DefenceTalkUS Army cyber defenders released code to help detect and understand cyber attacks. The forensic analysis code called Dshell has been used, for nearly five years, as a framework to help the U.S. Army understand the events of compromises of Department of Defense networks. A version of Dshell was added to the GitHub social coding […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-cyber-defenders-open-source-code-in-new-github-project-62482/

DefenceTalkAttacks on power plants, telecommunications and financial systems, even turning all of Los Angeles’ traffic lights green: Davos elites were warned Saturday of the terrifying possibilities of modern cyber terrorism. Eugene Kaspersky, who heads the Kaspersky Lab security group, said the possibilities of individuals being hacked would only increase in future as more devices, such […]https://www.defencetalk.com/davos-elites-warned-about-catastrophic-cyberattacks-62215/

DefenceTalkNavy Adm. Michael S. Rogers, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, or USCYBERCOM, and director of the National Security Agency, addressed staff and faculty during the first Leadership Professional Development series event of 2015, Jan. 9. During his remarks, Rogers thanked the audience for their commitment to the Army and leadership. “You are building the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-cyber-command-nsa-commander-discusses-state-of-cyber-efforts-62030/

DefenceTalkCybersecurity is critical to protecting Army systems from sophisticated attacks on military networks in the face of ever increasing importance of cyber systems. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has established a Collaborative Research Alliance, or CRA, which will include an alliance of ARL, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, academia and industry researchers […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-announces-cybersecurity-collaborative-research-alliance-to-explore-underlying-cyber-science-49390/

DefenceTalkA separate branch dedicated to cyber warfare is being created in the Russian Armed Forces as the Internet could become a new “theater of war” in the near future, a senior Russian military R&D official said. “Cyber space is becoming our priority…the decision to create a cyber-security command and a new branch of the armed […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-military-creating-cyber-warfare-branch-48814/