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Cyber Warfare Growing: From Academic Background to Current Events

As the world struggles to slowly recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, protests and even riots are breaking out across America in response to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.  

Meanwhile, cyberattack stories, which would normally be getting much more attention under different circumstance, are rarely even discussed on the local news or news channels like Fox and CNN.

And yet, the significant cyber stories continue to grow in the spring of 2020.

For example: 

• CBS News: NSA warns of new cyberattacks by Russian military hackers
• NY Times: Israel Hack of Iran Port Is Latest Salvo in Exchange of Cyberattacks
• The Times of Israel: ‘Cyber winter is coming,’ warns Israel cyber chief after attack on water systems

Here’s a quote from the last article from Israel: “Rapid is not something that describes enough how fast and how crazy and hectic things are moving forward in cyberspace and I think we will remember this last month and May 2020 as a changing point in the history of modern cyber warfare,” he said in a video address to CybertechLive Asia, a digital international cyberconference.  

When we add in the growing body of evidence related to increases in hacking, cyberattacks and data breaches during the COVID-19 global pandemic, which I have highlighted over the past few months, we see a pattern that is making the Internet less safe.

A Wider, Deeper Look at Cyber Warfare — Truth, Tactics, and Strategies

But I want to take a slightly different take at this topic in this blog, with a set of solutions offered by Dr. Chase Cunningham in his new book Cyber Warfare — Truth, Tactics and Strategies.

As background on the author, Cunningham is a retired Navy chief cryptologist with more than 20 years’ experience in cyber forensic and analytic operations.

In his (Read more...)