Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld 9781449382995, 1449382991, 9780596802158, 9781449380175

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Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld
 9781449382995, 1449382991, 9780596802158, 9781449380175

Table of contents :
Content: Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
How This Book Came to Be
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
How to Contact Us
Safari® Books Online
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Assessing the Problem
The Complex Domain of Cyberspace
Cyber Warfare in the 20th and 21st Centuries
China
Israel
Russia
Iran
The Second Russian-Chechen War (1997-2001)
The Estonian cyber war (2007)
The Russia-Georgia War (2008)
North Korea
Cyber Espionage
Titan Rain
Cyber Crime
Future Threats
Increasing Awareness
Critical Infrastructure. The Conficker Worm: The Cyber Equivalent of an Extinction Event?Africa: The Future Home of the World's Largest Botnet?
The Way Forward
Chapter 2. The Rise of the Non-State Hacker
The StopGeorgia.ru Project Forum
Counter-Surveillance Measures in Place
The Russian Information War
The Foundation for Effective Politics' War on the Net (Day One)
The Gaza Cyber War Between Israeli and Arabic Hackers During Operation Cast Lead
Impact
Overview of Perpetrators
Motivations
Hackers' Profiles
Team Evil
Cold Zero (aka Cold Z3ro aka Roma Burner)
Team Hell (aka Team H3ll and Team Heil). Agd_Scorp/Peace Crew (aka Agd_Scorp/Terrorist Crew)Jurm Team
C-H Team (aka H-C Team)
Hackers Pal
Gaza Hacker Team
DNS Team
!TeAm RaBaT-SaLe! (aka Team Rabat-Sale aka Team Rabat-Sala)
DZ Team
Ashianeh Security Group
Nimr al-Iraq ("The Tiger of Iraq") and XX_Hacker_XX
Methods of Attack
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) capability
Website defacements
Viruses and Trojans
Israeli Retaliation
Control the Voice of the Opposition by Controlling the Content in Cyberspace: Nigeria
Are Non-State Hackers a Protected Asset?
Chapter 3. The Legal Status of Cyber Warfare. Nuclear Nonproliferation TreatiesThe Antarctic Treaty System and Space Law
UNCLOS
MALT
U.S. Versus Russian Federation: Two Different Approaches
The Law of Armed Conflict
Is This an Act of Cyber Warfare?
South Korea
Iran
Tatarstan
United States
Kyrgyzstan
Israel and the Palestinian National Authority
Zimbabwe
Myanmar
Cyber: The Chaotic Domain
Chapter 4. Responding to International Cyber Attacks As Acts of War
Introduction by Jeffrey Carr
Introduction
The Legal Dilemma
The Road Ahead: A Proposal to Use Active Defenses
The Law of War
General Prohibition on the Use of Force. The First Exception: UN Security Council ActionsThe Second Exception: Self-Defense
A Subset of Self-Defense: Anticipatory Self-Defense
An Alternate Basis for Using Active Defenses: Reprisals
Non-State Actors and the Law of War
Armed Attacks by Non-State Actors
Duties Between States
Imputing State Responsibility for Acts by Non-State Actors
Cross-Border Operations
Analyzing Cyber Attacks Under Jus ad Bellum
Cyber Attacks As Armed Attacks
Establishing State Responsibility for Cyber Attacks
The Duty to Prevent Cyber Attacks
Support from International Conventions.

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