Russia's Cyber Warfare Doctrine: From Hackers to H-Bombs
Jeff Carr writes on IntelFusion:
According to an article in Jane's Intelligence Review on the "e-mercenary" (30/07/2001), there were an estimated 250 to 500 hackers in Russia in 1999. Of those, about ten percent were available for hire. Today, it is widely believed that Russia and the states of the former Soviet Republic supply the majority of the world's hackers.
From a purely doctrinal standpoint, Russia and China share a similar cyberwarfare ideology:"According to Professor Major General Vladimir Belous, 'it can be predicted that the battlefield of the future will begin to shift more and more into the area of intellectual effect. An aggressor country is capable of developing, and under certain conditions executing, a scenario of information war against another state in an attempt to demolish it from within. In that way it is possible to force the enemy to surrender without using traditional kinds of weapons.' (Sergey Ishchenko, "Before the verdict is in: Computers on the attack: Cyberwars already are being depicted on Staff Maps," Moscow Trud, June 28, 2001)
More here.
posted by Fergie @ 2/02/2008 09:50:00 PM
2 Comments:
I was at a presentation by Kevin Coleman, he is one of the top cyber warfare subject matter experts in the US and he showed the data about current threats and forecasted the most likely scenarios of attacks. We are way behind and can't rely on the government to do everything.
Actually, I am of my favorite cyber security experts :-), and believe me -- they (the U.S. Government) are more behind than you know.
If they do not reach out to private industry, they will fall further behind.
Cheers,
- ferg
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