Google versus china the first cyber war

Google v. China:Our first cyber war

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2003: Titan Rain DoD attack

• 10:23 pm Army Fort Huachuca Engineering Cmd.

• 1:19 am DISA, Virginia• 3:25 am Naval OSC, San Diego• 4:46 am Army Space Cmd, Huntsville Ala.All within a few hours in November 2003!


Estonia’s ‘Bronze Night’

• 4/07: DDOS attack perhaps by Russian government-sponsored hackers on hundreds of targets


More recently

• 9/07: Israel scrambled Syrian radar and attacked and leveled a nuclear installation


Fourth of July 2009

• N. Korean DDOS on US federal government Web sites , stock exchanges, and S. Korean sites by a huge botnet of more than 20k nodes

• Three different attacks over five days• More like “cyber terrorism” than outright war


Hopkins APL 2009


Google and China, 2010

• Google’s internal email accounts compromised

• Moved its servers to Hong Kong• Gave up its business on the mainland


Internet users


What is cyber warfare?

• No delay between launch and effects of an attack

• Can quickly become global• Origin is hard to identify • Civilians as well as military targets• It is happening every day somewhere


What $26 gets you


Today’s irony

• The less online a country is, the better it can defend its Internet borders!

• The more connected, the more vulnerable!


WHAT DO THESE ROOMS HAVE IN COMMON?


Cold war spying

• Needed physical access to assets, people, or plans

• Spies would remove something• Easy to identify,

despite tradecraft• Containable


Our new war tech


The other side’s war tech

• They can be anywhere• Even sitting at home in

their PJs!• They don’t even have

to remove anything – just copy it somewhere else


Our biggest threat

• Or McDonalds or anywhere there is free Wifi!


Recommendations

• VPNs for everyone


Lockdown your laptops



Encryption needs to be rule, not the Encryption needs to be rule, not the exceptionexception

Thanks and questions?

• Copies of this presentation and others can be found here:

http://slideshare.net/davidstromMy website:http://strominator.com


Google versus china the first cyber war

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