ACI News

Cyber Threat Reports 28 Mar - 10 Apr 2017
April 10, 2017 — Army Cyber Institute Cyber Threat Report Tech Trends: Stories and Highlights Be Afraid: China is on the Path to Global Technology Dominance. Farmers are Hacking Their Tractors So They Can Actually Fix Them. Malware 'disguised as Siemens Software Drills into 10 Industrial Plants'. FCC Moves to crack Down on Scam Robocalls. Massive Gift Card Fraud... MORE

Redefining the Battlefield: the Army Cyber Institute at West Point
April 1, 2017 — "The Army Cyber Institute was designed with the unique ability (not just within the Army and West Point, but possible within the entire military) to bridge the public and private sectors and to examine them through multiple academic disciplines." MORE

The Intelligence Costs of Underestimating Russia: A Warning from History
March 31, 2017 — In explosive testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday, Thomas Rid and Clint Watts provided detailed information revealing the extent to which Russian intelligence services deliberately targeted the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the American political system writ large. MORE

The Intelligence Costs of Underestimating Russia: A Warning from History
March 31, 2017 — "Questions over the extent and nature of the relationship between President Donald Trump’s administration and Vladimir Putin’s Russia continue to dominate the headlines. In explosive testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday, Thomas Rid and Clint Watts provided detailed information revealing the extent to which Russian... MORE

Terrorists use the Dark Web to hide
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Cyber Threat Reports 21 Mar - 27 Mar 2017
March 27, 2017 — Army Cyber Institute Cyber Threat Report Tech Trends: Stories and Highlights AV firms do need to strop breaking HTTPS. 21% of Websites still use insecure SHA-1 certificates. Why printers still pose a security threat. Another Challenge for IoT: Open Backdoors. DDoS Protection: 14 unique ways to protect your organization.READ MORE MORE

The Violence of Hacking: State Violence and Cyberspace
March 24, 2017 — The violence of bits and bytes is real. How can we conceive of violence in a digital world? Do traditional definitions provide a reasonable means to understand the impact of violence emanating from cyberspace? This work examines the concept of violence at the state level and builds and argument that violence is not confined to pre-digital static... MORE

Cyber Threat Reports 07 Mar - 20 Mar 2017
March 20, 2017 — Army Cyber Institute Cyber Threat Report Tech Trends: Stories and Highlights Data leak exposes 36k Boeing employees. Engineers exfiltrate data by blinking hard drives' LEDs. Necurs Botnet gets proxy module with DDoS capabilities. Cloudbleed: Websites leaked crypto keys, passwords, more due to Cloudflare bug. Google Demonstrates first ever SHA-1... MORE

The CyberWire Daily Podcast(Futurist Brian David Johnson explains Threatcasting)
March 17, 2017 — "The CyberWire Daily Podcast is our look at what's happening in cyberspace. It provides a clear and concise summary of the news and offers commentary from industry experts as well as our Academic and Research Partners. Each Friday, we provide the usual daily summary along with a look back at the news for the entire week. We publish each weekday... MORE

Information Warfare Isn't Russian
March 8, 2017 — "Information warfare is not new, but developments in information technology have enabled it to deliver its payloads vaster and over a much wider network. Looking to Putin’s intelligence apparatus is not to witness the genesis of political information warfare. In fact, the United States was birthed in a stew of information, misinformation,... MORE