1. Cyber Warfare
Web-based Weaponry in the Hands of Hackers

2. A Definition
“Cyber warfare involves units organized along
nation-state boundaries, in offensive and
defensive operations, using computers to
attack other computers or networks through
electronic means.”
Institute for Security Technology Studies
Dartmouth College
Source: http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/docs/cyberwarfare.pdf

3. A History
1979: The first March 1999:
hacker forum 1994: Russian Vladimir Hackers in Serbia May 1999: NATO
emerges from a Levin leads a group of attack NATO accidentally bombs the
crude electronic hackers that steals systems in retaliation Chinese embassy in
messaging board. millions of dollars for NATO’s military Belgrade, spawning a
from Citibank though intervention in wave of cyberattacks
its dial-up wire Kosovo. from China against U.S.
transfer service. government Web sites.
Source: http://fcw.com/articles/2009/10/19/feat-dod-cyber-timeline.aspx

4. A History
2003: Hackers begin a August 2008:
series of assaults on Cyber attackers
U.S. government June-July 2008: hijack government October 2009:
computer systems that Hundreds of government and commercial Web The new U.S. Cyber
lasts for years. The and corporate Web sites sites in Georgia Command is
government code in Lithuania are hacked, during a military scheduled to begin
names the attacks Titan and some are covered in conflict with Russia. overseeing the
Rain and eventually digital Soviet-era graffiti, protection of
traces them to China. implicating Russian military networks
nationalist hackers. from cyber threats.
Source: http://fcw.com/articles/2009/10/19/feat-dod-cyber-timeline.aspx

5. The New Threat
The Pentagon’s computer
networks are probed
250,000 time each hour.
About 6 million times a
day, by “more than 140
foreign spy organizations
trying ti infiltrate US
networks.”
Source: http://greathistory.com/uscybercoms-first-commander.htm

7. The War has Started
In July of 2010, STUXNET markedthe moment when
Stuxnet:
Cyber Warfare became a reality - an attack originating
in cyberspace targeting a part of a nation’s critical
national infrastructure.
The complexity of STUXNET suggests that a nation
state was heavily involved in its development. If this is
the case, there are massive implications for how future
wars will be fought, with conflict set to be characterized
by a dual campaign in cyberspace and in reality.

8. The War has Started

9. The War has Started

10. Discussion Points
Anonymity
Traceability
Emerging Threats
Catastrophic Consequences
The New “H-bomb”