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    The document discusses information warfare and cyberattacks. It defines information warfare as using information resources to gain an advantage over adversaries, including through cyberattacks that can cripple a nation's resources. Cyberattacks can come from other countries or individuals and impact critical infrastructure. Examples discussed are the Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear facilities and the NotPetya attack attributed to Russia. In response, countries are developing cyber warfare capabilities, like the U.S. Cyber Command. The key takeaway is that modern warfare involves digital attacks on systems managing critical infrastructure rather than traditional battlefields.

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    The document discusses information warfare and cyberattacks. It defines information warfare as using information resources to gain an advantage over adversaries, including through cyberattacks that can cripple a nation's resources. Cyberattacks can come from other countries or individuals and impact critical infrastructure. Examples discussed are the Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear facilities and the NotPetya attack attributed to Russia. In response, countries are developing cyber warfare capabilities, like the U.S. Cyber Command. The key takeaway is that modern warfare involves digital attacks on systems managing critical infrastructure rather than traditional battlefields.

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    INFORMATION WAREFARE

    INFORMATION WARFARE
    ITN 261
    INFORMATION WARFARE 

    What is It?
    8 INFORMATION WARFARE

    What is it?
    Can mean different things to
    different people.
    Can range from the use of
    information resources to gain an
    advantage over one’s adversaries
    – to full-blown cyber warfare.
    For our purposes, we will consider
    how cyberwarfare, cyberattacks,
    can be used to cripple a nation’s
    resources, through the use of
    digital attacks.
    08 INFORMATION WARFARE

    CYBERATTACKS

    Cyberattacks can come from anywhere, from other countries (nation state attacks), or even
    one lone bad actors. Watch a couple of YouTube Videos on Stuxnet 

    (here is one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAy46DhWW8Y ) and consider the following:

    • To whom was the attack attributed?

    • What was the intent of the attack?

    • How was the attack performed?

    • What would have been the result if the virus made the plant explode?

    • If you had been the manager at Natanz, what policies or security controls could you have
    put into place to have prevented the attack?
    08 INFORMATION WARFARE

    Cyberattacks can impact all Most other large countries have In response to this threat, the U.S.
    aspects of critical infrastructure. had information/cyber warfare has created a new command
    Consider 9/11. Not only were our organizations for several years.
    called “Cyber Command” – a
    financial centers impacted, but it military department focused on
    was the first time in U.S. history that both defensive and offensive cyber
    all airplanes flying were immediately warfare.
    grounded.

    08 INFORMATION WARFARE

    CYBERATTACKS

    Common attacks include


    hacking users’ home computers
    and laptops, turning them into
    bots by downloading Trojans
    onto their systems. These
    botnets (collections of bots) can
    then be used to perform
    distributed denial of service
    (DDoS) attacks on government
    facilities and critical
    infrastructure.
    08 INFORMATION WARFARE

    What if a Cyber Attack Resulted in a Loss of Life?

    • Just like WannaCry was attributed to North Korea,


    NotPetya was attributed to Russian military. 


    • While initially believed to be just ransomware, closing


    hundreds of millions of dollars to European
    organizations, Symantec researchers concluded it was
    actually designed to completely wipe systems. 


    • This resulted in the U.S. placing sanctions against


    Russia. What would have been the likely U.S. response
    had this resulted in the deaths of U.S. citizens? The
    Petya ransom note – Attributed to Russia. 
 Image: Symantec Read the article at: https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-
    militarybehind-notpetya-attacks-uk-officially-names-andshames-kremlin/

    

    

    08 INFORMATION WARFARE

    NOT PETYA

    As mentioned in the Stuxnet video,


    once cyber weapons are used against
    another country, that country then has
    the tools to attack others. Consider
    how NotPetry as developed. In April
    2017, a hacking team called the
    Shadow Brokers hacked into the NSA
    and stole tools leveraging Windows
    and Linux exploits that NSA hackers
    were using to hack into banking
    systems. This group (unsuccessfully
    attempting to sell the tools) then
    began releasing the tools to others.
    Read the slide notes: Note that most
    of these tools targeted older operating
    systems that were still being used by
    organizations and were not patched!
    08 INFORMATION WARFARE

    TAKEAWAY SUMMARY

    We are in an era where war will not


    be fought on the traditional
    battlefield – it will attack the
    computers and systems that
    manage critical infrastructure, such
    as power grids, nuclear power
    plants, trains and airports.
    Attacks in information warfare are
    really no different than those used
    against any organization – DDoS
    through buffer overflows and
    malicious traffic, password
    cracking, SQL injection to find
    account information, etc.
    In most cases, these successful
    attacks could have been avoided by
    organizations upgrading network
    infrastructure to more secure,
    newer, versions, and/or patching
    their systems.

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