Cyber War news from FierceGovernmentIT

A new strategy for military spending unveiled Jan. 5 by President Obama at a Pentagon press conference calls on the Pentagon to, among other things, work with international allies on securing Read more...

A provision of the fiscal 2012 national defense authorization bill says the military may conduct offensive cyberspace operations subject to the same principles the Defense Department uses for kinetic Read more...

Many commonly-held policy assumptions about cyberspace are wrong, said James Andrew Lewis, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' technology and public policy program, during Read more...

The Air Force must subject cyber capabilities to legal review for compliance with the Law of Armed Conflict and other international and domestic laws, says an order from the secretary of the Air Read more...

Hyperbole over the term "cyber attack" has led to a misapprehension that they are frequent, says James Andrew Lewis, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' technology and Read more...

What constitutes an attack in the cyber domain that would warrant a U.S. response is not vastly different from other military domains, said Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn during a press Read more...

The United States is strengthening cyber ties with Russia in the hopes that active diplomacy and international technical collaboration will reduce the overall risk to national networks, said Howard Read more...

Recent phishing attacks against high profile targets--such as White House officials and the International Monetary Fund--have put this particular cyber attack back in the public consciousness. Read more...

Cyber warfare cannot compensate for weaknesses in other instruments of power, says a new paper from a Naval War College professor. Cyber attacks have a reputation of aiding weak states in possible Read more...

The federal government should take on a more proactive role, nationally and internationally, in cybersecurity, urges a new report from the Center for a New American Security. The report, first online Read more...