On July 25 1999, the London Sunday Times reported that American officials believe Russia may have stolen some of the U.S.’s most sensitive military secrets (including weapons guidance systems and naval intelligence codes) in a concerted espionage offensive. The theft was accomplished using computer hacking techniques and reportedly motivated Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre to note that “we are in the middle of a cyber war.”
At the same time, defense journals across America are printing a veritable endless stream of articles about the decrepit state of Russia’s armed forces. It cannot house its officers or pay them in a timely and adequate fashion and the armed forces are crime-ridden and underfed, according to these reports.
Yet Russia allegedly can successfully attack and access America’s most secretive defense files? Why is there such a disparity in the apparent information age capabilities of a country with limited information technological assets and an armed force in a poor state of readiness?
[2000]
Russian View on Information War
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/Russianvuiw.htm
[2001]
Attitudes towards computer hacking in Russia
http://www.cs.kau.se/~stefan/IW/CC_4-5.pdf
Cyberwarfare: An Analysis of the Mean and Motivations of Selected Nation States
http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/docs/cyberwarfare.pdf
Inside Russia's Hacking Culture
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/03/42346
Russian organized crime, Russian hacking, and US. security
http://www.cert.org/research/isw/isw2001/papers/Williams-06-09.pdf
[2002]
Russia and the Information Revolution
http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/2005/IP229.pdf
[2004]
Comparing US, Russian and Chinese IO Concepts
http://www.dodccrp.org/events/2004_CCRTS/CD/papers/064.pdf
Russian and ChineseInformation Warfare: Theory and Practice
http://www.dodccrp.org/events/2004_CCRTS/CD/presentations/064.pdf
[2005]
Hacking in a Foreign Language: A Network Security Guide to Russia
http://web.archive.org/web/20050407230309/http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-05/bh-eu-05-geers-up.pdf
Russia: Organized Cybercrime
http://dc214.defcon.org/notes/june_2005/dc214_sn_orgcrime.ppt.
Organized Crime and the Rule of Law in the Russian Federation
http://projects.essex.ac.uk/ehrr/V2N1/Orlova.pdf
[2006]
Access to Information in Russia
http://www.transparency.org.ru/doc/ACCESS_TO_INFORMATION_IN_RUSSIA_2006_01252_6.doc
[2007]
Cyber Attacks on Estonia - Short Synopsis
http://doubleshotsecurity.com/pdf/NANOG-eesti.pdf
Estonia vs. Russia - The DDOS War
http://www.cis.uab.edu/forensics/blog/Estonian.DDOS.pdf
Estonian Cyber Attacks 2007
http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-11/slides/aaf/Estonia_cyber_attacks_2007_latest.pdf
Global Threat Research Report: Russia
http://www.verisign.com/static/042139.pdf
Lessons Learned from the Russian-Estonian Cyber-Conflict
http://lacnic.net/documentos/ixp/woodcock-caso_estonia.pdf
Russian Business Network Study
http://www.bizeul.org/files/RBN_study.pdf
Russian plans for development of Information Society
http://blog.icann.org/2007/10/russian-plans-for-development-of-information-society/
Tracking the Russian Business Network
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/seminars/archive/slides/2007-12-11.pdf
Webwar One: The Botnet Attack on Estonia
http://www.wired.com/images/press/pdf/webwarone.pdf
[2008]
An In-Depth Look at the Georgia-Russia Cyber Conflict of 2008
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/uploads/Shadowserver/BTF8_RU_GE_DDOS.pdf
Cyberattacks against Georgia: Legal Lessons Identified
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/DIME/documents/Georgia%201%200.pdf
Estonia: Information Warfare and Lessons Learned
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/nis/docs/largescaleattacksdocs/s5_gadi_evron.pdf
Political DDOS: Estonia and Beyond
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec08/tech/slides/nazario-slides.pdf
Propaganda, Information War and the Estonian-Russian Treaty Relations: Some Aspects of International Law
http://www.juridicainternational.eu/public/pdf/ji_2008_2_154.pdf
Russia: Economics, not Mafia fuel Malware
http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/reports/sage_russia_2008.pdf
Russia/Georgia Cyber War – Findings and Analysis
http://blog.refractal.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2i7t2qyiwv0g63e7l3g.pdf
Russian Cyberwar on Georgia
http://georgiaupdate.gov.ge/doc/10006881/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20CYBERWAR%20short%20version_111008.pdf
The Information Revolution and Information Security Problems in Russia
http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/iosphere/08special/iosphere_special08_tsygichko.pdf
[2009]
Cybercrime Attribution: An Eastern European Case Study
http://igneous.scis.ecu.edu.au/proceedings/2009/forensics/McCombie_Pieprzyk_Watters.pdf
Dmitry Samosseiko's Partnerka paper
http://www.sophos.com/security/technical-papers/samosseiko-vb2009-paper.pdf
Estonia: Cyberwarfare, the truth in a real case
http://www.ida.liu.se/~TDDD17/oldprojects/2009/projects/007.pdf
Fighting Russian Cybercrime Mobsters: Report from the Trenches
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/ALPEROVITCH/BHUSA09-Alperovitch-RussCybercrime-PAPER.pdf
Financial cybercrime and Russian networks: Aprospective analysis
http://www.lexsi.com/ressources/contentimages/subcnt2904.pdf
From Russia with love.exe - Underground Hacking Forums from Former East Bloc
http://www.seacure.it/archive/2009/stuff/Seacure2009FyodorYarochkin-FromRussiaWithLove.pdf
Georgia’s Cyber Left Hook
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/Articles/08winter/korns.pdf
Identifying, Exploring, and Predicting Threats in the Russian Hacker Community
http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-17/dc-17-presentations/defcon-17-thomas_holt-russian_hackers.pdf
Impact of Alleged Russian Cyber Attacks
http://www.bdcol.ee/files/files/documents/Research/BSDR2009/1_%20Ashmore%20-%20Impact%20of%20Alleged%20Russian%20Cyber%20Attacks%20.pdf
Overview by the US Cyber Consequences Unit of the cyber campaign against Georgia in August of 2008
http://www.registan.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/US-CCU-Georgia-Cyber-Campaign-Overview.pdf
Regional Overview on Child Sexual Abuse Images through the Use of
ICT in Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine
http://www.ecpat.net/EI/Publications/Journals/Regional_Overview.pdf
The Bear Went Through the Mountain: Russia: Appraises its Five-Day War in South Ossetia
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/thru-the-mountain.pdf
The Economic Influence of Russian Organized Crime
http://policy-traccc.gmu.edu/resources/publications/studentforum/Willingham_ROCPowerpoint FINAL.pdf
[2010]
A Russian Strategist's Take On Information Warfare
http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives/2010/03/today_id_like_t.html;jsessionid=TZEJN2SQWCBSZQE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN
Control and Subversion in Russian Cyberspace *)
http://www.access-controlled.net/wp-content/PDFs/chapter-2.pdf
Emerging Cyber Threat and Russian Views on Information Warfare and Information Operations
http://www2.foi.se/rapp/foir2970.pdf
Incident Assessment Report: 2008 Russia-Georgia “Cyberwar”
https://evals.ugs.utah.edu/uploadedFiles/Example-CTAP-IAR.pdf
Russia's Cyber Security Plans
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/25050/
Russia, the United States and Cyber Diplomacy: Opening the Doors
http://www.ewi.info/system/files/USRussiaCyber_WEB.pdf
Russian & Ukrainian Cybercrime in Australia
http://www.aic.gov.au/events/aic upcoming events/2010/~/media/conferences/2010-isoc/presentations/mccombie.pdf
Russian Information Warfare Theory: The Consequences of August 2008http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?ots591=0c54e3b3-1e9c-be1e-2c24-a6a8c7060233&lng=en&ots627=fce62fe0-528d-4884-9cdf-283c282cf0b2&id=118969
Russian Intelligence Gathering for Domestic R&D – Short Cut or Dead End for Modernisation?
http://www.foi.se/upload/Nyhetsbilder/FOI%20Memo%20Russian%20Intelligence%20and%20RandD%20-%20April%202010.pdf
Russian Targets of Cybercrime
http://www.solnet.com.pe/pdf/Joe_Stewart-dlp-russia-2010.pdf
Trying to Understand Russian Criminal Groups (RCGs)
http://www.aic.gov.au/events/aic%20upcoming%20events/2010/~/media/conferences/2010-isoc/presentations/burger.pdf
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