Tag: CYBERWAR

For our second annual spotlight on cyber-security, Switched turned to a renowned expert in the field: Eugene H. Spafford, Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. Among his many professional associations and corporate and governmental advisory roles, Spafford is the Executive Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), which supports ...

U.S. security officials are asking that the rhetoric surrounding the potential for "cyber-war" be tempered in favor of a rational discussion on how to distinguish an actual cyber-war between nations from cyber-attacks that use war-like tactics. It's a blurry line, but White House cyber-security czar Howard Schmidt, who spoke at the RSA computer security conference in San Fransisco, said using the ...

After the numerous and troubling cyberattacks in Estonia in the summer of 2007, many wondered how we'd (the US, that is) fare if we were the subject of a similar attack. Researchers predicted the answer would be "not so well," and that prediction has been shown to be true after a recent "cyberwar" simulation in which American defenses were found to be "way behind where we need to be now." The ...