This app was developed to launch cyber jihad attacks against various US networks. More information here:
http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/news/2116329/hackers-launch-cyber-jihad
Where "cyber jihad attacks" apparently means the defacing of relatively unimportant government web pages such as the site of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center. (Teh horror! Hundreds of citizens interested in oceanic and atmospheric administration in danger of being mildly annoyed! This requires a full redesign of teh interwebs IMMEDIATELY.)
Various (DoS) and (DDoS) distributed denial of service attacks used in cyber crime and cyber warfare:
http://www.ddosinfo.com/
Where on "warfare" we mean that government web pages designed for low traffic might become unavailable for days. Again, teh horror!
More importantly, DDOS attacks have jack shit to do with privacy and anonimity; they are based on weak security of some older operating systems and lack of security education amongst internet users.
Cyber attack against U.S. Air Force fighter jets: http://www.mxlogic.com/securitynews/network-security/report-spies-hack-us-air-force-fighter-plans184.cfm
Cyber attack against fighter jets! How ominous! Them evil viruses make our jets explode in mid-air!
Of course upon reading this turns out to be bullshit too; it is about industrial espionage in which some of the less important data on the new F-35 planes was stolen (sensitive technical information, stored separately on more secure servers, was not compromised).
Iraqi's hack into drone feeds: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/index.html
Where "hack into" means they listened in on unencrypted video feeds sent by these drones.
"Dalian University of Technology published a paper on how to attack a small U.S. power grid sub-network in a way that would cause a cascading failure of the entire U.S.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/world/asia/21grid.html
This is, of course, no more "cyber" than your average wall outlet. The paper examines in a very abstract graph-theoretic way how failure in certain parts of the US power grid might overload other parts.
Thanks for giving us a demonstration of how totally average acts of small-scale hacking and some unrelated news can be glued together into a big scary "cyberwar" concept, I guess.
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This app was developed to launch cyber jihad attacks against various US networks. More information here:
http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/news/2116329/hackers-launch-cyber-jihad
Where "cyber jihad attacks" apparently means the defacing of relatively unimportant government web pages such as the site of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center. (Teh horror! Hundreds of citizens interested in oceanic and atmospheric administration in danger of being mildly annoyed! This requires a full redesign of teh interwebs IMMEDIATELY.)
Various (DoS) and (DDoS) distributed denial of service attacks used in cyber crime and cyber warfare:
http://www.ddosinfo.com/
Where on "warfare" we mean that government web pages designed for low traffic might become unavailable for days. Again, teh horror!
More importantly, DDOS attacks have jack shit to do with privacy and anonimity; they are based on weak security of some older operating systems and lack of security education amongst internet users.
Cyber attack against U.S. Air Force fighter jets: http://www.mxlogic.com/securitynews/network-security/report-spies-hack-us-air-force-fighter-plans184.cfm
Cyber attack against fighter jets! How ominous! Them evil viruses make our jets explode in mid-air!
Of course upon reading this turns out to be bullshit too; it is about industrial espionage in which some of the less important data on the new F-35 planes was stolen (sensitive technical information, stored separately on more secure servers, was not compromised).
Iraqi's hack into drone feeds: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/index.html
Where "hack into" means they listened in on unencrypted video feeds sent by these drones.
"Dalian University of Technology published a paper on how to attack a small U.S. power grid sub-network in a way that would cause a cascading failure of the entire U.S.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/world/asia/21grid.html
This is, of course, no more "cyber" than your average wall outlet. The paper examines in a very abstract graph-theoretic way how failure in certain parts of the US power grid might overload other parts.
Thanks for giving us a demonstration of how totally average acts of small-scale hacking and some unrelated news can be glued together into a big scary "cyberwar" concept, I guess.