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Parsing Cyberwar – Part 1: The Battlefield
Summary of this post by Marcus Ranum: This series is based on a lecture I presented at RSA Conference in March 2012. In it, I will attempt to isolate some of the strategic elements of the “cyber”...
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Parsing Cyberwar – Part 2: The Logistical Train
Summary: In the previous part of this series, Marcus Ranum dissected the various subtypes of cyberwar into four specializations: cybercriminals, cyberspies, cyberterrorists, and cyberwarriors, so that...
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Parsing Cyberwar – Part 3: Synergies and Interference
Summary: As the cyberwar with Iran continues, we cheer to the news media’s reporting information and misinformation about this next frontier of war. All fodder for laughter at a future version of The...
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Parsing Cyberwar, part 3: Patch #1 – Lessons from the Gauss malware
Summary: In “Parsing Cyberwar – Part 3” Marcus Ranum discussed the logistical problems implicit in cyberweapons. We now have a case-study showing how quickly a new cyberweapon technology obsoletes...
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Parsing Cyberwar – Part 4: The Best Defense is A Good Defense
Summary: In this series, Marcus Ranum, walks us through the basics of cyberconflict, in its various forms: the nature of the battlefield, logistics, and dynamics. Today he looks at methods of defense....
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Cyberwar, the Power of Nightmares
Summary: Today’s post by Marcus Ranum discusses Adam Curtis’ brilliant BBC documentary series “The Power of Nightmares”. Cutris deconstructs the dynamic of government as protector against unknown...
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About American exceptionalism – what it really means
Summary: As an afterword to the campaign, Marcus Ranum takes a look at American Exceptionalism. While either false or daft as a doctrine, every presidential candidate had to profess allegiance to it....
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What they mean when the government says “We do not have ‘direct’ access to...
Summary: Even the best journalists and national security experts have difficulty with technical stories like the recent NSA revelations. Today Marcus Ranum (bio) cuts through the government’s lies,...
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Someone call Nixon’s plumbers. We need them again.
Summary: Marcus Ranum looks to our past — the government’s history of surveillance — to see the future which the government’s vast surveillance machinery makes possible, and perhaps will help bring...
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The Empire Strikes Back: The Demonization of Snowden Begins
Summary: Marcus Ranum, our in-house cyber-expert, looks at the next stage of the government’s defense against the revelations of NSA surveillance. Like the surveillance itself, they rely on...
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Cruel, deliberate, and unusually vicious. It’s us.
Summary: Today, one of the bloggers that I follow regularly linked to Charles Pierce’s angry opinion piece on the State Of Oklahoma’s execution of Clayton Lockett: Barbarians In Oklahoma. Because I’ve...
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In cyberspace you don’t see your attacker (that’s why we don’t know who...
Our hawks (aka warmongers), with their loyal journalist-enablers, have sparked a new round of hysteria about North Korea’s cyber-attack on Sony. Kim Zetter at Wired gives a good analysis in “North...
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How do we identify our attackers in cyberspace?
Summary: The news overflows with confident identification of cyberattackers. Today we have an account of hacking from a defender’s perspective, explaining the difficulty of attribution, written by our...
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The horror of cyberspace: we can’t easily identify our attackers.
Summary: In this last of Marcus Ranum’s 2 posts about identifying cyber-attackers, he explains why the usual methods we read in the news are quite fallible — no matter how confidently they’re stated....
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The Best Defense Is a Strong Defense. Never Fight a Land War in Cyberspace.
Summary: Why defense experts obsess about the relative advantages of different military hardware (e.g., the A-10 vs the F-35), the US has unleashed the tools of cyberwar on Iran. We can expect more in...
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