Russia’s opening cyber salvo was clearly tied to their war planning. They seem to have used wipers to go after gov, mil and comms systems to degrade Ukraine’s defense capacity. And the attack on KA-SAT was related to Ukrainian military capacity as well. These sorts of attacks are very much in line with the traditional […]
cyber is what threat actors make of it
A war of ideas where you have the wrong starting assumptions is going to be a costly war. — thaddeus e. grugq (@thegrugq) November 18, 2021 Currently I’m reading “War from the ground up” which is about a lot of things, but one concept is that war is not a universal interpretive device on its […]
Iran’s Lame Cyber Aspirations Revealed
A brief discussion of this report from Sky News on some Iranian cyber research reports. https://news.sky.com/story/irans-secret-cyber-files-on-how-cargo-ships-and-petrol-stations-could-be-attacked-12364871 This reports are clearly first stage fact-finding and brainstorming, the very earliest stage of capability development. They reveal only initial cursory preliminary analysis of potential vulnerabilities to exploit for cyber effects operations. Comprehensive actual hands-on testing of the target […]