In terms of cyber attacks and cyber defence, one must say:
It's easy to feel for sorry America, watching so many vectored attacks, zooming in from all over the world, straight at America Here: http://map.ipviking.com Cheers, Stephen ---- On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:07:53 +1100 Tom Worthington wrote ---- > > On 28/01/15 22:07, Stephen Loosley wrote: >> >> Quoting: >> http://www.afr.com/p/technology/australia_launches_cyber_weapons_hR1B30qv3c6bYKJvquVzoO >> >> Australian Cyber Offensive ... >> >> ... more than a decade we have been building an offensive >> "computer network attack" (CNA) capability inside the Australian >> Signals Directorate (ASD) ... > > Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where > Professor Amin Saikal just said that the USA alone cannot defeat Islamic > State with air-strikes: > http://blog.tomw.net.au/2015/01/usa-alone-cannot-defeat-islamic-state.html > > Cyberwarfare would seem preferable to dropping bombs. I don't know about > ASD (and if I did know I couldn't tell you), but Northrop Grumman built > a "Cyber Range" for ADFA/UNSW Canberra: > http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/03/cloud-computing-at-northrop-grumman.html > > A "Cyber Range" is the equivalent of a bomb range, for testing cyber > weapons. The stated purpose of the ADFA one is training and research. > But if you wanted to test an offensive cyber warfare capability for the > Australian Defence Force, such a facility would be useful. > > Also all undergraduates at UNSWC are to be trained in cyber security, > commencing this year: > http://blog.tomw.net.au/2014/09/cyber-security-training-for-all-new.html > > UNSWC also has a "Australian Centre for Cyber Security" (ACCS): > http://www.accs.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ > > > -- > Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 > The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ > PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au > Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards > Legislation > > Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, > Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
