This document discusses cyber warfare and the threats it poses. It defines cyber warfare as using computers and the internet to conduct warfare in cyberspace. It notes governments' vulnerability due to their reliance on internet-connected systems like power grids. Examples are given of cyber attacks on Estonia, the Pentagon, and countries involved in conflicts like Georgia. The document suggests future wars may target critical infrastructure through cyber means to cause damage without risking attackers' lives. It remains unclear if a large-scale cyber war has occurred but attacks are developing and pose threats like crippling a country by disrupting communication, utilities, and access to sensitive information.
What is the difference between a hacking attack and a cyberwar attack? What do current militaries consider an attack vs. exploitation or just «normal operations»? Kevin will present an overview on the cyber warfare topic and the current understanding of Advanced Persistent Threats in the context of cyber defense.
Referent: Kevin Kirst
Cyber Terrorism - Analysis and Strategies for defending your business against cyberterror threats and attacks, with focus on the Banking and Financial Services Sector
Presentation on cyber warfare, recent examples, current capabilities of the major players, and issues relating to the advancement of cyber warfare and cyber security in the United States. The Cyber War Forum Initiative is promoted for its role in solving many elements of the issues facing the US.
What is the difference between a hacking attack and a cyberwar attack? What do current militaries consider an attack vs. exploitation or just «normal operations»? Kevin will present an overview on the cyber warfare topic and the current understanding of Advanced Persistent Threats in the context of cyber defense.
Referent: Kevin Kirst
Cyber Terrorism - Analysis and Strategies for defending your business against cyberterror threats and attacks, with focus on the Banking and Financial Services Sector
Presentation on cyber warfare, recent examples, current capabilities of the major players, and issues relating to the advancement of cyber warfare and cyber security in the United States. The Cyber War Forum Initiative is promoted for its role in solving many elements of the issues facing the US.
CyberSecurity: Intellectual Property dispute fuels CyberwarElyssa Durant
deep links! Firetown run by Michael Dammann is an illegal operation registered in the United States of America by a known disinformation agent and FRAUD. The Firetown News Network is farce. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 101. I want my shit back! Let the record show, you can delete a post but there is a always a trace. #InfoSec
Cyberterrorism is the use of Internet based attacks in terrorist activities, including acts of deliberate, large-scale disruption of computer networks, especially of personal computers attached to the Internet, by the means of tools such as computer viruses.
Cyberterrorism is a controversial term. Some authors choose a very narrow definition, relating to deployments, by known terrorist organizations, of disruption attacks against information systems for the primary purpose of creating alarm and panic. By this narrow definition, it is difficult to identify any instances of cyberterrorism.
Cyberterrorism can be also defined as the intentional use of computer, networks, and public internet to cause destruction and harm for personal objectives.[1] Objectives may be political or ideological since this is a form of terrorism[citation needed].
There is much concern from government and media sources about potential damages that could be caused by cyberterrorism, and this has prompted official responses from government agencies.
The European Parliament is the latest government entity Lars G. A. Hilse has briefed about the risks of cyberterrorism. Yet these risks aren’t limited to critical infrastructure. Cyberterrorism is responsible for devastating collateral damage in the private sector, also. This talk presents detailed insights into the past, present, and future of the most significant threat in history, and how these risks can be mitigated/reduced.
CyberSecurity: Intellectual Property dispute fuels CyberwarElyssa Durant
deep links! Firetown run by Michael Dammann is an illegal operation registered in the United States of America by a known disinformation agent and FRAUD. The Firetown News Network is farce. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 101. I want my shit back! Let the record show, you can delete a post but there is a always a trace. #InfoSec
Cyberterrorism is the use of Internet based attacks in terrorist activities, including acts of deliberate, large-scale disruption of computer networks, especially of personal computers attached to the Internet, by the means of tools such as computer viruses.
Cyberterrorism is a controversial term. Some authors choose a very narrow definition, relating to deployments, by known terrorist organizations, of disruption attacks against information systems for the primary purpose of creating alarm and panic. By this narrow definition, it is difficult to identify any instances of cyberterrorism.
Cyberterrorism can be also defined as the intentional use of computer, networks, and public internet to cause destruction and harm for personal objectives.[1] Objectives may be political or ideological since this is a form of terrorism[citation needed].
There is much concern from government and media sources about potential damages that could be caused by cyberterrorism, and this has prompted official responses from government agencies.
The European Parliament is the latest government entity Lars G. A. Hilse has briefed about the risks of cyberterrorism. Yet these risks aren’t limited to critical infrastructure. Cyberterrorism is responsible for devastating collateral damage in the private sector, also. This talk presents detailed insights into the past, present, and future of the most significant threat in history, and how these risks can be mitigated/reduced.
Cyber is one of our areas that we also promote in Must HighTech Expo. We invite you to participate in our virtual exhibitions, on different high tech thematic and especially on cybersecurity.
Presentation to OECD project group on Global Risk. Expanded version presented to British Computer Society, Deutsche Bank and University of Southern Denmark.
Cyber(in)security: systemic risks and responsesblogzilla
Presented at National Security 2008 in Brussels. Updated for British Computer Society, Deutsche Bank, Oxford University, and University of Southern Denmark.
Cyberwar is a form of conflict conducted in the digital realm, where nations, organizations, or individuals use cyberattacks and cyber espionage to achieve strategic goals or gain an advantage over their adversaries. Here's a detailed description of the topic:
1. **Definition**: Cyberwar refers to the use of computer-based techniques and tactics to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to computer systems, networks, and critical infrastructure, often with the intent to exert influence, espionage, or conduct acts of aggression against an adversary.
2. **Goals and Objectives**:
- **Espionage**: One primary objective of cyberwarfare is to gather intelligence by infiltrating the computer networks of other nations, organizations, or individuals.
- **Disruption**: Cyberwarfare can be used to disrupt critical infrastructure, such as power grids, transportation systems, or financial institutions, causing chaos and economic damage.
- **Destruction**: In some cases, cyberattacks may aim to destroy data, systems, or capabilities, causing long-term damage.
- **Psychological Operations**: Cyberwarfare can be used for psychological operations (PsyOps) to manipulate public opinion or create fear and uncertainty.
3. **Methods**:
- **Malware**: The use of malicious software like viruses, worms, Trojans, and ransomware to compromise systems.
- **Phishing**: Deceptive emails or websites that trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like passwords.
- **Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)** attacks: Overwhelming a target's network or website to render it inaccessible.
- **Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)**: Long-term, targeted attacks aimed at stealing information or controlling systems.
- **Zero-Day Exploits**: Exploiting vulnerabilities in software or hardware that are not yet known to the vendor.
4. **Attribution Challenges**: Determining the source of cyberattacks can be difficult due to the use of proxy servers, false flags, or the involvement of non-state actors.
5. **International Laws and Norms**: The legal framework for cyberwar is still evolving. Nations are working to establish rules and norms governing state behavior in cyberspace.
6. **Escalation and Deterrence**: The use of cyberweapons raises concerns about escalation and deterrence. The lack of clear boundaries in cyberspace can lead to unintended consequences.
7. **Notable Examples**:
- Stuxnet: A computer worm allegedly developed by the United States and Israel to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.
- NotPetya: A ransomware attack in 2017 that caused widespread damage, initially believed to be a cyberattack by Russia against Ukraine.
- SolarWinds: A supply chain attack discovered in 2020, attributed to Russian hackers, which compromised numerous U.S. government and private sector.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. Cyber-Warfare:
▪ is the use of computers and the Internet in
conducting warfare in cyberspace.
V.S.
Information Security:
▪ protecting information and information systems from unauthorized
access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction.
7. What you are searching for
1.
What web pages you visit
2.
What blogs you read – Google Reader
3.
Your financial information – AdSense /
4.
Google Checkout
Strength / Popularity of your website –
5.
Google Analytics / Google Page Creator
8. 6. Who and what you’re emailing –
Gmail
7. What’s on your PC – Google Desktop
8. Your research paper, bills, etc. –
uploading documents to Google
9. Your schedule – Google Calendar
10. Your social network and interests –
Google indexes
(Orkut, Facebook, Digg)
9. 11. When you’re going to get the flu – Google
flu tracker
12. Where you and your friends are – Google
Latitude / Google Maps
13. What you’re watching on You Tube –
Google owns You Tube
14. What and where you study – Google
Books, Scholar, and University
15. Everything you’re looking at online –
Google Chrome
10. 16. Your problems – searching Google
for answers
17. Your medical issues – Google Health
18. Your home address – Google
Maps, AdSense, or Checkout
19. Mobile number – SM, Google
Mobile, and Gmail
20. How your voice sounds – Google Talk
11. 21. What you, your friends and family look
like and do – Picasa
22. Everything you do online – Google Secure
Access encrypts your data
23. What you want to buy and have bought –
product search and catalog
24. What you business is about – Adwords
share information with Google
25. What’s important to you – Google Alerts
12. Against Video Privacy Act?
Every video on You Tube, the judge required
Google to turn over to Viacom the login name of
every user who had watched it and the address
of their computer (IP)
Viacom claims information will be safeguarded
and will be used only to press charges against
Google ($1 billion copyright suit)
Public afraid of information being used against
them
13. Identity Theft / Stalker / Target Ads
Full name
Hometown
School
Class schedule
Email
Phone Number
Picture
Religion
Activities / Interests
14. 150 million users
Businesses can look at your Facebook
Check privacy settings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/737
6738.stm
15. Doomsday April 1st?
Conficker is a computer worm that exploits
the weaknesses in Microsoft’s Windows
12 million machines infected with software
code that will connect the infected machine
it controls to a powerful computer known as
botnet
Microsoft announces a $250,000 reward for
information leading to the capture of the
Conficker author
16. “Perhaps the most obvious frightening aspect of
Conficker is its clear potential to do harm.
Perhaps in the best case, Conficker may be
used as sustained and profitable platform for
massive Internet fraud and theft. In the worst
case, Conficker could be turned into a powerful
offensive weapon for performing concerted
information warfare attacks that could disrupt
not just countries, but the Internet itself.”
Phillip Porras
-
Research Director at SRI International
18. Cyber Warfare:
The term cyber-warfare has many manifestations, ranging
between website vandalism, iWar (information
warfare), to destroying a country's critical infrastructure!
Government Vulnerability:
Large dependency on information platforms linked to the
internet. Such as power
grids, water, fuel, communications, and public
transportation. They are all vulnerable to a cyber attack.
An example that highlights this is the Russian-Georgian war in 2008.
Cyber Warfare still a relatively new type of war. Most
of the research is based on “potential-harm”.
19. Cyber-war highlights:
▪ Jordan's’ Techno power:
Those involved in cyber warfare have a vast amount of techno power. As
these “hackers” can destroy a country from inside out in a short time, and
with complete anonymity. The true manifestation of “power”. Or they can
manipulate any corporation, steal money, the limits are endless. They can
access anythign connected to cyber space.
▪ Marvin’s Experts:
The experts that can engage in cyber warfare are put above all others in
the realm of the internet.
Why?
▪ Because they can.
▪ Power
▪ Contracted.
▪ Can sell skills to terrorist groups or governments for money.
20. As the Internet becomes more pervasive in all areas of
human endeavor, individuals or groups can use the
anonymity afforded by cyberspace to threaten
citizens, specific groups (i.e. with membership based on
ethnicity or belief), communities and entire
countries, without the inherent threat of capture, injury, or
death to the attacker that being physically present would
bring.
Leveraging of a target's computers and
information, particularly via the Internet, to cause
physical, real-world harm or severe disruption of
infrastructure.
21. The targets usually consisted of normal individual
internet users 10 – 15 years ago. Now targets can be
countries, large corporations, etc; as society became
more “digital”.
Are only developed countries open to attack?
▪ Yes, the more developed countries are susceptible to cyber warfare.
As most of the foundations of the country and population lie within
the realms of communication based in cyberspace.
▪ Lesser developed countries can be effected just as much. Although
it won’t hit the general population as hard.
Future wars and terrorism will look to manipulate and
target foundations with no losses.
22. On May 17, 2007 Estonia came under cyber attack. The
Estonian parliament, ministries, banks, and media were
targeted.
On first week of September 2007, The Pentagon and
various French, German and British government
computers were attacked by hackers of Chinese origin.
The Chinese government denies any involvement
Georgian and Azerbaijani sites were attacked by hackers
during the 2008 South Ossetia War.
The United States had come under attack from computers
and computer networks situated in China and Russia.
23. Cyber-warfare is still developing. Small attacks have been made
and attempted, but there hasn’t been a “large-scale” cyber war.
Still a war-type of the near future.
The following examples are just potential threats:
Can cripple a country
▪ Inhibit or stop all communication that uses any technological medium
▪ Could take control of power, water, and other necessities
▪ Confidential documents/plans stolen
▪ Total Control over most technological platforms (including nuclear codes and
access)…
Cyber warfare in media: (Somewhat possible damages if it were to
occur on a large scale)
▪ Eagle Eye
▪ Die Hard 4