[iwar] Historical posting


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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen 
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What's good for the goose... To combat the expanding threat
of cyber-warfare, the Pentagon established a new center
Thursday to defend the United States from hackers and to
plot ways to attack an enemy's computer network. The U.S.
military also acknowledged for the first time that it used
a form of computer warfare against Yugoslavia as part of
NATO's air war last spring.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/030636.htm
http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/07/pentagon.cyberwar.ap/

Digital 'Pearl Harbor' on the way?
If you've been worrying that the worst case scenario for the millennium
computer bug is that your heating could fail for a couple of days or the
traffic lights go on the blink, brace yourself. Some military experts
fear that guerrillas or rogue states might launch assaults on communications
networks under cover of the millennium computer bug in what's been called
a possible "Digital Pearl Harbor".
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2350278,00.html

Pentagon Sets Up New Center for Waging Cyberwarfare
To combat the expanding threat of cyberwarfare, the Pentagon
established a new center on Thursday to defend the United States
from hackers and to plot ways to attack an enemy's computer network.
"This is an acknowledgment that in the world where communication is
critical, our ability to protect our systems and potentially get
inside an adversary's system and affect his decision is critical,"
said Gen. Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(New York Times story; free registration required)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/biztech/articles/08military.html

Cyberattacks Against U.S. Are A Matter Of Time
As cracking incidents accelerate, it is only a matter of time before
a malicious attack against the U.S. critical infrastructure does major
damage, the nation's top cyberlaw enforcement official has told lawmakers.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991007S0016

FC