Recent press accounts illustrate the mainstream media’s growing awareness of threats to the electric power grid and the need to counter them. These threats extend from physical attacks, to cyber attacks, to natural and manmade electromagnetic pulse … [Read more...] about Connect the Dots . . . Please!
Cyber
Initiatives to Limit EMP Threat
The United States' electric power grid is more vulnerable today to Electro Magnetic Pulse effects, either by a sun-burst or a high altitude nuclear explosion, than it was five decades ago. Indeed, on December 23, 2013, the Defense Threat Reduction … [Read more...] about Initiatives to Limit EMP Threat
Hurtling Downhill
If recent events are any indication, the pace of U.S. withdrawal from the world and the extent of our fecklessness (and the West's generally) in the face of threats coming from Islamist terrorism, Russia, China, and Iran promises to pick up in 2014. … [Read more...] about Hurtling Downhill
Latest Global Cyber Review
Israel's Institute for National Security Studies reported on January 1st: Israel Iranian hackers claim to have extracted personal details of top Israelis army officers An Iranian linked hacker claimed to infiltrate the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) … [Read more...] about Latest Global Cyber Review
The Air of Unreality in NSA Reform
The president's panel found no official malfeasance but recommends overhauling surveillance programs anyway. Grope through the Styrofoam pellets of rhetoric that surround the 46 recommendations in the report issued last week by the president's … [Read more...] about The Air of Unreality in NSA Reform
In the Cyber Domain, the Best Defense is Defense
"Very few decision-makers understand this field in depth.... While it is clear to most in the senior political echelon and the military top ranks what the S-300 or Kalashnikov is, they have no clue about Zeus or Conficker." (Highly infectious … [Read more...] about In the Cyber Domain, the Best Defense is Defense
Grid Ex II: An Exercise in Wishful Thinking
Like leaving a child with access to a supply of candy without a threat of disciplinary measures, the powers that be are permitting the nation’s electric power companies to ignore existential threats to the American people while conducting interesting … [Read more...] about Grid Ex II: An Exercise in Wishful Thinking
Cyber Goobletygook
To fully comprehend the vulnerability of the United States' infrastructure, business and the public to cyber threats, read the October 24 audit report from the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, "DHS' Efforts to Coordinate the … [Read more...] about Cyber Goobletygook
Next-Generation Space & Cyber War
On September 30, the American Center for Democracy staged a roundtablediscussion on "Energy, Space & Cyber Insecurity - Current and Future Threats." We bring you several thought-provoking "What If ...? Scenarios by William B. Scott, a … [Read more...] about Next-Generation Space & Cyber War
Backdoor Plots: The Darknet as a Field for Terrorism
On Friday, August 2, 2013, the US State Department published a travel warning, and in an unprecedented step, closed over twenty embassies. As expected, following the American warning other Western countries such as Great Britain, France, and Germany … [Read more...] about Backdoor Plots: The Darknet as a Field for Terrorism