The United States has no clear military policy about how the nation might respond to a cyberattack on its communications, financial or power networks, a panel of scientists and policy advisers warned Wednesday, and the country needs to clarify both its offensive capabilities and how it would respond to such attacks.The report, based on a three-year study by a panel assembled by the National Academy of Sciences, is the first major effort to look at the military use of computer technologies as weapons. The potential use of such technologies offensively has been widely discussed in recent years, and disruptions of communications systems and Web sites have become a standard occurrence in both political and military conflicts since 2000.
http://nytimes.com/2009/04/30/science/30cyber.htmlU.S. Plans Attack and Defense in Cyberspace Warfare
When American forces in Iraq wanted to lure members of Al Qaeda into a trap, they hacked into one of the group’s computers and altered information that drove them into American gun sights.
http://nytimes.com/2009/04/28/us/28cyber.htmlReport: U.S. needs policy for attacking foreign networks
The U.S. government lacks adequate rules of engagement for attacking the computer networks of adversaries, creating huge legal and policy questions that must be addressed, including the role that Congress should play in authorizing such use of force, according to a new report released today.”Today’s policy and legal framework for guiding and regulating the U.S. use of cyberattack is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain,” concludes the 322-page report, issued by the National Research Council, a congressionally chartered nonpartisan research group. “The U.S. government should have a clear, transparent, and inclusive decision-making structure in place to decide how, when, and why a cyberattack will be conducted,” the report recommends.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090429_8883.phpReport: US cyber warfare needs oversight, debate [AP]
Shrouded in secrecy, the U.S. government’s policies on how and when to wage cyber warfare are ill-formed, lack adequate oversight and require a broad public debate, a new report by the National Research Council says.The report warns that the “undeveloped and uncertain nature” of the government’s cyber warfare policies could lead to them being used hastily and ill-advisedly during a crisis. That danger is compounded by secrecy and lack of oversight, the report’s authors cautioned on Wednesday.
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news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/report-us-cyber-warfare-needs-oversight-debate-20090430-anjt.htmlPanel Calls for National Dialog on Gov’t Cyberattacks [IDG]
The U.S. needs to engage in a national dialog about its government’s use of cyberattacks against other nations, and the government lacks a comprehensive policy about how and when it will engage in cyberwarfare, a new study said.The U.S. government also lacks a person or office to coordinate cyberattacks, and agencies making attacks should regularly brief the U.S. Congress about their efforts, said the report, from a panel of military, diplomatic, legal and IT security experts assembled by the National Research Council, a nonprofit organization that provides policy advice to the U.S. government.
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