Article - U.S. probes cyber attack on water system

Federal investigators confirmed that hackers remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois (in a rural community west of the state capital Springfield) two weeks ago (November 8). This could be a foreign attack (!?) But who is the culprit?

http://news.yahoo.com/u-investigates-cyber-attack-water-system-201719205.html

Article - Coast Guard Cyber Command

The article posted by Eric Beidel at the NDIA website provides interesting statistics concerning the U.S. cyberdefense approach. For instance, while the Army has some 21,000 personnel devoted to network defense, the Coast Guard has just 18 who must defend 45,000 workstations and users. He also explains that "During a typical month, emails carry about 25,000 viruses into the Coast Guard network. And attacks on computer systems have been increasing wholesale. In November 2009, a little more than 150 Coast Guard workstations showed infections, according to data from the service. By February 2010, viruses had been planted on more than 1,000 computers. That same month saw an additional 20,000 or so attacks that the service’s response system handled automatically".

Article - US and Poland joined CCD COE

US and Poland officially joined the CCD COE last thursday. http://news.err.ee/politics/a1af1752-c667-42cf-813f-7d9327735b32

Resources - Cyberspace Security NATO LibGuide

The Cyberspace Security NATO LibGuide is intended to provide a few starting points to assist you with your research on issues related to cyberspace security, in particular, in the NATO context.

NATO LibGuides are web-based research guides bringing you the latest information selected by the NATO Multimedia Library staff (articles, news, reports, videos, websites, etc.) on some specific topics.

The eConflicts blog is referenced on Nato LibGuide:  http://natolibguides.info/content.php?pid=133303&sid=1258348

Conference - The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference

Call for Contributions/Abstracts

Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century information Society.  Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference

Uppsala University. May 2nd-4th, 2012.

http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/
http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/CfA.pdf

A unique event for networking, presentation of critical ideas, critical  engagement, and featuring leading critical scholars in the area of Critical Internet Studies and Critical Studies of Media & Society.

Reportage - L'art de la cyberguerre

Voir le reportage "L'art de la cyberguerre", sur le site LaTeleLibre.fr  http://latelelibre.fr/reportages/lart-de-la-cyberguerre/  (publié le 6 novembre 2011). Reportage réalisé à l'occasion des Assises de la sécurité informatique (Monaco. 5-8 Octobre 2011)

Article - The Arab Spring Events from an IW Perspective

Brett Van Noekerk, Kiru Pillay and Manoj Maharaj (University of KwaZulu-Natal - South Africa) have published a paper titlled "Analyzing the Role of ICTs in the Tunisian and Egyptian Unrest from an Information Warfare Perspective" (International Journal of Communication 5 (2011), 1406-1416) 

In January 2011, the Tunisian government stepped down after weeks of protests; this was followed by unrest and protests in Egypt against the Egyptian government, leading also to the resignation of its president. Demonstrations in both countries were facilitated in some part by the online social media and related information and communications technologies that impacted the flow of information. The manner in which the information and communication technologies were employed suggests that the uprisings were a form of social information warfare. To provide an alternative understanding of the role of technology and information in the events that led to the resignations of the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents, these uprisings are analyzed using the Information Warfare Lifecycle Model.