Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace 2018 – Economic cyber espionage will only get worse, ODNI report says
“In the 2011 report to Congress on Foreign Spies Stealing U.S. Economic Secrets in Cyberspace, the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive provided a baseline assessment of the many dangers facing the U.S. research, development, and manufacturing sectors when operating in cyberspace, the pervasive threats posed by foreign intelligence services and other threat actors, and the industries and technologies most likely at risk of espionage. The 2018 report provides additional insight into the most pervasive nation-state threats [emphasis added], and it includes a detailed breakout of the industrial sectors and technologies judged to be of highest interest to threat actors. It also discusses several potentially disruptive threat trends that warrant close attention…”
When your Uber driver is a spy
Bodies are unruly sites for politics," says Merve Emre. "Between the body and the political lies a vastly mediated world where belief and behavior do not always overlap" Alien Behaviour
- See also – With hacking of U.S. utilities, Russia could move from cyberespionage toward cyberwar – “Even before the revelation on 23 July that Russian government hackers had penetrated the computer systems of U.S. electric utilities and could have caused blackouts, government agencies and electricity industry leaders were working to protect U.S. customers and society as a whole. These developments highlight an important distinction of conflict in cyberspace: between probing and attacking. The distinction between exploiting weaknesses to gather information – also known as “intelligence preparation of the battlefield” – and using those vulnerabilities to actually do damage is impossibly thin and depends on the intent of the people doing it. Intentions are notoriously difficult to figure out. In global cyberspace they may change depending on world events and international relations. The dangers – to the people of the United States and other countries both allied and opposed – underscore the importance of international agreement on what constitutes an act of war in cyberspace and the need for clear rules of engagement…”
- See also Axios Special report: America’s greatest threat is a hurricane-force cyberattack
- See also WSJ.com (paywall) U.S. Officials Push New Penalties for Hackers of Electrical Grid – Red line set for cyberattacks on infrastructure after Russian agents penetrated utility control room
- See also Axios – When we asked America’s foremost intelligence experts what keeps them up at night, one response came up over and over again: the risk of a crippling cyberattack.
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Crisis Retrospective. Brace yourself for lots of words, not much insight, and more than you want to see in the way of blame-shifting. Nevertheless…
Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade New York Magazine. A lot of perspectives, including Shiela Bair, Stephanie Kelton, and your humble blogger! Although you can tell I have goneferal, my manner of speaking to the reporter was audibly colloquial rather than elite-speak.
