Inside Cyber Warfare

Read for Network Imperialism and personal love of literature. In the University Library mind you, at great personal risk and difficulty.

Bibliographic Deets

 * Carr, Jeffrey 2009. Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld. O'Reilly Media.

Short History of Cyber War, Attacks & Events

 * CHINA
 * 2001 :: 80,000 Hackers attack U.S. after Jet Collision -> NY TIMES calls it "World Wide Web War I"
 * ISRAEL
 * 2008 :: Palestine vs. Israeli Hackers
 * RUSSIA
 * Russia-Georgia war (2008) coordinated hacking with miliary engagement (stopgeorgia.ru)
 * IRAN
 * Dark side of Twitter -> Tweets used to desseminate automated DDoS attacks
 * KOREA
 * 4th of July 2009 attacks from North Korea towards White House and other U.S. sites
 * Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) urges U.S. cyber attack to send NK "strong signal" (4)

Legal Ideas for Regulation

 * Like Outer Space (highly unregulated but characterized by cooperation)
 * Or Antartica (apportioning) (33)

Other Vulnerabilities

 * According to recent study -> 60 % of U.S. Armed Services members post enough infor to Social Network Sites to "make themselves vulnerable to adversary targeting" (93)

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