What is Cyber-Warfare?
Cyber-warfare is the use of computers and information technology to perform acts of war on governments or other large organizations. The initiator of cyber-warfare can be an individual, an organization, or another government. There are many different kinds of cyber-warfare, from specialized hacking jobs on a specific server to generally-targeted denial of service attacks. The ultimate in cyber-warfare is an attack that completely removes the ability for all of the members of an organization or government to connect to the Internet; in the modern information-centric society, this can lead to millions or billions of dollars of lost productivity, or worse.
Who are we?
We are Zener Bayudan, Brandon Pitman, John Oleynik, and —-. We created this wiki for a project in CS4235 at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Types of attacks
There are many different kinds of cyber-warfare attacks. Check out the pages below to read more information about each type of cyber-warfare attack.
- Vandalism
- Propaganda
- Denial of Service
- Network Attacks Against Infrastructure
- Non-Network Attacks Against Infrastructure
Cyber-warfare in the News
Cyber-warfare has been in the news recently. Governments have been hit by it, and governments are preparing for it. The U.S. and China have been toeing the line of cyber-warfare in what could become an "Information Cold War." Check out the pages below to read more information about recent cyber-warfare occurrences in the news.
- Vandalism During Election
- Power Grid Service Attacks
- Chinese zombies in the U.S.
- China attacks U.S. GPS system
- Cyber Storm II
- Estonian hacker attacks his own country
External Resources
Check out these pages for more information on cyber-warfare.
Dave Dittrich's Cyberwarfare page
Dave Dittrich is a Senior Security Engineer and researcher the Univeristy of Washington's Information School. He has collected a very large collection of web links to information about cyberwarfare. This includes information about cyber terrorism, testimony and reports to the U.S. Congress, legal issues, and various media stories related to cyberwarfare.
Danger Room - Wired Blogs & Threat Level - Wired Blogs
Neither of these blogs specifically focuses on cyberwarfare, but both are somewhat related and occasionally have cyberwarfare-related posts. Danger Room focuses on national security while Threat Level focuses on privacy, security, crime and politics online.
Dancho Danchev's Blog
Written by Dancho Danchev, an independent security consultant, this blog "covers trends and fads, tactics and strategies, intersecting with third-party research, speculations and real-time CYBERINT assessments".
