Donald Trump intends to extend by one year the Executive Order 13694

"President Donald Trump is going to extend by one year the Executive Order 13694", post du blog SecurityAffairs, March 30, 2017

Interpol - "Cybercriminalité"

Interpol - "Cybercriminalité" - 2017 - Brochure de 12 pages. 

Dans ce document Interpol distingue deux catégories de criminalité liées aux TIC: la cybercriminalité et la criminalité facilitée par Internet. 

On peut y lire également que "jusqu’à présent, la cybercriminalité était principalement le fait d’individus ou de petits groupes. Aujourd’hui, INTERPOL constate l’apparition de réseaux de cybercriminalité d’une grande complexité qui réunissent, en temps réel, des individus de tous pays pour perpétrer des infractions d’une ampleur sans précédent."  Vraiment? Le cybercrime n'est-il pas organisé en gros réseaux d'assez longue date? Ne parlait-on pas du cybercrime organisé russe et chinois il y a dix ans déjà? Les hackers n'ont-ils pas une tradition de coopération internationale depuis bien des années?  

Sajda Qureshi "The forgotten awaken: ICT’s evolving role in the roots of mass discontent"

Sajda Qureshi, "The forgotten awaken: ICT’s evolving role in the roots of mass discontent", Information Technology for Development, 2017, Vol.23, n°1, pp.1-17. Full text...

About "key terrain" in cyberspace

Applegate, Scott Douglas, Christopher L. Carpenter, and David C. West. “Searching for Digital Hilltops: A Doctrinal Approach to Identifying Key Terrain in Cyberspace.” Joint Force Quarterly, no. 84 (1st Quarter 2017): 18-23. 

The proposed definition of "key terrain'" is : "Any locality, or area, the seizure or retention of which affords a marked advantage to either combatant". According to the author of this article, the "key terrain" is different from the notion of "critical asset", defined as "a spacific entity that is of such extraordinary importance that its incapacitation or destruction would have a very serious, debilitating effect on the ability of a nation to continue to function effectively". 

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Thomas Rid, Hearing on Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns"

Thomas Rid, Hearing on "Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns", US Senate, March 30th, 2017.

Prepared Statement of GEN (Ret) Keith B. Alexander on Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns

Opening speach.

Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns

Hearing: "Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns", US Senate, March 30th, 2017. 

Witnesses:

Panel I

Eugene Rumer, Director of Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as the National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia from 2010-2014.

Roy Godson, Professor of Government Emeritus at Georgetown University. From 1993-2015, he also served as President of the National Strategy Information Center.

Clint Watts, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute Program on National Security

*Other witnesses may be added

Panel II:

Kevin Mandia, Chief Executive Officer, FireEye

General (Ret.) Keith Alexander, Chief Executive Officer and President, IronNet Cybersecurity.  He previously served as Director of the National Security Agency and Chief of the Central Security Service.

Hearing on The Promises and Perils of Emerging Technologies for Cybersecurity

Hearing on The Promises and Perils of Emerging Technologies for Cybersecurity, EPIC Letter to US Senate, March 22, 2017