Cyberwar

Reading List

• Is the Risk of Cyberwarfare Overrated?
• Cyber-Weapons; Rid, T. and McBurney, P.; RUSI Journal
• The cyber-weapons paradox: They're not that dangerous
• Rid, T. Cyber War Will Not Take Place
• Schneier, B. - The Battle for Power on the Internet
• Schneier, B. - Understanding the threats in cyberspace
• Schneier, B. - Cyberconflicts and National Security
• Schneier, B. - Militarizing Cyberspace Will Do More Harm Than Good
• Schneier, B. - Has U.S Started an Internet War?
• Libicki, M. - Setting International Norms on Cyberwar Might Beat a Treaty
• New York Times Debate - What is an Act of Cyberwar?
• USNews Debate - Should There Be an International Treaty on Cyberwarfare?
• Inside Cyberwarfare
• Hersh, S. - The Online Threat: Should we be worried about a cyber war?
• Are the mouse and keyboard the new weapons of conflict
• Could hackers turn the lights out?
• Massive US-planned cyberattack against Iran went well beyond Stuxnet
• Staged cyber attack reveals vulnerability in power grid
• If the NSA has been hacking everything, how has nobody seen them coming?
• Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance
• Squirrel Power!
• Richard A. Clarke: Cyberwar in 2013
• Bauman, Z.; Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation
• Clarke, R.A; Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do
• Dissecting Stuxnet

Case Study - Stuxnet

• Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine's Power Grid

UK Policy

• The Global Cyber Game
• CPNI
• Security policy framework: protecting government assets
• The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about GCHQ
• Manningham-Buller, E.; Securing Freedom

US Military and Policy

• Special Report: U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback
• NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar
• Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
• Military and Security DevelopmentsInvolving the People’s Republic of China 2013
• Inside the NSA’s Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group
• The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA's all-seeing machine
• Silent War
• Presidential cyberwar directive gives Pentagon long-awaited marching orders
• New leaks reveal broad scope of US cyber offensive
• Former NSA chief warns of cyber-terror attacks if Snowden apprehended
• Darpa Turns Oculus Into a Weapon for Cyberwar
• Bamford, J; The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

Conferences

• (BruCON 2012 - Cyberwar: Not what we were expecting)
• (It's a MAD, MAD, MAD Cyberworkd Rod Beckstrom June 2013)

Presented At

• Newcastle Skeptics in the Pub on November 12, 2013