Way of protesting for people by doing politically-motivated
cyber attacks October 1989: first ever act of Hacktivism
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Created on 4Chan in 2003 Some of their actions are really
famous: 2008. DDoS against Church of scientology 2011. Support the
protests in Tunisia Hacked a Child Pornography server Hacked Paypal
to support Wikileaks 2012. Hacked Universal Music homepage after
the closure of megaupload
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Notorious for having hacked: -Sony the 23rd of May 2011
-Nintendo the 6th of June 2011 -The CIA the 15th of June 2011
Dissolved in 2011
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Politicaly motivated hacking done by a nation in order to spy
and affect another nations computers or networks
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Guy-Philippe Goldstein: How cyberattacks threaten real-world
peace (TED talk)
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DDoS & Botnet
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Worms
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Trojanhorse
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Spying Stealing informations Confuse Give false informations
Attack and destroy computers or facilities
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2007. DDoS attack against Estonia by Russia 2008. Georgias
networks are targeted during the Russia-Georgia war 2010. China
launches a lot of cyber attacks 2010. The virus Stuxnet is
discovered in Iran
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China is the first country that recognized the potential of
Cyber warfare Mainly spying and data theft, which is not aggressive
enough to trigger an official reaction Problem of Cyber warfare :
we cant know the origin of the attack for sure
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(2010)(2011)(2012)(2012) Stuxnet can manipulate engines in
facilities such as water pumps in nuclear plants The Stuxnet
project started in 2007, but was only noticed in 2010, and we only
knew in 2012 that the attack originated from the USA
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Stuxnet and the others source code is available online and can
be used again We still dont know for what purpose the other
programs were created, and what they do exactly
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Video of an engine under a cyber attack But all devices with a
wireless function can be hacked and used for malevolent ends
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Most of the softwares are made by private companies
(Microsoft), which are paying more attention to profit than
security Zero-day vulnerability windows can last up to seven years,
if its not forever ! People need to be more sensibilized
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Debate Time :
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What is the difference between Hacktivism and Cyber warfare ?
What is a (computer) worm ? What is a (trojan) horse ?
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Name three important events linked to Cyber warfare What was
the purpose of Stuxnet ? What is a zero-day vulnerability ?
