[iwar] what next? DDoS and then?
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Subject: [iwar] what next? DDoS and then?
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Hi everybody,
So far we looked at the Middle East 'Cyberconflict' or so called 'Infowar'
(or maybe even better 'Cybergraffiti' war)
which was nothing more than some sort of perception management and psyops
campaign (very primitive one,
e.g. the fake IDF web site). People spend too much time looking at this form
of 'conflict' gathering what I like to call
tactical intelligence (web site defacements, ...) and forget to look at the
strategic picture.
The question I would like to ask is what is going to happen next? Web page
defacements are the current flavour of the day,
but as they become more and more the norm (for example, who among us is
still paying a lot of attention to Attrition reports?),
hence some people moved on to DDoS attacks which can be done with tools
found within three minutes search on the Internet
(e.g. Mafiaboy). So some sort of DDoS attacks might do the job for a while
to attract media attention (everything comes down
to perception management). But then when DDoS attacks become the norm, what
will be next to attract the public/media's attention??
Will the future malicious hackers / crackers move on to attack more high
value targets (NII, DII, safety critical systems)?
And might their campaigns be joined by terrorists who will also wage
'digital-to-digital' attacks?
Regards,
Wanja Eric Naef
Webmaster & Researcher
IWS - The Information Warfare Site
http://www.iwar.org.uk
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