Dear Friends,
I was recently interviewed in the studios of Eesti Raadio for BBC’s Digital Planet, which airs globally each week on the BBC World Service.
I spoke on what I saw and heard at the recent NATO conference on Cyberwarfare in Tallinn.
Download the MP3 here.
More from BBC here.
Nart Villeneuve, “Tracking GhostNet”:
One of our staff has been working with Tibetian communnities for 10 years.
Art of investigation: raise more questions than answers. This is good, as we have limitations.
Data is hard to come by. Organizations are not generally willing to collect their data or provide you with samples of malicious files, you have to cultivate sources, and earn trust (within NGO community).
We hear a lot of news coverage, they’re often incomplete, with little to no data. (09h11 Tallinn time)
Sometimes there might be political events associated with the attacks.
We fully explore alternative explanations
We try to explore avenues that would try to explain why we’re seeing these types of attacks.
Read more“Liveblogging the CCDCOE conference, Tallinn (Day 2 / June 18)”
Kenneth Geers, American representative to CCDCOE:
– Even if you took a tank or a jet fighter, you could hardly count the number of processors on it.
– Next year US military will have more unmanned than manned aircraft
– It’s not just about vulnerability and exploit — but where does that meet national security? All presentations, have elements that speak to why nat’l security planners would find it interesting.
– This is the best city to host this event. Has to do with historical factors, and accomplishments that Estonia has been able to achieve.
– It’s not surprising that Skype and COE comes from Estonia. (08h40 Tallinn time)
– Mikko and Nart’s talks have been swapped for today/tmrw.
Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian Minister of Defense:
– Everybody in this room believes that cyber conflicts are here to stay.
– SK military reported 2 days ago that they are suffering 95,000 attacks daily
– This week the Estonian and US presidents met in Washington and our mutual efforts to gain back lost ground
– Cyberattacks against Georgia were a sequel to an aggresive attack against Estonia in 2007
– Cybersecurity is a political issue and it does not need any more advetising. It’s time for action.
Read more“Liveblogging the CCDCOE conference, Tallinn (Day 1 / June 17)”
