Hackers Intensify Fears Of Industrial Espionage
A story on information security risks that appeared in National Defense Magazine.
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Generation Hack
This is a popular culture piece written for the now defunct Upstart Magazine. It is a first person perspective from a 1996 hacker conference that I attended.
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Hackers open door to Windows
Each year, I get numerous requests from the media to discuss events surrounding the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas. In this story, the Financial Times spoke to me about the role that WhiteHat hackers play in the security community. I am still not a fan of security through obscurity.
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Was it You Who Attacked Yahoo?
The Guardian in the UK was one of several media outlets that ran with stories inspired by my DDOS editorial in 2000.
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Organizing for Information Warfare: The Truth is Out There!
Coauthored with Brian Houghton and Neal Pollard, this is the follow-up to our "Toaster" paper. Written in 1997, it was exclusively circulated within the U.S. government, but was later made available to the general public.
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Information Terrorism: Can You Trust Your Toaster?
Coauthored with Brian Houghton and Neal Pollard, this paper won the 1996 Sun Tzu Art of War Research Award and has been published by the National Defense University Press, Terrorism and Political Violence Journal, and Jane's Newsletter.
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DDOS Editorial
This editorial was written shortly after the Distributed Denial of Service attacks in 2000. It describes the emerging issue of legal liability associated with poor security practices. In 2002, we actually have courts taking action in this critical area. While I think due diligence will be a key motivator for information security, the fact that federal judges can shut down entire infrastructures (as happened with the Department of Interior) makes me a little nervous.
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CNN Soundbite
The real exposure to information warfare or cyberterrorism attacks exists within the private sector. To that end, I said the following when interviewed by CNN in January 2000: "If you look at the likely targets of an attack by an adversary against the United States, it's not going to be the military computers. It's going to be the private sector infrastructure targets, the major telecommunications switches, the major public power grids."
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Political Aspects of Class III Information Warfare: Global Conflict and Terrorism
The following are unproofed, unedited speaking notes from my presentation at InfoWarCon II in Montreal, Canada on January 18-19, 1995. It is interesting to read them today and see how little has changed.
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Future Presence Interview
In February of 2000 I was interviewed for Future Presence, which is a publication of the Arlington Institute. Given the length of the interview and the breadth of material covered, I think it makes for a very interesting read.