DOD Cyberspace Strategy is Too Narrow, Too Negative
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US Cyber Command becomes ‘fully operational’
NSA initiating program to detect cyberattacks
China Will Outsmart You China raising a cyber army?
Few people would dispute the huge challenge facing the newly formed Cyber Command. Perhaps the greatest of these challenges is in the area of coordination and collaboration. The addition of collaboration and coordination was evident in an organization chart for Cyber Command (marked FOUO) that has been circulating around by regular email (go figure) for [...]
Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory claim to have come up with a better tool for underwater acoustics. The new system uses laser light to create sound underwater from a distance. This technology could allow planes a much easier method of communicating with submarines without the need for a floating buoy. “Efficient conversion of light [...]
Air Force Establishes ‘Reduced’ Cyber-War Command
Military May Ban Twitter, Facebook as Security ‘Headaches’
StratCom wants DoD cyber units joined The Launching of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) Cyber command in urgent need of strategy Cyber Can Kill SAMs
Military projects are infamous for delays and cost overruns. Ditto for just about everything we put into space. Combine the two in the form of military space programs and you would presumably have a recipe for disaster. So it’s no surprise to learn that various military satellite programs have been plagued with problems, many of [...]
Gen. Kevin Chilton, the head of STRATCOM, just declared that the Law of Armed Conflict will apply to cyberwar, and that the US won’t rule out conventional (read: kinetic) responses to cyber-attacks. This means that we consider state-supported ‘hackers’ to be subject to the Geneva Conventions and Customary International Law, including the rules of proportionality [...]
[From We Don't Want To Run U.S. Cybersecurity Efforts, NSA Chief Says]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that cyber-spies have stolen several terabytes of data from the Joint Strike Fighter project [From Data stolen from US Joint Strike Fighter project]
This is kind of an interesting piece of news. If you remember, a lot of hoopla came out when US naval intelligence said that China only conducted 2 submarine patrols in 2006. There was a lot of discussion on what defined a patrol after that came out. As the article below states, Chinese submarine activity [...]
This story from Reuters-India tells us that Russian President Medvedev is talking up the possibility of leasing not only the ill-fated Nerpa but ‘several’ Project-971 submarines to India, for 10-year leases. Although there isn’t any press on India’s response to this – the Nerpa deal was on, off, on, etc. after the recent accident – [...]
The New York Times has published an editorial on funding the Pentagon in the coming years, along with specific recommendations on various big-name Pentagon procurement programs. I won’t repeat their recommendations here, since you can easily read them at the link above, but wanted to touch on a few of them. They recommend canceling the [...]
killmofasta notes an LA Times story on a severe and widespread attack on US military computers that may have originated in Russia. Turns out the military’s recent ban on flash drives was a precursor to this attack, which was significant enough that the President and the Defense Secretary were briefed on it. “The ‘malware’ strike, [...]
The rapid advancement of cyber attacks and the emergence of cyber warfare have caught government and military leaders around the world off guard. Decision making in time requiring defensive measures or military crisis is guided by doctrine and rules of engagement, but in the case of cyber attacks and cyber warfare they do not currently [...]
In the recent Zhuhai airshow (still ongoing), we’ve seen a plethora of UAV/UCAV models coming out. A lot of them seem to be concepts, abandoned projects, but there are a couple of brands standing out: CH-3 and WingLong. If you do search on Google News recently, you might be able to find the condensed version [...]
There are some fresh details on the Russian submarine accident TheCustodian covered last night. According to several news reports this morning, seventeen of the dead were employees of the Amur Ship-Building Enterprise while only three were sailors. The government released a list of 20 names this morning, all were Russian. While the name of the [...]
