By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyber Warfare Correspondent Over the weekend information leaked out about a DoD strategy document due to be released in June. The information leaked from this document makes the Pentagon’s position clear – Cyber Attacks May Be Considered an Act of War! The information shocked outsiders as is clearly evident by the […]
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By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare Correspondent Few people would dispute the dramatic change we have experienced in the global threat environment. Arguably, the most significant change is in the area of digital conflict. Confusion, spirited disagreement and widely varying definitions for areas within the digital conflict domain have reached a new level. This […]
There is a substantial amount of controversy resulting from last week’s intelligence testimony and a lot of it has to do with conflicts in cyber space. Arguably the following were the top three areas of greatest concern that was discussed during the hearing. James Clapper, DNI Chief, warned that the cyber warfare facing the U.S. […]
While there’s been renewed interest in focusing the U.S. military on countering high-end 21st Century threats such as the advanced area denial weapons being developed by China, don’t expect all of the relatively low-tech yet incredibly useful weapons of the last few wars to go away as soon as fighting dies down in Afghanistan. Northrop […]
Here’s an explicit example of the Egyptian government using social networking tech to help organize the violent, pro-government counter demonstrations that broke out in Cairo this week; it’s a sample of one of the mass-text messages the Mubarak government apparently ordered U.K.-based cellphone carrier Vodafone and a local cell provider to send to Egyptian citizens. […]
