Oso Mocoso
15 Aug 2008, 06:21 PM
I checked my public-facing email today, and I noticed I was getting a LOT less spam than normal. Usually I get a few hundred spam emails a day. It's fallen way off recently. Then I saw this story:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/georgia-takes-a-beating-in-the-cyberwar-with-russia/
They point out that cyberwarfare can be very costly for a target country, and these sort of attacks are quite inexpensive to finance. They said that Russia could fund an entire cyber-campaign for about the same price as changing the treads on one tank. It's not the first time they've done something like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia_Cyberwar
Here's a lecture about what the Estonian I.S. team learned during the first Russian cyberattack. The guy giving the lecture is Gadi Evron. I liked his talk. It was the first time I'd really heard much about this topic.
http://media.blackhat.com/bh-usa-07/audio/2007_BlackHat_Vegas-V50-Evron-Estonia-Information_Warfare.mp3
So I guess all the Russian spambots are too busy beating up Georgia to try to sell us V1@gra. :)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/georgia-takes-a-beating-in-the-cyberwar-with-russia/
They point out that cyberwarfare can be very costly for a target country, and these sort of attacks are quite inexpensive to finance. They said that Russia could fund an entire cyber-campaign for about the same price as changing the treads on one tank. It's not the first time they've done something like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia_Cyberwar
Here's a lecture about what the Estonian I.S. team learned during the first Russian cyberattack. The guy giving the lecture is Gadi Evron. I liked his talk. It was the first time I'd really heard much about this topic.
http://media.blackhat.com/bh-usa-07/audio/2007_BlackHat_Vegas-V50-Evron-Estonia-Information_Warfare.mp3
So I guess all the Russian spambots are too busy beating up Georgia to try to sell us V1@gra. :)