribute Denial of Service) attacks, spoofed websites with political propaganda have been surfacing throughout the region, along with Russia’s blocking traffic to websites in Georgia.

This is an early example of Cyber Warfare in the twenty first century. While this is not the first occurrence we have heard of this, this is certainly one of the most public ones. Security experts are still analyzing logs and timelines to try and determine detailed information about the attacks.

Tags: russia, georgia, cyber, war, internet, russian, hacker, hack, hackers, hacking

More Pastor Scott and Sascha

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:58:55 GMT

clipped by: feliciafinley
clipper's remarks: cool information

Clip Source: 64.233.169.104

d form, Wycliffe’s philosophy represented a complete break with the church. He believed in a direct relationship between humanity and God, without priestly mediation. By a close adherence to the Scriptures, Christians would, Wycliffe believed, govern themselves without the aid of popes and prelates. Wycliffe denounced as unscriptural many beliefs and practices of the established church. He held that the Christian clergy should strive to imitate evangelical poverty, the poverty of Christ and his disciples. Finally, Wycliffe disavowed serfdom and warfare.

For further information on this person, see the section Wycliffe or Wicliff, John.

Direct Attack Against Home Computer by U.S. Department of Defense

Wed, 14 May 2008 04:38:36 GMT

clipped by: zizzy

Clip Source: electromagnet.us

hack attempt against my home computer by a system in France,(88.191.28.59) combined with a mysterious IP address from Sprint in Virginia (205.245.110.154). Immediately after I filed a scorching protest with Sprint, a similar IP address took up the attack. I tracked it to "Space and Warfare Command" in Washington, DC.

Queried whois.arin.net with "!NET-205-96-0-0-1"...

OrgName: DOD Network Information Center SPAWARDEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
OrgID: DNICN
Address: SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEM COMMAND
City: WASHINGTON
StateProv: DC
PostalCode: 20363-5100

Country: US

NetRange: 205.96.0.0 - 205.103.255.255
CIDR: 205.96.0.0/13
NetName: JMCIS-BLOCK3
NetHandle: NET-205-96-0-0-1
Parent: NET-205-56-0-0-1
NetType: Reassigned
NameServer: NCC.NCTS.NAVY.MIL
NameServer: GATE.NCTS.NAVY.MIL
Comment:
RegDate: 1998-05-18

Updated: 2006-10-03

RTechHandle: SCG-ARIN
RTechName: Greunke, Steve
RTechPhone: +1-850-452-7560

RTechEmail: GREUNKES@spawar.navy.mil

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-02-01 19:10

How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words

Sun, 11 May 2008 03:44:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.salon.com

These are excepts from a memorandum sent on January 14, 2005 -- just before President Bush was to be inaugurated for his second term -- from Capt. Roxie T. Merritt, the Director of DoD Press Operations, to several top Pentagon officials, including Larry Di Rita, the top aide to Donald Rumsfeld (pp. 7815-7816 (.pdf)). It reports on Merritt's conclusions and proposals in the wake of a Pentagon-organized trip to Iraq for their military analysts:

The key issue here is that more and more, media analysts are having a greater impact on the television media network coverage of military issues. They have now become the go to guys not only for breaking stories, but they influence the views on issues. They also have a huge amount of influence on what stories the network decides to cover proactively with regard to the military. . . .

Tags: media, war, information warfare, propaganda, lies, damned lies

China's Army Builds For Reach Past Taiwan, U.S. Says

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:00:42 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Other Contingencies

The report concludes that China is thinking beyond Taiwan. ``Analysis of China's military acquisitions and strategic thinking suggests Beijing is also developing capabilities for use in other contingencies, such as conflict over resources or disputed territories,'' it says.

Cyber Warfare

The report also says that China is increasing
its capabilities in space and cyberwarfare.

``In both those areas there's reason for concern,'' said David Sedney, assistant secretary of defense for East Asia.

The system will be operational in the next two to three weeks, he said.

He noted that no one in China ``picked up the phone'' when U.S. officials called after a B-2 bomber accidentally bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in May 1999.

Clip Source: www.bloomberg.com

The report cited what it said were numerous intrusions into computer networks in the past year originating in China. Some of those networks were owned by the U.S. government, although none contained classified information, Sedney said.

While it isn't clear that the Chinese military was responsible for the intrusions, the techniques used are ``consistent with what you would need if you were to actually carry out cyberwarfare,'' Sedney said.

Hotline Set Up

Separately, the Pentagon announced today that the U.S. and China have agreed after years of negotiations to establish a hotline for communications between their military leaders.

China is installing a communication link inside its Ministry of Defense dedicated to U.S.-China ``crisis, emergency and important issues,'' Sedney said in an interview after the briefing.

``We think it's tremendously significant, not just because we have the technology in place but because the Chinese have agreed to it,'' he said.

Tags: cyber warfare, intercontinental ballistic missiles, pentagon, beyond taiwan

Pentagon's Plan for Electronic Warfare

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:48:01 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: Note the last paragraph especially. The war is against us. Note in the article the references to the Project for New American Century as well, the neocon think tank that is driving the plans.

Clip Source: www.globalresearch.ca

The Pentagon's Electronic Warfare Program: Maximum Control of the Entire Electro-Magnetic Spectrum

"Information Operation Roadmap "

In 2003, then Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld signed a document called the Information Operation Roadmap which outlined, among other things, the Pentagon's desire to dominate the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

"We Must Improve Network and Electro-Magnetic Attack Capability. To prevail in an information-centric fight, it is increasingly important that our forces dominate the electromagnetic spectrum with attack capabilities." [emphasis mine] - 6

"According to a recent DOD announcement for contractors, soldiers will be able to drop robots, called LANdroids... when they arrive in a city.

"The Wi-Fi antennae dotting the urban landscape will serve not only as communications relays, but as transponders that can pinpoint the exact positions of of individual computers and mobile phones - a scenario I described in the Boston Globe last year."

Cybercrime vs Cyberterrorism

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:19:56 GMT

clipped by: barrett778
clipper's remarks: Sometimes, it is all about using the right words. Prioritization seems to be the problem in the US Government. National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace is still falling short according to GAO audits. DHS has not figured out how to get in front of this issue, as the executive agent. PITAC recommendation to President should be strongly considered to ensure the funds committed are spent wisely.

Clip Source: www.schneier.com

Since the outbreak of a cybercrime epidemic that has cost the American economy billions of dollars, the federal government has failed to respond with enough resources, attention and determination to combat the cyberthreat, a Mercury News investigation reveals.

"The U.S. government has not devoted the leadership and energy that this issue needs," said Paul Kurtz, a former administration homeland and cybersecurity adviser. "It's been neglected."

Even as the White House asked last week for $154 million toward a new cybersecurity initiative expected to reach billions of dollars over the next several years, security experts complain the administration remains too focused on the risks of online espionage and information warfare, overlooking the international criminals who are stealing a fortune through the Internet.

Tags: cybercrime, cyberterrorism, security, critical infrastructure protection

Report Cites China's Cyber-Warfare Plans

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:41:18 GMT

clipped by: barrett778
clipper's remarks: See PITAC report (2005, I think) for more information on the "Crisis of Prioritization" in protecting the infostructure on which nearly every facet of American life depends. Another great read is "The Cyber War of 2002" (@ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.02/cyberwar.html)

Clip Source: www.eweek.com

Experts disagree on the potential effect of attacks on U.S. government agencies and private companies.

According to Gen. James Cartwright, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, China is already actively engaging in cyber-reconnaissance through the probing of computer networks of U.S. government agencies and private companies.

"I think that we should start to consider that regret factors associated with a cyber-attack could, in fact, be in the magnitude of a weapon of mass destruction," Cartwright told the Commission, referring to the psychological effects that would be generated by the sense of disruption and chaos caused by a cyber-attack.

Despite the different estimates of potential damage from cyber-attacks, all the panelists agreed that developing asymmetric capabilities is a primary focus of the Chinese government's military modernization efforts.

Tags: china, cyber warfare, critical infrastructure protection

U.S.Military's Elite Hacker Crew

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:41:26 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: After discovering that al-ansar.net's servers, which hosted video of
Berg's execution, were within its borders, it took the Malaysian government more than a day to shut the site down.

The debate focused on whether the United States should shut down a website as soon as it posts such brutality.

"There are some tremendous questions being raised about this," said Dietz. "On whether they (JFCCNW) have the legal mandate or the authority to shut these sites down with a defacement or a denial-of-service attack."

Dietz knows a thing or two about information warfare. He led NATO's "I-War" against Serbia in the mid-1990s -- a conflict that many believe was the occasion for the U.S. military to launch its first wave of cyber attacks against an enemy. One story widely reported, but never confirmed, described how a team of military ops was dropped into Serbia, and after cutting a wire leading to a major radar hub, planted a device that emitted phantom targets on Serb radar.

Clip Source: www.wired.com

The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks -- from electric grids to telephone nets.

In simple terms and sans any military jargon, the unit could best be described as the world's most formidable hacker posse. Ever.

Verton said the Defense Department talks often about the millions it spends on defending its networks, which were targeted last year nearly 75,000 times with intrusion attempts. But the department has never admitted to launching a cyber attack -- frying a network or sabotaging radar -- against an enemy, he said.

The Berg execution, a gruesome example of Netpolitiking (.pdf), sparked a back-room debate at the highest levels

Rita Katz, an expert on Islamic terror sites and director of the Washington, D.C.-based Search for International Terrorist Entities, believes a website that posts an execution should be taken out immediately

Tags: hacker posse, cyberwar, enemy networks, electric grids, telephone nets, 75, 000 intrusion attempts, defense department, nick berg execution

Please PETITION Your Senators To Reject LOST

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:18:06 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: # Mandatory information-sharing will afford U.S. enemies data that could be used to facilitate attacks on this country (for example, detailed imagery of underwater access routes and off-shore hiding places);

# Obligatory technology transfers will equip actual or potential adversaries with sensitive and militarily useful equipment and know-how (such as
anti-submarine warfare technology).

HELP US STOP THIS TERRIBLE TREATY!

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOST) is sneaking through the U.S. Senate toward ratification, yet it presents as great a threat to our self-government and our way of life as the immigration schemes our grassroots just defeated. Patriotic Americans across the country need to take action IMMEDIATELY. With elections coming up, Congress must be warned that quick action on LOST will further alienate the American people that are ALREADY upset about recent Congressional immigration and spending policy errors.

Clip Source: ssl.capwiz.com

Tell Congress to REJECT the Law of the Sea Treaty!
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ALERT: Remember a little thing called the Boston Tea Party, leading up to the Revolutionary War? It happened because Americans have never taken kindly to taxation without representation -- or to having our sovereignty stolen by foreign powers.

Well, the United Nations is at it again -- and this time, they may actually succeed in imposing TAXES directly on the American people!

U.S. adherence to this treaty would entail history's biggest and most unwarranted voluntary transfer of wealth AND surrender of sovereignty. LOST, which was a product of the Left/Soviet/non-aligned movement agenda of the 1960s and 1970s, created the International Seabed Authority (ISA). ISA is a new supranational organization with unprecedented powers:

Tags: global tax, u.n., lost, sovereignty, left/soviet agenda, global, dominence

World Jewry Marks 8,000th Day of Jonathan Pollard's Imprisonment

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:13:18 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Jonathan Pollard was a civilian American Naval intelligence analyst. In the mid 1980's, Pollard discovered that information vital to Israel's security was being deliberately withheld.
Israel was legally entitled to this vital security information according to a 1983 Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries.
Information being withheld from Israel included Syrian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare capabilities - being developed for use against Israel. It also included information on ballistic missile development by these countries and information on planned terrorist attacks against Israeli civilian targets.
Pollard was painfully aware that Israeli lives were being put in jeopardy as a result of this undeclared intelligence embargo. He did everything he possibly could to stop this covert policy and to have the legal flow of information to Israel restored. When his efforts met no success, he began to give the information to Israel directly

Clip Source: drybonesblog.blogspot.com

Who Do You Trust?

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

(IsraelNN.com) Justice For Jonathan Pollard (J4JP), an organization established to publicize the facts of the case and promote efforts for his release, says that these 8,000 days represent nearly 22 years of "abandonment and betrayal by Israel, cynical exploitation as a political prisoner by the USA, and cruel and unusual punishment by the 'greatest democracy in the world.'"

This period of 8,000 days in captivity renders Jonathan Pollard the longest-held Israeli captive who is known for certain to still be alive. Only Yehuda Katz, Tzvi Feldman and Zechariah Baumel, who were captured by the Syrians 25 years ago in the 1982 Peace for Galilee War, have been in captivity longer than him - and there is no certainty that they are alive.

President Shimon Peres - who was Prime Minister when Pollard was arrested - said today that at one point, a deal for Pollard's release was nearly consummated, but was thwarted at the last moment by the CIA.

Tags: jonathan pollard, j4jp, israel, shimon peres, olmert

Hamas psychological warfare

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:33:05 GMT

clipped by: spherepet
clipper's remarks: There is no officially declared war in the Middle East. There is no Geneva Convention. And, both sides of many conflicts are not playing by the rules of engagement. So, once again, the Hamas are spreading deception and lies about the fate of captured and kidnapped people.

Clip Source: www.israelnationalnews.com

New Report on MIAs, Family Cites Psychological Warfare

by Ezra HaLevi

(IsraelNN.com) A British-based Arabic newspaper claims kidnapped reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were handed over to Iran. Report of Germany releasing an Iranian prisoner are possibly related.

The London-based Arabic-language daily al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Sunday that Regev and Goldwasser were transferred to Iran in a special operation overseen by a senior Revolutionary Guard commander shortly after their kidnapping by Hizbullah terrorists.

The paper quotes a source in the office of Iran’s Islamic Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saying that the announced release of Iranian intelligence officer Kazem Darabi from a German prison may be related to a deal regarding the MIAs. Darabi is in prison for killing a Kurdish Iranian leader in Germany, and was supposed to be part of a deal to secure information on the fate of IDF airman Ron Arad, who has been missing for over 25 years.

Tags: psychological warfare, hamas

Galula's Counterinsurgency Warfare Theory

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:45:24 GMT

clipped by: davboz
clipper's remarks: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA467236
A .pdf file.Click the above llink or try the one in the clip. Getting into similar thinking (to this type of paper) moves one past the wasteful and senseless kerfluffling over whether or not there IS a global insurgency in play

Clip Source: stinet.dtic.mil

The world in the twenty-first century has become a very dangerous place

we must clearly understand the nature of "the long war" and how to fight successfully to defeat our enemies. Many experts and politicians claim we are fighting a global war on terrorism. This is simply not true. The goal of these non-state actors is to get the United States, and the rest of the Western World, to succumb to their demands, their ideology and eventually, their way of life. We are in the midst of a global insurgency, and the best way to counter this insurgency is to employ the counterinsurgency warfare theory

following strategy research project will define insurgency and the nature of insurgencies

underlining causes of insurgencies and how to apply Galula's counterinsurgency warfare theory

it will outline Galula's counterinsurgency warfare theory by reviewing his strategy, operations and tactics

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Tags: counterinsurgency, insurgency, military strategy, conflict

Made Love, Got War

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:11:33 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: This resonates with me to the max...My generation was betrayed before we were born...

Clip Source: www.mediachannel.org

Let’s Face It: The Warfare State Is Part of Us

By Norman Solomon.

The USA’s military spending is now close to $2 billion a day. This fall, the country will begin its seventh year of continuous war, with no end in sight. On the horizon is the very real threat of a massive air assault on Iran. And few in Congress seem willing or able to articulate a rejection of the warfare state.

The warfare state didn’t suddenly arrive in 2001, and it won’t disappear when the current lunatic in the Oval Office moves on.

The warfare state doesn’t come and go. It can’t be defeated on Election Day. Like it or not, it’s at the core of the United States — and it has infiltrated our very being.

The triumph of the warfare state degrades and suppresses us all. Even before the weapons perform as guaranteed.

– Norman Solomon’s book “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State” will be published in early fall. The foreword is by Daniel Ellsberg. For more information, go to: www.MadeLoveGotWar.com

Tags: usa, mic, war, n.solomon

Not Daleks, Not Warfare. Science!

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:00:50 GMT

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Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

2007 July 31

Explanation: Why are these people shooting a powerful laser into the center of our Galaxy? Fortunately, this is not meant to be the first step in a Galactic war. Rather, astronomers at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) site in Chile are trying to measure the distortions of Earth's ever changing atmosphere. Constant imaging of high-altitude atoms excited by the laser -- which appear like an artificial star -- allow astronomers to instantly measure atmospheric blurring. This information is fed back to a VLT telescope mirror which is then slightly deformed to minimize this blurring. In this case, a VLT was observing our Galaxy's center, and so Earth's atmospheric blurring in that direction was needed. As for inter-galaxy warfare, when viewed from our Galaxy's center, no causalities are expected. In fact, the light from this powerful laser would combine with light from our Sun to together appear only as bright as a faint and distant star.

Tags: science, astronomy, galactic heart, galaxy, warfare