ACI News

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

Cyber Threat Reports 16 Feb - 06 Mar 2017
March 6, 2017 — Army Cyber Institute Cyber Threat Report Tech Trends: Stories and Highlights Botnets have infiltrated the Twitter verse. Open-source Attack tools Open Pandora's Box. Intel has a chip with 24 cores that costs $9k. The security impact of HTTPS interception in the wild. Researchers transmit 10 bits with a single photon.READ MORE MORE

Stockpiling Zero-Day Exploits: The Next International Weapons Taboo
March 3, 2017 — In the current state of global affairs, a market exists for zero-day exploits where researchers, nation states, industry, academia, and criminal elements develop, buy, and sell these commodities. Whether they develop zero-days or purchase them, nation states commonly stockpile them for the future. They may then use them for purposes such as:... MORE

Intelligence Officers Won’t Exit En Masse During the Trump Administration
March 3, 2017 — "Former intelligence analyst Edward Price dramatically resigned from CIA last week in an op-ed in the Washington Post—complete with a video critique that has gone viral on social media. Is Mr. Price’s departure the first crack in a dam of intelligence professionals flooding toward the exits? Or can he be viewed as a theatrical, but statistically... MORE

Loop-Free Convergence With Unordered Updates
February 28, 2017 — This paper studies the feasibility of minimizing convergence delay and forwarding disruption without carrying any additional bits in the IP header, to provide high availability despite link failures in traditional IP networks. Previously proposed mechanisms achieve two of these three objectives by trading off the other objective. For instance, the... MORE

CIA service and sacrifice will continue, no matter who is sitting in the White House
February 17, 2017 — "CIA officers are not a monolithic bunch. Some are introverts, some are extroverts. Some are Republicans and some are Democrats, although many or even most are fiercely independent like the Agency itself. They don’t care if they deliver unwelcome news; they care about what’s true." MORE

Expanding tech advantages, 'cyber resiliency'
February 15, 2017 — "The Army Cyber Command, the Army Cyber Institute at West Point and the Army Cyber Center of Excellence have begun the work of developing a ready cyber force dedicated to offensive and defensive cyber operations. The Army — alongside its sister services — has devoted significant resources, starting with people. The skills required for those who... MORE

Cyber Threat Reports 01 Feb - 15 Feb 2017
February 15, 2017 — Army Cyber Institute Cyber Threat Report Tech Trends: Stories and Highlights Net Neutrality uncertainty worries IT Pros. Ultra-compact positioning module. Hamas uses fake facebook profiles to target IDF with Cyber Attacks. Army & IBM head to the Cloud. Swedish forces exposed to extensive cyber attack.READ MORE MORE

Innovation and Adaptation in Jihadist Digital Security
February 1, 2017 — The importance of the internet to contemporary jihadists as a tool for recruitment, propaganda and operational planning is well established. Less thoroughly studied are the ways in which jihadists work to keep this activity secure from monitoring and disruption, and in particular the ways in which they innovate and adapt to changes in the... MORE

Cyber Threat Report 16 Jan - 31 Jan 2017
January 31, 2017 — Army Cyber Institute Cyber Threat Report Tech Trends: Stories and Highlights Symantec revokes faulty security certificates. Increased use of behavioral analytics. Driverless future won't start with driverless cars. GitHub secret key finder released to public. Mobile hacking firm Cellebrite confirms server breach. Read More in the READ MORE MORE