| Chapter 7 – |
Information Warfare |
Seymour Bosworth
Chapter Contents:
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7.1 |
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Introduction
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7.2 |
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Vulnerabilities
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7.2.1 |
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Critical Infrastructure
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7.2.2 |
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Off-the-Shelf Software
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7.2.3 |
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Dissenting Views
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7.2.4 |
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Rebuttal
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7.3 |
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Goals and Objectives
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7.3.1 |
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Infrastructure
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7.3.2 |
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Military
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7.3.3 |
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Government
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7.3.4 |
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Transportation
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7.3.4.1 |
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Aviation
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7.3.4.2 |
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Railroads
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7.3.4.3 |
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Trucking
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7.3.4.4 |
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Shipping
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7.3.4.5 |
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Other Transportation Vulnerabilities
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7.3.5 |
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Commerce
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7.3.6 |
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Financial Disruptions
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7.3.6.1 |
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Payment Systems
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7.3.6.2 |
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Investment Mechanisms
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7.3.6.3 |
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Banking
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7.3.7 |
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Medical Security
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7.3.8 |
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Law Enforcement
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7.3.9 |
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International and Corporate Espionage
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7.3.10 |
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Communications
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7.3.11 |
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Destabilization of Economic Infrastructure
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7.4 |
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Sources of Threats and Attacks
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7.4.1 |
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Nation-States
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7.4.1.1 |
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China and Information Warfare
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7.4.1.2 |
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Strategies
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7.4.1.3 |
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Training
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7.4.2 |
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Cyberterrorists
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7.4.3 |
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Corporations
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7.4.4 |
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Activists
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7.4.5 |
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Criminals
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7.4.6 |
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Hobbyists
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7.5 |
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Weapons of Cyberwar
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7.5.1 |
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Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service
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7.5.2 |
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Malicious Code
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7.5.3 |
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Cryptography
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7.5.4 |
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Psychological Operations
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7.5.5 |
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Physical Attacks
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7.5.6 |
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Biological and Chemical Weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction
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7.5.7 |
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Weapons Inadvertently Provided
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7.6 |
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Defenses
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7.6.1 |
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Legal Defenses
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7.6.2 |
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Forceful Defenses
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7.6.3 |
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Technical Defenses
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7.6.4 |
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In-Kind Counterattacks
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7.6.5 |
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Cooperative Efforts
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7.7 |
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Summary
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7.8 |
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Further Reading
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7.9 |
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Notes
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