get ready for digital false flag attacks

Is the new Cybercommand policy to open the public's eyes? Or, is the only open eye at the top of the pyramid? Are you beginning to feel like an abused b-slapped spouse? You should! Rob Kall at OEN writes definitive article, "Get Ready for Digital False Flag Attacks," about Pentagon's move to codify cyberwar with "equivalence" policy. "If a cyber attack produces the death, damage, destruction or high-level disruption that a traditional military attack would cause, then it would be a candidate for a "use of force" consideration, which could merit retaliation." It's simply an eye for an eye. The United States will be allowed by policy to retaliate with military force if a Stuxnet-like virus turned off, say, nuclear plant vents and caused a F**USHIMA here!.


Do you believe hundreds of Cybercommand desktop warriors make you safer? An imagination can run wild. An old GE nuclear plant suffers a core meltdown due to stuck or damaged valves which fail to vent as a result of destructive commands from a Stuxnet virus! You wonder if older plants are more vulnerable and reason Germany closed their oldest reactors? Within a day if not hours, the enemy gets identified as Pakistan and yet another military operation organized to get the evil-doers! It's just one possible scenario but the potential is there for another public sacrifice on the path to another war! Does it sound familiar?

The thin cover provided by lame politically-inspired false flag events are the b-slap across your face as the perps hiss, "what ya' gonna do 'bout it?" What are we going to do about it?

vanity fair on stuxnet: a declaration of cyberwar

did US intel mastermind the stuxnet cyber-missile?
from vanity fair: Last summer, the world’s top software-security experts were panicked by the discovery of a drone-like computer virus, radically different from and far more sophisticated than any they’d seen. The race was on to figure out its payload, its purpose, and who was behind it. As the world now knows, the Stuxnet worm appears to have attacked Iran’s nuclear program. And, as Michael Joseph Gross reports, while its source remains something of a mystery, Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating.

china ups cyberwar stakes

Northrop Grumman published a study of China's capability to conduct cyberwarfare last year. The present writer suggests at least surveying, "An Operational Profile of An Advanced Cyber Intrusion". The section contains a very readable review of a sophisticated data collection operation and intrusion upon large US company networks. It's an education. ZDNET Asia provides a more disturbing quote from the same document in, "China's US $90b ups cyberwar stakes,"... document also claimed the country has stockpiled a kinetic arsenal that includes lasers, high-power microwave systems and nuclear-generated electromagnetic pulses to supplement its cyber warfare force. It also claimed the country is training its forces to work under 'complex electromagnetic conditions'." This represents serious and sober preparation for knocking out and operating computer systems under very harsh and adverse conditions. It's war preparation, clearly!

cyberwar on korean peninsula

Is warfare headed online? South Koreans hacked into North Korea's official twitter account recently and posted messages, defaming leader Kim Jong-il and son Kim Jong-un. North Koreans mounted an attack in retaliation and shut down the alleged website in the South responsible for the remarks. Justin McCurry writes further in, "Korean hackers mount cyber skirmishes in propaganda war," "...propaganda wars are not confined to private citizens: the Korean Times reported plans to launch propaganda audio and video webcasts targeting the few North Koreans with access to the internet." Pyongyang warns meanwhile of "grave consequences". You can learn more at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) website in "The Evolution of Cyber Warfare," a 2008 article by Greg Bruno.

hacktivism!

Activist Post picked up the Reuters article, "Wikileaks battle: a new amateur face of cyber war?", which seems to confirm cyber war has escalated and entered a new more dangerous phase. The article reports Wikileaks' defense has become "...something of a popular rebellion amongst hundreds or thousands of tech-savvy activists." The online movement even has a name: "Operation Avenge Assange". The current operation behind recent attacks on Mastercard and Visa among others is an outgrowth of an earlier series of attacks called, Operation Payback. These operations use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to deny access to a targeted website. An online group Anonymous "...appears to be using social networking site Twitter to coordinate attacks on websites belonging to entities it views as trying to silence WikiLeaks." Will attacks continue until Assange is set free and Wikileaks no longer targeted? This new development of internet anarchism via amateur attacks is bad news, as it plays right into the hands of those who wish to restrict the internet! Is this synthetic terror?

US fingers china for cyber-jacking internet traffic

Should the incident be called eighteen minutes in April? Guardian.co.uk article reports China Telecom, a state owned company, had access to emails from NASA and US Army for a brief time earlier this year. The access could be used for malicious activities by China. China Telecom denies any hijacking. According to an annual security report, "the US report said that some 15% of global internet traffic was routed through Chinese servers earlier this year, prompting worries....US commissioner Larry Wortzel raised concerns on Wednesday that China would now 'get the internet addresses of everybody that communicated' with the US armed services' chiefs of staff... Online security experts say the capture represents 'one of the biggest hijacks' of sensitive information in the history of the internet." Is this a volley in a mounting cyberwar of finger-pointing between the two countries?