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Catch-up

By Srijith on January 26, 2011 in China, Cyberwar, Links

This blog has been silent for some time but that if all goes well, that will change from now. In order to get to up to date with the happenings on the “cyberwar” front, here are couple of interesting articles that have been published in the last couple of months:

NYT: “Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay” – A confusing title for sure but the content is extremely interesting as it claims that Stuxnet was a US-Israel operation that was extensively tested in an Israeli complex.
CNet: “RIM to filter Indonesia Web traffic” – in order to block pornography. It just doesn’t seem to be good time for RIM!
Guardian: “WikiLeaks: Anonymous hierarchy emerges” – is this the beginning of sustained guerrilla warfare type attacks on cyberspace?
Reuters: “U.S. warns on China cyber, anti-satellite capability” – US has just begun to milk the “China-phobia” feeling.
Bloomberg: “Officials mark start of work on Utah cyber center” – and so the militarization of cyberspace continues.

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Warning shots will only be fired so many times

By Srijith on November 18, 2010 in China, US

The US-China Economics and Security Review Commission has just recently submitted its 2010 report to the US Congress (PDF) and the chapter on “China and the Internet” is a particularly interesting read. It touches on various topics including

Use of Internet as a ‘‘propaganda and ideological work’’ as well as to ‘‘guide public opinion’’
Regulations that provide unfair advantage to home-grown technology companies
Standoff between Google and China vis-vis Operation “Aurora”
Attack on Indian government
Internet traffic manipulation

While I hate fear mongering with a vengeance, it would be stupid to ignore the warning signs emanating from China. Information warfare has been absorbed into Chinese military thinking and philosophy and we will be sitting ducks if we do not take evasive, defensive and offensive actions.

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Week 30 Links

By Srijith on July 30, 2010 in Links

This is the start of a new weekly post highlighting some of the news and analysis in the area of cyber security that has caught our attention. Week 30 links follow:

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