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Articles in this issue are:

1.         Al-Qaeda’s Online Forums Go Dark for Extended Period
2.         Debate Rages over Hacking Jihadist Websites
3.         Electric Dragons – Airborne Electronic Warfare Capabilities in China
4.         ‘Azerbaijan Actively Joined Information Warfare’
5.         Cyber War Will Not Take Place
6.         Designer Satellite Collisions from Covert Cyber War
7.         Al Hurra: An Eye on Democracy
8.         U.S. Navy Focus Shifts To Asia-Pacific
9.         What does #NTVlies Really Mean?
10.       Global Briefing: Russian Politics Moves Online
11.       Zombie Followers and Fake Re-Tweets
12.       The Anatomy of a Coup Rumour
13.       The Inconvenient Astrologer of MI5
14.       We Can Hear You Thugs
15.       US And China Engage In Cyber War Games

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Articles in this issue:

1.      U.S. ‘Info Ops’ Programs Dubious, Costly
2.      Conference Expects Slow Transition to Laser Weapons
3.      US Army Warns About The Risks Of Geotagging
4.      The 2006 “Divorce” of US Army Reserve and Active Component Psychological Operations Units – A Re-Examination
5.      Cyber Snoopers Target NATO Commander in Facebook Attack
6.      China, U.S. Chase Air-to-Air Cyberweapon
7.      BBC Persian Service Suffers Sophisticated Cyber Attack
8.      More Satellites Means More SATCOM Gridlock
9.      Historic Cyber Unit Begins Daily Action
10.     Syria E-Mail Hack Points to New Level Of “Information War”
11.     Three Little Pigs As Exposed by News and Social Media
12.     Tweeting the Taliban: Social Media’s Role in 21st Century Propaganda
13.     Fort Campbell’s 101st Combat Aviation Brigade uses Electronic Warfare to help Soldiers on the Ground
14.     Russia Considering Cyber-Security Command
15.     Cybersecurity, Marine Corps Style
16.     The Coming Cyberwar with Iran?
17.     China’s Twitter War
18.     Cyber and Drone Attacks May Change Warfare More Than the Machine Gun
19.     Giant Telco Banned Due To Cyber Attack Concerns
20.     SecAF: Cyberspace is an Air Force priority
21.     Taliban Offers Online Questions and Answers
22.     Should US Worry About North Korea’s Cyber Attack Capability?
23.     ‘Every Major Company in The U.S. Has Been Hacked By China’: Cyber-Espionage Warning From U.S Security Chief Who Warned Of 9/11

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This newsletter covers December and January.  Articles included are:

1.      9th Annual Army Global Information Operations Conference
2.      A Speed Bump for Pentagon’s Information Ops
3.      Special Forces Get Social in New Psychological Operation Plan
4.      Hazards of Perception Management
5.      Does Social Media Help or Hurt Terrorism?
6.      All Quiet on the Western Front
7.      Who sent a false text message saying cash benefits will no longer be paid to Iranians?
8.      Cyberspat Erupts As Baku-Tehran Relations Become Increasingly Strained
9.      SPAWAR Recognizes Space Cadre at Information Dominance Warfare Officer Pinning Ceremony
10.     In the Middle East, Cyberattacks Are Flavored with Political Rhetoric
11.     SCADA Systems in Railways Vulnerable to Attack
12.     Twitter Able To Censor Tweets in Individual Countries
13.     Taliban Folklore in Pakistani Media
14.     Iran Mounts New Web Crackdown
15.     Call For Cyberwar ‘Peacekeepers’
16.     The Strategic Communication of Unmanned Warfare
17.     57% Believe a Cyber Arms Race is Currently Taking Place, Reveals McAfee-Sponsored Cyber Defense Report
18.     In Battle for Hearts And Minds, Taliban Turn To CDs
19.     Can U.S. Deter Cyber War?
20.     Supremacy in cyberspace: Obama’s ‘Star Wars’?
21.     Chinese Tech Giant Aids Iran
22.     China Likely to Go Asymmetric if Conflict Breaks out with United States

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IO Newsletter Vol 10 No 06

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Issues in this article (24):

1.       Service Members Bring Electronic Warfare to the Ground in Iraq

2.       The Truth Is Out There: Responding To Insurgent Disinformation and Deception Operations

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Articles in this issue

1.       Air Force Cyber-security Unit Prepares Operations

2.       It’s Like Slate for Terrorists

3.       Anatomy of a Cyber-Espionage Attack, likely by the Chinese Military

4.       Military leaders accelerate C4ISR integration

5.       Cold war enemies Russia and China launch a cyber attack every day

6.       New report says ‘cyber warfare’ has become a reality

7.       Cyberwar: Can the Government Adapt?

8.       Debate Continues Over Cyber Protection, NSA Role

9.       An introduction to the FBI’s anti-cyber crime network

10.     NSA Official Addresses AFCEA Solutions Conference

11.     NSA To Build $1.5 Billion Cybersecurity Data Center

12.     NSA’s Public Relations Spinmeisters

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Articles in this issue

1.         How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade

2.         Civilization’s High Stakes Cyber-Struggle: Q&A Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.)

3.         Academy Explores Expanding Cyberwarfare Training

4.         Directive Number 9

5.         YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer

6.         Air Force ISR, EW To Stay Independent

7.         China’s military says website had 2.3 million attacks

8.         Intelligence Ops Greatest Chinese Threat to U.S.

9.         Congressional commission focuses on China’s cyberwar capability

10.       NSA Iraqi Computer Attacks and U.S. Defense

11.       South Korean Military Cyber Command Announced

12.       As Smart Grid Expands, So Does Vulnerability to Cyber Attacks

13.       Recent Air Force Law Review Discusses Cyberlaw

14.       Taliban Out-Surging Us in Information War

15.       NK Developing Another Deadly Weapon: Hackers

16.       Secret agents fight a cyber attack on Britain every day

17.       Lessons from the Estonian cyber-attacks

18.       War From Cyberspace

19.       On the imminent Cyber Warfare, what’s Ghana’s preparedness?

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