Anglo-Americans at Cyberwar: Two Weeks of Cupcakes

By: emptywheel Saturday June 11, 2011 10:06 am

I’ve been meaning to return to this Ellen Nakashima story on our cyberwar efforts. As you recall, it lays out the turf war between the CIA and DOD over clandestine cyberops, partly by telling the story a fight over whether or not to disrupt the jihadist online magazine “Inspire.” Last year, for instance, U.S. intelligence [...]

Stuxnet: A Way to Nuke Iran without Using a Bomb?

By: emptywheel Monday January 31, 2011 10:32 am

Last week, Russian Ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, told the organization that the computer worm Israel and the US devised to ruin Iran’s nuclear program could have led to a catastrophe with the Bushehr nuclear plant like Chernobyl. Russia said on Wednesday that NATO should investigate last year’s computer virus attack on a Russian-built nuclear [...]

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