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On June 17, 2010, researchers at VirusBlokAda, an anti-virus software company in Belarus, published a report (.pdf) on a trojan which was specifically designed to target process conrol server software (commonly referred to as SCADA software) used in critical infrastructure. Further work by Frank Boldewin uncovered a snippet of code (figure 2) which specifically calls the Siemens WinCC SCADA system (figure 1).
Figure 1: Siemens software targeted in this attack
Figure 2: WinCC Code Snippet
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Unlike the United States, the European Union and other Western nations, Russian and Chinese military writers generally do not use the term “Cyber Warfare”, preferring “Information Warfare” or “Informatized Warfare” instead. This is a significant difference; understanding it may better inform those who are still struggling to fit the round peg of Cyber Warfare into the square hole of the Western way of war.
As our nation honors the many sacrifices made by those who have died in service to our country, it occurred to me that there is one trans-formative principal understood by combat veterans that could re-vitalize our moribund Congress and White House.
