Cyber attack

In my first post on this subject, I quoted a news story in fedscoop saying that

The development of “loud” offensive cyber tools, [that could be definitively traced to the United States and thus] able to possibly deter future intrusions, represent a “different paradigm shift” from what the agency has used to in the past.

NATO recently announced that it will regard cyber as a domain of conflict, joining land, sea, and air as other domains in which conflict may occur. At a press conference on June 14, 2016, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO “will recognize cyberspace as an operational domain, just like air, sea and land.  Cyber defence is part of collective defence.  Most crises and conflicts today have a cyber dimension, so treating cyber as an operational domain would enable us to better protect our mi

Taking note of Cyberwar: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts, a new book on conceptualizing cyber attacks and cyberwar, and their relation to theories of war and the ethics of war.

This week on the Lawfare Podcast, Helen Mohrmann, the Chief Information Officer at the Brookings Institution, discusses the difficulties of securing a large, public-facing organization from an array of cyber-attacks.