[BANANA] Berkeley Lab - Scientific Computing Seminar, November 2, 2006

[Parry Husbands]

Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: Building 50A-5132

Seminar Speaker: William A. Barletta
                  Department of Physics
                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                  Cambridge, MA

Title: Evolving Face of Cyber-conflict and Information Warfare

Abstract:

This seminar addresses the potential for organized malicious behavior
on the part of nation-states and non-governmental organizations and
networks against the social, economic, political, or military assets
and interests of local state and national governments involving
computerized information technologies. The object of the analysis does
not differentiate between cyber warfare and cyber terrorism as in both
cases a principle measure of merit for the attacker is the deleterious
effect on the objective of the attack rather than the proximate gain by
the miscreant a motivation that is the converse of the aim of the
cyber-criminal who seeks his own gain or gratification regardless of
the effects on the party attacked. Nonetheless, the technical
considerations, instruments and methods are the same as those found
in peer-on-peer criminal activity. The seminar presents some necessary
aspects of an international social and legal framework and offers
recommendations for the United Nations to follow-up the processes
begun in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

Sponsor of Seminar: Deb Agarwal