Cyberwarfare

U.S. Reportedly Debated Cyberwarfare Against Libya

The New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER | Posted 12.17.2011

Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of...

CIA Chief Warns Of 'Next Pearl Harbor'

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.13.2011

Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee for a confirmation hearing for his appointment as the secretary of defense, Leon Panetta warned that the U.S. could face cyberwarfare in battles to come.

Anonymous Declares Cyberwar Against 'the System'

Timothy Karr | Posted 08.03.2011

Timothy Karr

A new YouTube manifesto from someone claiming to speak for Anonymous calls on everyone in the online world to join a revolt against governments and corporations that are intent upon stifling free speech online.

Did U.S. Play A Role In Stuxnet Attack?

Posted 07.28.2011

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn created a stir when he dodged a reporter's questions about whether the U.S. was involved in the Stuxnet cyb...

Inside The Secret Project To Sabotage Iran's Nuclear Program

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Behind Dimona's barbed wire, the experts say, Israel has spun nuclear centrifuges virtually identical to Iran's at Natanz, where Iranian scientists ar...

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire: Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century by 2025

Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 05.25.2011

Alfred W. McCoy

Instead of the bloodshed that marked the end of so many past empires, this 21st-century imperial collapse could come relatively quietly through the invisible tendrils of economic collapse or cyberwarfare.

What If Nuclear Terrorism Were Just a Mouse Click Away?

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Russ Wellen

With the end of the Cold War, nuclear terrorism has displaced an attack by the Soviet Union as the prime nuclear fear. And that's not only reviving the specter of a traditional nuclear attack, but combining it with contemporary fears.

Cyberwarfare Works on Same Premises as Nuclear War

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Russ Wellen

The computer worm Stuxnet didn't exactly bore into the computers of workers in Iran's nuclear program. In fact, whoever unleashed it -- Israel or another state -- sprayed it indiscriminately like machine gun fire.

Cyber War or Cyber Jaw

James D. Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011

James D. Zirin

Are we really in a "Cyber War?" Are unidentified enemies around the world scheming to bring down Western civilization with a single keystroke? Or is the whole thing overblown paranoia?

U.S. Air Force To Start Schooling Recruits In Cyberwarfare

AP | DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. � The Air Force will train all new recruits in the basics of cyberwarfare and add more advanced schooling for others to help...

Military Companies Vying For Billions Of Dollars In Cyberwarfare Defense Contracts

New York Times | CHRISTOPHER DREW and JOHN MARKOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

The government's urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contract...

Pentagon Plans New Military Command To Wage War In Cyberspace

New York Times | DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON �" The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations b...

Internet Of The Future: Pentagon Plans Cyberweapons Attacks

New York Times | DAVID E. SANGER, JOHN MARKOFF and THOM SHANKER | Posted 05.25.2011

When American forces in Iraq wanted to lure members of Al Qaeda into a trap, they hacked into one of the group's computers and altered information tha...