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Israeli secret service and army websites disrupted for several hours after video threat from Anonymous hacker group

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/07/israel-anonymous-cyber-attack-websites

The book argues that computer security has evolved from a technical discipline to a strategic
concept. The world’s growing dependence on a powerful but vulnerable Internet – combined
with the disruptive capabilities of cyber attackers – now threatens national and international
security.

Strategic challenges require strategic solutions. The author examines four nation-state approaches to cyber attack mitigation:
• Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• Sun Tzu’s Art of War
• Cyber attack deterrence
• Cyber arms control

The four threat mitigation strategies fall into several categories. IPv6 is a technical solution.
Art of War is military. The third and fourth strategies are hybrid: deterrence is a mix of military and political considerations; arms control is a political/technical approach.

About the Author
Kenneth Geers, PhD, CISSP, is the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Cyber Subject Matter Expert. He was the first U.S. Representative to the NATO CCD COE in Tallinn, Estonia.

Download The Book :

http://www.ccdcoe.org/publications/books/Strategic_Cyber_Security_K_Geers.PDF

A Lecture about the book :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB1y7c4ooyc

Britain has backed away from confronting China over cyber attacks preferring instead to emphasise the threats and opportunities it said all countries faced through the rapid growth of cyberspace.

William Hague, the foreign secretary, said on Wednesday that theLondon Cyberspace Conference he hosted was not “judgmental” and that the source of cyber attacks was “very difficult to verify”.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/02/hague-backs-off-criticism-china-cyber

Computer security researchers are warning that a new version of the sophisticated cyberweapon that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program could be the precursor to a new wave of cyberattacks.

The new weapon, dubbed Duqu, appears to use portions of the original source code from the Stuxnet worm that attacked computers at the Iranian nuclear plant at Natanz in 2009 and 2010.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/24/new-cyberweapon-threatens-vital-infastructure/?page=all#pagebreak