Microsoft President called for a digital ‘Geneva Convention’ for cyber warfare

Microsoft President Brad Smith gave a speech on Tuesday, in which he called on world leaders to form an international body that can establish the rules of digital warfare, akin to the rules put in place on traditional warfare by the Geneva Convention. In the speech, Smith said that recent hacking of elections in nation-states […]

Cyber Warfare: The “Team” in Red Team

As the name implies a Red Team is a team. In the world I live in – information and physical security – it is comprised by a variety of experts in different areas. Each member can perform the other’s duty but each one has a specialty and he or she is responsible for it. I […]

Russia ‘categorically rejects’ involvement in election hacking ‘witch hunt’

As has been the case since the Russian government was first accused of working to undermine American confidence in the U.S. presidential election process last October, the Kremlin continued to deny the latest round of allegations levied their way in last week’s intelligence briefings to both the current and incoming American presidents. “These are baseless […]

France thwarts 24,000 cyber-attacks against defence targets

France says it was the subject of 24,000 cyber-attacks against defence targets last year. Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said such attacks have been doubling every year and this year’s presidential elections could be targeted. He said it would “naive” to think that France was immune to the type of cyber-campaign that targeted the US election, […]

Behind Russia’s Cyber strategy

MOSCOW—Russia’s military laid out what is now seen as a blueprint for cyberwarfare with a 2013 article in a professional journal by Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s General Staff. Cyberspace, wrote Gen. Gerasimov, “opens wide asymmetrical possibilities for reducing the fighting potential of the enemy.” At the time, Russia’s military was absorbing the lessons […]

Top General says Army on cusp of monumental change – in decade or two.

We’ve entered an age of irregular warfare. We aren’t designed to fight this kind of war, yet. “The future of the Army may not involve divisions, corps, tanks or Bradley fighting vehicles, said the Army’s chief of staff. And that future isn’t 100 years away, or even 50. It’s only about 25 to 30 years away.” […]

Little green men; Russia’s Hybrid Warfare (Part 1)

One of the funnier things I heard in Iraq while advising their counter-terror services and special operations forces – was when their commander lamented how difficult COIN was in comparison to tanks. He noted you could just plop tanks across from one another, and they go at it.

Here’s how the US military is beating hackers at their own game

There’s an unseen world war that has been fought for years with no clear battle lines, few rules of engagement, and no end in sight. But it’s not a shooting war; not a war where combatants have been killed or wounded — at least not yet. It’s a war that pits nations against each other for dominance in cyberspace, and the […]

The German Army (Bundeswehr), to Reorganize Against Digital Threats

The real need to intercept online radicalism, EU plans to defend against Hybrid Warfare, the expansion of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and a global influx of Chinese espionage. Germany is opting to central its digital defense strategy, a methodology yet to be adopted by the United States. “Defence Minister Ursula von der […]