L'Iran mène un exercice de guerre informatique lors de manoeuvres navales | La-Croix.com

L'Iran mène un exercice de guerre informatique lors de manoeuvres navales | La-Croix.com

Publications - Sécurité & Stratégie n°11

Le nouveau numéro de la revue Sécurité & Stratégie (n°11, décembre 2012 - février 2013) est dédié au thème "Les cyber-menaces: mythe ou réalité?"

J'y publie un article intitulé "Le cyber-guerrier: nouvelle figure combattante au service de la cyber-défense" (pp. 39-47).

Au sommaire, vous retrouverez également:

- Sécurité: 15 ans d'échec. J. Brossard

- Don't Worry, we are from the Internet" - Anonymous. Fr. Bardeau, N. Danet 

- Rebond. N. Ruff 

- Nouvelles technologies et crime désorganisé: incursion au coeur d'un réseau de pirates informatiques. Benoit Dupont (CICC Montréal)

- Cybercriminalité et expertise: enjeux et défis. F. Guarnieri, E. Przyswa

- Le défi des nouveaux usages numériques: la sécurité des entreprises à la peine. B. Gruselle.

- La cybersécurité des systèmes industriels et tertiaires. S. Meynet

- Cyber-résilience, risques et dépendances: pour une nouvelle approche de la cyber-sécurité. S. Ghernaouti, Ch. Aghroum

- La cyber-sécurité en entreprise: se protéger juridiquement et se former. M. Quéméner, A. Souvira.

Article - New weapons for cyber warfare. The CHAMP project

"New weapons for cyber warfare. The CHAMP Project". Article by Pierluigi Paganini. Infosec website. December 6, 2012.

The attacks against the infrastructure of cyberespace (for instance using EMP bombs) may be considered as part of cyber warfare or information warfare. But others may consider that this is not cyberwar, just electronic warfare. Let's read the interesting article of Pierluigi Paganini, who describes what the CHAMP project is and what the impact on cyberwarfare scenario might be.

News - Syria's Internet outage: interpretations

Land Destroyer website proposes its analysis of the means and motivations that might explain the Syria's Internet outage. Syria's Internet outage & the future of information warfare. December 1, 2012.

News - Head of DHS never uses emails...

Head of Homeland Security doesn't use email at all. Salman Latif, nov.30, 2012, TheTechJournal.com. "If her own trust is that shaky towards the security of data sent online, how can she assure businesses and common users that her department can thwart any possible cyber attacks?"

News - Internet blackout in Syria

Is Syria suffering an Internet blackout? Today, november 29, 2012, Syria has disappeared from the wider Internet. Syria's information minister said "terrorists" were the cause of the Internet blackout, not the state. Most of the phone lines that run through the major Syrian exchange are also down.

News - A virtual cybercity to train government hackers

The Pentagon is developping a virtual town (CyberCity) to train its cyberwarriors. This virtual city will have more than 15000 inhabitants. The Pentagon is training his soldiers for cyberattacks.

News - US Navy new strategy documents

Three important documents on information dominance have been signed this week at the US Army:

- the NAVY STRATEGY FOR ACHIEVING INFORMATION DOMINANCE 2013-2017;

- NAVY CYBER POWER 2020;

- NAVY INFORMATION DOMINANCE CORPS HUMAN CAPITAL STRATEGY 2012-2017.

News - Scoop.it eConflicts

My new Scoop.it on cyber issues is opened:  http://www.scoop.it/t/econflicts/

News - South Carolina (USA): breach of personal data

Millions of South Carolina residents' data stolen: 1.9 million Social Security numbers, 3.8 million tax returns and bank account details for 3.3 million people across the state. This is not really new, actually! All around the world sensitive data are stolen, databases hacked... As usual, the incident has been discovered several weeks after the incident took place: "the data was then posted online - and only discovered by the Secret Service nearly two months later" !!!

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News - US, France, Flame, cyberattacks...

- A French news magazine has accused the U.S. of using a spy software (Flame?) to hack into office of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.   Nov.22, 2012. Arutz Sheva, Financial Times

 

News - Leçon inaugurale chaire cybersécurité et cyberdéfense

La leçon inaugurale de la chaire Cybersécurité/Cyberdéfense des Ecoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan / Sogeti / Thalès a été donnée le mardi 13 novembre 2012 à l'Ecole militaire de Paris.

Le contenu de la leçon disponible ici.

Compte-rendu de la leçon, rédigé par Mr. Gérard Péliks, Président de l'Atelier Sécurité de Forum ATENA.

Communiqués de presse sur les sites suivants:
- EasyBourse
- BFMTV
- Euroinvestor
- Challenges
- Ministère de la Défense
- SecuObs
- Combourse
- Le Point

Indonesia’s cyber defense strategy and its challenges | The Jakarta Post

Indonesia’s cyber defense strategy and its challenges | The Jakarta Post

News - Chaire Cyberdéfense - Leçon inaugurale

13 novembre 2012. Leçon inaugurale de la Chaire Cybersécurité et Cyberdéfense (Saint-Cyr/Sogeti/Thalès). Amphithéâtre de Bourcet , Ecole Militaire, Paris. 9h30 - 12h. Programme 

Contact presse: Commandant Stéphane Simon (02 92 70 720 13 - 06 76 72 34 80) 

stephane.simon@st-cyr.terre-net.defense.gouv.fr  

News - NATO CDX Cyber Coalition 12

NATO cyber defense exercise will run between 12 and 16 november 2012.

Objective: testing the effectiveness of collaborative cyber defence procedures and capabilities.

Participants: allies + Austria, Finland and Sweden (as players) + Australia, Ireland and Switzerland and EU cyber defence staff (as observers)

News - Nordic Governments and cyber defence policies

Nordic governments have identified cyber defense as a priority and have decided to increase their investments in this domain :

- national military cyber defense centers (CDC) will be dedicated to cyberdefense. Norway has allocated $500 million to the creation of its CDC over the next five years. Denmark has allocated a $20 million annual budget for its CDC, rising to $30 million in 2017

- private sector (firms developing cyber security solutions) will work closely with government

- in the following months will be set up a connecting communications’ network linking to national cyber defense center and regulatory organizations (Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland)

Source: Cyber Defense Takes Center Stage in Nordic Cooperation

Book - #CyberDoc: No Borders, No Boundaries

A book soon to be published, from Tim Sample, called “#CyberDoc: No Borders, No Boundaries”

News - Cyber rules of engagement still unfinished

Cyber rules of engagement should be published soon by US DoD... but we are still waiting for them. Article by Amber Corrin, FCW, November 1st, 2012.  

News - Creation of a new cyber security research centre in Bristol

A center to combat cyber attacks has been launched on october 31st 2012 in Bristol. One of the objectives is to make UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online (!)

News - Minister of communications denies Iran's complicity in cyber attacks

Reza Taqipour, Minister of Communication and Information technology, denied Iran's complicity in cyber attacks that recently targeted western banks (FARS News Agency. October 31, 2012).

News - Cyber attacks rose by 81% according to Symantec

According to Symantec, cyber attacks rose by 81% between 2010 and 2011 (Bankole Orimisan, The Guardian, October 31, 2012)

News - US Army and cyber training

The US Army includes cyber operations into its traditional training exercises. Army adds cyber war to combat training, october 29, 2012.

Events - Cyber Defence & Network Security 2013

Cyber Defence & Network Security 2013. London, 28-31 January 2013. More information.

Events - Cyber Defense Initiative Conference 2013

CDIC 2013. The Pirates in the Cyberspace. 27-28 February 2013. Bangkok Convention Center, Centara Grand at Central World.

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News - Iranian cyber strategy

The new iranian cyberdefense strategy will be published next october 29, 2012 (Le nouveau document stratégique de la cyber-défense iranien sera dévoilé). Let's mention that the strategy will focus on "passive" cyber-defense (to counter cyber-attacks). The same day, Iran will implement national cyber-defense exercises to test cyber-infrastructures.

Last July, Ahmad Vahidi, Minister of Defense, declared that cyber-defense is among the top priorities of his ministry (a cyber command has been set up in 2012).

Publicaciones - Ciberguerra

"Ciberguerra" (Daniel Ventre), p. 31-46, en "Seguridad global y potencias emergentes en un mundo multipolar", actas del XIX Curso Internacional de Defensa (26-30 de septiembre de 2011. Jaca, España). Ministerio de Defensa, Academia General Militar, Universidad de Zaragoza. Fecha de edicion: septiembre de 2012.   

News - Call It Chimerica: The U.S. and China Grow Ever Closer (Bloomberg)

Call it Chimerica: The U.S. and China Grow Ever Closer. Interesting paper by Jennifer Daniel and Caroline Winter. (Bloomber BusinessWeek. October 11, 2011). The most interesting probably is the proposed illustration, that compares both US and Chinese mutual dependance on business.

General question (that is not developed in the article): what is the impact of cyberespionage / cybercrime / cyberattacks / cybersecurity measures / cyberdefense policies, between close economic partners?

News - France joins Cyber Defense Center

The Tallinn-based NATO Cyber Defense Center has a new full partner: France.

News - Canada: ready to combat cyber attacks ?

Bill Curry: "Serious flaws in Ottawa's Defence against cyber attacks: auditor general", October 23, 2012.

News - Conference "Cyberthreats, Cyberdefense, Cyberwar" - Brussels

Conference "Cyberthreats, Cyberdefense, Cyberwar" - Ecole Royale Militaire - Brussels - November 19, 2012. Journée d'études du Belgian Intelligence Studies Centre (BISC) et du Centre d'études de droit militaire et de droit de la guerre.

News - Statistics: 1000 cyberattacks / hour...

Tom Whitehead, Britain is target of up to 1000 cyber attacks every hour, 22 octobre 2012, The Telegraph:

- "Cyber crime is estimated to cost the UK about £27 billion annually"

- "it is possible to buy off-the-shelf malicious software, such as that designed to steal bank details from people’s computers, for as little as £3,000"

- "Britain is being targeted by up to 1,000 cyber attacks every hour"

But the most interesting point in the article concerns the opinion of the Intelligence and Security Committee, that believes "Britain should declare cyber war on states and criminals who target the country by using aggressive retaliatory strikes to destroy their own operations".

The escalation of violence is a real risk too!

News - Cybersecurity Conference - Washington

Washington. October 22-23, 2012. Cybersecurity Conference.