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Home » Cyber-warfare » Cyber Soldier of Fortune

Cyber Soldier of Fortune

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Private orga­ni­za­tions and for that mat­ter indi­vid­u­als that pro­vide military-​​style secu­rity have been in exis­tence for thou­sands of years. Their ori­gins can be traced back to the medieval times. Many refer to the indi­vid­u­als who make up these groups as Soldiers of Fortune. A Soldier of Fortune is a per­son hired to fight for a cause in a coun­try other than their own. Many times they are referred to as mer­ce­nar­ies, but that term car­ries neg­a­tive con­no­ta­tions. These pro­fes­sional sol­diers go where con­flicts break out and where their skills are needed. Now Cyber Soldiers of Fortune are begin­ning to appear as are cyber arms deal­ers.
We have entered a new age of con­flict. The new era of con­flict is one that does not oper­ate in the phys­i­cal worlds and is not defined by phys­i­cal bound­aries. Cyber war­fare, con­flicts and attacks are now a real­ity and a real­ity that every nation in the world must address. Given that this type of war­fare is rel­a­tively new, there is a severe short­age of resources. The three hottest posi­tions emerg­ing are cyber con­flict res­o­lu­tion spe­cial­ists (CCRS) and cyber oper­a­tional sup­port tech­ni­cians (COST). CCRS cre­ate cyber attack strate­gies, plans and direct offen­sive strate­gies against spe­cific tar­gets. The COST pro­vides the hands-​​on devel­op­ment, cus­tomiza­tion and deploy­ment of cyber weapons as directed by the com­mand­ing CCRS. The third hot resource is the cyber espi­onage oper­a­tive (CEO) — the spy.

More and more atten­tion is being given to cyber attacks. They have become an all too fre­quent a topic in the media today. Metrics col­lected by Spy-​​Ops clearly indi­cate the rapid growth in cov­er­age of these inci­dents. The chart to the right tracks cyber threat aware­ness. As the num­ber and sig­nif­i­cance of inci­dent increase the media cov­er­age and threat aware­ness increase. The spike that occurred in April is sure to increase the demand for these resources. Patty Luther, a secu­rity recruit­ing spe­cial­ist said, There is an ever increas­ing demand for highly skilled cyber secu­rity resources. When you add the demand for Cyber Soldiers of Fortune, resources are in short sup­ply. It’s no secret that there are fewer stu­dents major­ing in com­puter sci­ence today. The Computing Research Association’s sta­tis­tics show that the num­ber of fresh­man who list com­puter sci­ence as a prob­a­ble major has fallen by 70 per­cent since 2000.

New national data shows that what has been a trau­matic decade for com­puter sci­ence depart­ments is finally start­ing to turn around. For the first time since 2000, the num­ber of newly declared under­grad­u­ate majors at doctoral-​​granting com­puter sci­ence depart­ments is now on the increase.

As the cyber war­fare threat envi­ron­ment con­tin­ues to evolve new oppor­tu­ni­ties will be cre­ated. This threat is in its infancy and will con­tinue to grow for the fore­see­able future. While Cyber Soldiers of Fortune are now a new entity, they will soon become old news and com­mon place. In the past two months I have received emails and phone mes­sages ask­ing if I would be inter­ested in joining/​leading a cyber mili­tia. This is a very dan­ger­ous propo­si­tion. It is dif­fi­cult to deter­mine who really is in con­trols of these orga­ni­za­tions and how the cyber capa­bil­i­ties of the mili­tia would be used. I would urge any of our read­ers on here to resist the temp­ta­tion to join or sup­port such groups.

– Kevin Coleman

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  1. reshtet says:
    September 8, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    Well here is a guilty party:“IANA spe­cial ip’s” try­ing to hack my per­sonal id…They use mis­lead­ing Applications detection…And they are based in S.D. CA…I bet it’s specwar…

    Reply
  2. Kevin says:
    September 8, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    I have seen the same thing in my secu­rity logs. I think either they don’t know what they are doing or their server has been compromised.

    Reply
  3. reshtet says:
    September 8, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    Here’s the attack­ing pc 1138240447319 (192.168.1.102,2010)…And how is it pos­si­ble to
    get an account in two dif­fer­ent places @ mil​i​tary​.com with­out all the info require­ments and
    know what ser­vice I was in? It can’t!Someone is hack­ing everything,from the above pc…In my searches I found,that it’s con­nected to 1’000’s
    of servers…Must be agency/military…that 596
    keeps repeating…

    Reply
  4. Brian says:
    September 8, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    LOL @ other com­menter… You might want to watch for attacks com­ing from 127.0.0.1 as well. That one is noto­ri­ous for try­ing to hack into people’s com­put­ers!
    The chart to the right tracks cyber threat aware­ness.
    Huh? To MY right is noth­ing. To my left is an image of a com­puter with a skull and cross-​​bones on the screen.
    No chart.

    Reply
  5. CyberGhetto says:
    September 8, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    Back in the 90s peo­ple were trolling the IRC look­ing for anar­chist hack­ers. They had visions of hijack­ing the GOPHER pro­to­col or some­thing like that. I don’t know, I just did web design.
    After the dot-​​com crash, it became appar­ent to me that “net neu­tral­ity” was the prob­lem. It still is. The inter­net is the eas­i­est place for dis­hon­est peo­ple to hide, from spam­mers and hack­ers to peo­ple down­load­ing media ille­gally. Yet, “net neu­tral­ity” is an avoided topic since the alter­na­tive seems to con­tra­dict free speech. When neu­tral­ity of this cal­iber is an option, though, it opens up a Pandora’s box of con­cern. Maybe I’m way off here, but I see a direct correlation.

    Reply
  6. reshtet says:
    September 8, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    I’m deal­ing with Local Host on my mail!And mil​i​tary​.com has its mail doing weird things also,
    and they have never believed my com­plaints and said,I need meds…They ban me for any­thing and every­thing that a loser writes…The default set­ting @ the help and feed­back is def­i­nitely hacked but they deny it.A Veri Seal page proves how many hacks there are on mil​i​tary​.com…

    Reply
  7. reshtet says:
    September 8, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    The inro­duc­tion of server abil­i­ties is a true curse
    to the peo­ple and the capitol!Therefore they don’t
    care about it,otherwise they would only allow HTML
    and not “com­pi­l­able pro­grams.” That would help “Spy ops” beyond human disbelief..Algorthms,
    are not actu­ally under­stand by so called experts!

    Reply
  8. Lonnie Holcomb says:
    September 9, 2008 at 9:38 am

    ya the 192.168.X.X address is your router!
    your attack is an A.D. (acci­den­tal dis­charge) ya know, a self inflicted attack!

    Reply
  9. reshtet says:
    September 9, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    HAHA!MAn,I new my dad and brother were doing weird
    crap,and they always act sus­pi­cous when I search ips etc… Therefore they have a wrk pc using up
    space with military.com…I have proof of it…
    Thanks for the info…

    Reply
  10. reshtet says:
    September 9, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    Hey!What other room and your refer­ing to me as a
    par­ent also??? That is say­ing to me,that you are
    read­ing into this,and think­ing you know who I am!
    And the yel­low fill color in the textbox dis­ap­peard finally…And that fill color is from
    another site…Its you then…Parallel…

    Reply
  11. reshtet says:
    September 9, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    I see the whole prob­lem now!It’s a par­al­lel pro­gram­ming thing,and uses the Posix thread stan­dard to deceive the opti­cal parts of web…
    Example:pthread_cond_signal():signal a con­di­tion.
    That hap­pens on all the places I go,and with it
    is the thread “wait on a con­di­tion.” Or par­al­lel
    memory…You don’t know math do you???

    Reply
  12. reshtet says:
    September 9, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    The image on the mon­i­tor is the new“SEAL TEAM PATCH.“
    It fits their char­ac­ter­is­tics perfectly…ANd the peo­ple who lit­er­ally
    guard all their books etc…

    Reply
  13. reshtet says:
    September 9, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    The cloak­ing is show­ing itself in ids on the
    SWCC/​EOD/​SEAL forum again!They always reverse their phony posts into new mem­ber­ships, but with
    the same id,name, and unit…Therefore it’s a par­al­lel filter,memory thread machine…ANd the same exact post top­ics and posts appear @navyseals.com…

    Reply
  14. izu says:
    September 10, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    “Private orga­ni­za­tions and for that mat­ter indi­vid­u­als that pro­vide military-​​style secu­rity have been in exis­tence for thou­sands of years. Their ori­gins can be traced back to the medieval times.“
    How can they have been around for thou­sands of years if they orig­i­nated in medieval times?

    Reply
  15. reshtet says:
    September 10, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    I have all the info I need now!
    It’s a dum­mie using localhost/​PHP and is fil­ter­ing
    my search abil­ity and copies it and slan­ders my name…Quite ele­men­tary in my info rangeof fools!
    Since it’s rep­e­ti­tious and you are using a Doctrine…

    Reply
  16. reshtet says:
    September 10, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    Dizu!Which time frame is closer to us,thousands of
    years or Medievil??? Of course the later…It’s a
    basic math equa­tion also…Obviously they aren’t
    telling truths about ori­gins either…Look at Egypt for an exam­ple and Philistia who left from
    Egytp.…It isn’t a pagan thing,to know it either.

    Reply
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