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Zoran Milkovski<br>
Zoran Milkovski<br>
Stef Cobelens<br>
Stef Cobelens<br>
Bjorn Warsosemito<br>


===Questions===
[[01.What is the infrastructure of the Internet?]]<br>
[[02.What are the limitations or vulnerabilities of the Internet?]]<br>
[[03.What is the Internet 2?]]<br>
[[04.What are the demographics of the Internet?]]<br>
[[05.What are the most common ways of accessing the Internet?]]<br>
[[06.What is the e-government?]]<br>
[[07.What is a virtual community?]]<br>
[[08.What are government databases?]]<br>
[[09.What is computer surveillance/massive surveillance?]]<br>
[[10.What is hacktivism and Internet activism?]]<br>
[[11.What is cyber-terrorism?]]<br>
[[12.Wich major events of cyber-warefare/cyber-terrorism have happened in the past?]]<br>
[[13.What is malicious software?]]<br>
[[14.What is e-money?]]<br>
[[15.What is the Internet privacy?]]<br>
[[16.What is the Internet censorship?]]<br>
[[17.What kind of devices can be connected to the Internet?]]<br>


-Stef<br>
[[Initial questions]]
[[19. What is warfare?]]<br>
[[20. What is Cyber-space?]]<br>
[[21. What is Information warfare?]]<br>
[[22. What are the standard preventive security measures against a cyber attack?]]<br>
[[23. What is Cyber-crime?]]<br>
[[24. What kind of damage can a cyber-attack do?]]<br>
[[25. Which kind people are involved in cyber-warfare?]]<br>
[[26. What are the three aspects of security?]]<br>
[[27. What is a firewall?]]<br>
[[28. What is a botnet?]]<br>
[[29. What is a DDoS attack?]]<br>


===Driving forces===
-Political-<br>
#[[International conflicts]]<br>
#[[Cyberspace domination]]<br>


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-Economic-<br>
-Zoran<br>
#[[Information costs]]<br>
[[30. Cyber warfare, crime, terrorism or full-scale war?<br>]]
#[[Affordability of cyber-warfare]]<br>
[[31. Can cyber warfare have serious consequences like the Manhattan project or 9/11?<br>]]
 
[[32. Vigilantes in the Cyberspace?<br>]]
-Technological-<br>
[[33. Government plans for cyber warfare (defensive and offensive strategy)?<br>]]
#[[Security systems]]<br>
[[34. Shifts in battlefields locations?<br>]]
#[[Offensive weapons (virusses/worms/hackers)]]<br>
[[35. Spies in the cyberspace?<br>]]
#[[Dominant platforms (hardware/software)]]<br>
[[36. Cyber warfare as a propaganda machine?<br>]]
 
[[37. Motivated cyber riots?<br>]]
-Resources & Environmental-<br>
[[38. Privately vs. Government vs. Individual attacks?<br>]]
#[[The issue of critical systems coming online]]<br>
[[39. Possibility for systematically targeted attacks in disabling a whole country?<br>]]
 
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===System Diagram===
-Stefan<br>
http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Image:SystemDiagram_CyberWarfare.pdf
40. What are the different categories of cyber warfare?
 
41. Who are the big players now? <br>
===Scenarios===
41. Who are the emerging players? <br>
[[The first W.A.R.]]<br>
42. Which are the leading research institutes for cyber warfare technologies? <br>
[[Rotten from within]]<br>
43. Current trends of cyber weapons development? <br>
[[And life goes on]]<br>
44. Official policies for cyber warefare and budgets? <br>
 
45. Hotzones and current cyber warfare conflicts? <br>
===Resources===
46. What are the legislations for cyber warfare? <br>
http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2001/0104-04.htm<br>
47. Are there any international treaties regarding cyber warfare? <br>
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/cyberwarfare.html<br>
48. How cyber warfare is recognized by international bodies? <br>
http://www.wired.com/search?query=cyber+warfare&siteAlias=all&x=292&y=24<br>
49. When and how cyber warfare started? <br>
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/cyberwar.html<br>
50. Costs of cyber warfare? <br>
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/cat_cyberwarfare.html<br>
 
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Latest revision as of 15:52, 16 July 2008

Group Members

Giorgos Valaouras
Stefan Zhelyazkov
Zoran Milkovski
Stef Cobelens


Initial questions

Driving forces

-Political-

  1. International conflicts
  2. Cyberspace domination

-Economic-

  1. Information costs
  2. Affordability of cyber-warfare

-Technological-

  1. Security systems
  2. Offensive weapons (virusses/worms/hackers)
  3. Dominant platforms (hardware/software)

-Resources & Environmental-

  1. The issue of critical systems coming online

System Diagram

http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/index.php/Image:SystemDiagram_CyberWarfare.pdf

Scenarios

The first W.A.R.
Rotten from within
And life goes on

Resources

http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2001/0104-04.htm
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/cyberwarfare.html
http://www.wired.com/search?query=cyber+warfare&siteAlias=all&x=292&y=24
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/cyberwar.html
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/cat_cyberwarfare.html


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