South Korea has decided to take the help of China for the current investigations into the cyber attacks that had targeted government and financial websites across South Korea and the United States in the month of July this year. The attacks that had crippled these websites have been blamed on the North Korean Ministry of [...]

Research and Development Corporation or RAND in its recent report on cyber terrorism, has stated that the United States’ best option as of now to avoid a cyber attack on its infrastructure is to keep it cyber anti-terrorism efforts on the defensive, instead of searching for offensive opportunities.
The U.S has already designated a special military [...]

Last week South Korea and the United States experienced near simultaneous cyber attacks that crippled some of the most high profile portals, financial institutions and government agencies’ websites. At that moment, the attacks seemed to be aimed at crippling the infrastructure and were believed not be aimed at stealing information.
Today, South Korean police officials announced [...]

The Obama administration is finalizing the creation within the Pentagon of a new unit called Cyber Command, dedicated to ensuring the security of computer networks of the United States military that have been, of late, threatened by the intrusion of hackers linked especially to countries such as China and Russia.
Most likely to be at the [...]

U.S. and China are up against each other in what could be the new Cold War. This is despite their rather functional economic relations. The latest chapter in these two superpowers’ struggle for global hegemony involves the Pentagon’s report that warns about China’s military rise.
The report, currently causing considerable diplomatic friction between Washington and Beijing, [...]