Google versus china the first cyber war

Google v. China: Our first cyber war David Strom [email_address] (310) 857 6867 (c) David Strom http://strominator.com

(c) David Strom http://strominator.com

2003: Titan Rain DoD attack
10:23 pm Army Fort Huachuca Engineering Cmd.
1:19 am DISA, Virginia
3:25 am Naval OSC, San Diego
4:46 am Army Space Cmd, Huntsville Ala.
All within a few hours in November 2003!

Estonia’s ‘Bronze Night’
4/07: DDOS attack perhaps by Russian government-sponsored hackers on hundreds of targets

More recently
9/07: Israel scrambled Syrian radar and attacked and leveled a nuclear installation

Fourth of July 2009
N. Korean DDOS on US federal government Web sites , stock exchanges, and S. Korean sites by a huge botnet of more than 20k nodes
Three different attacks over five days
More like “cyber terrorism” than outright war

Hopkins APL 2009 (c) David Strom http://strominator.com

Google and China, 2010
Google’s internal email accounts compromised
Moved its servers to Hong Kong
Gave up its business on the mainland

Internet users (c) David Strom http://strominator.com

What is cyber warfare?
No delay between launch and effects of an attack
Can quickly become global
Origin is hard to identify
Civilians as well as military targets
It is happening every day somewhere

What $26 gets you (c) David Strom http://strominator.com

Today’s irony
The less online a country is, the better it can defend its Internet borders!
The more connected, the more vulnerable!

WHAT DO THESE ROOMS HAVE IN COMMON? (c) David Strom http://strominator.com

Cold war spying
Needed physical access to assets, people, or plans
Spies would remove something
Easy to identify, despite tradecraft
Containable

Our new war tech (c) David Strom http://strominator.com

The other side’s war tech
They can be anywhere
Even sitting at home in their PJs!
They don’t even have to remove anything – just copy it somewhere else

Our biggest threat
Or McDonalds or anywhere there is free Wifi!

Recommendations
VPNs for everyone

Lockdown your laptops (c) David Strom http://strominator.com

(c) David Strom http://strominator.com Encryption needs to be rule, not the exception

Thanks and questions?
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Google versus china the first cyber war

by David Strom

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