Late Saturday, somewhere in Libya, a blinking light on a wireless router began to pulsate. It was the first time that most of Libya’s citizens were being connected to the rest of the world since Internet access had been killed in March. Over the weekend, data connections began to trickle in and out as the [...]
Online security risks have become increasingly prevalent with the likes of Anonymous and LulzSec continuing to expose the sorry state of corporate network security, and policymakers are clamoring to “do something” to address the threat. Unfortunately, there is a tendency in Washington to employ the rhetoric of war when talking about cybersecurity, which is a [...]
North Korea has been conducting “drills” for cyberwar against its southern neighbor using simple, but very effective denial-of-service attacks, according to security experts.
In today’s digital age, our sense of reality is often hardened by the different forms of media pelting us from every angle, especially when it comes to conflict overseas.
In 2007, the Baltic republic of Estonia was blindsided by a series of large-scale cyber attacks, crippling the country’s government, financial and media online networks – the world’s first cyberwar. Eventually the origins of the denial of service (DDoS) assaults were traced to Russia, which has led the country to create a Cyber Defense League, [...]
Sometime in the late ’80s, master hacker Kevin Phenicle, a.k.a. “Boingthump,” went underground. For a few years, until the law caught up with him, he drifted around the country, constantly changing his appearance, creating new identities for himself, and making money by rigging radio station call-in contests. That’s the story covered by Wizzywig, Volume 3: [...]
