From Information Warfare to Information Operations and Cyber Warfare

2015 ◽  
pp. 27-54 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Warfare ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Information Operations

The Evolution of Cyber Warfare in Information Operations Targeting Estonia, the U.S., and Ukraine

2019 ◽  
pp. 140-177
Author(s):  
Kenneth James Boyte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Grids ◽  
Cyber Warfare ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Information Operations ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Modern Warfare

This comparative international case study provides a context for considering the evolution of cyber technologies as elements of hybrid warfare, including information operations (IO), capable of killing people, as well as impacting political elections and physical infrastructure (such as power grids and satellite-based communications and weapons systems). Threatened by “autonomous battle networks,” the “Internet of Battle Things” has been considered a domain of modern warfare by the United States since 2011 and by NATO since 2016. Focusing on three historic cyberattacks against three modern democracies—Estonia in 2007, the United States in 2012, and Ukraine during the 2013-2015 conflict—the study shows how computer warfare, first reported in the 1990s, has become integral in warfare for both state and non-state actors—particularly for information warfare waged by proxies to create confusion and manipulate public opinion via satellites that can penetrate national boundaries and firewalls with armies of zombies and botnets.

THE NEW SECURITY CHALLENGES OF INFORMATION WAR

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1855-1864
Author(s):  
Olga Zoric ◽  
Katarina Jonev ◽  
Ivan Rancic
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Practical Aspect ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Information Operations ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic

The author starts from the informational dimension of the operational environment in a strategic reality and deal with the problem of defining informational power from the theoretical and practical aspect of information warfare.The deliberations in the work are aimed to initiate a procedure for auditing of the security documents in order to create a legal basis for the operationalization of the content of information security, as one of the aspects of integral security of the Republic of Serbia. The paper deals with the conceptual determinations and importance of information, information warfare and information operations, as well as the content of information warfare, pointing out the strategic and doctrinal definitions of the information warfare of the United States of America, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Serbia. It is necessary to accurately and objectively observe world achievements in the field of national security and the relation of the most powerful world powers to the problem of information warfare. Based on a comparative analysis of world trends and the state of the theoretical and practical aspects of information security of the Republic of Serbia, the focus is on work, where measures are proposed to improve the security function in the fourth unit of work.

Fake News and Information Warfare

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosanna E. Guadagno ◽  
Karen Guttieri
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Cyber Warfare ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Fake News ◽  
False Information ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Key Terms

Fake news—false information passed off as factual—is an effective weapon in the information age. For instance, the Russian government perfected techniques used in its 2007 Estonian and 2008 Georgian cyber campaigns to support Donald Trump's successful candidacy in the 2016 United States presidential election. In this chapter, the authors examine fake news and Russia's cyberwarfare efforts across time as case studies of information warfare. The chapter identifies key terms and reviews extant political science and psychological research related to obtaining an understanding of psychological cyber warfare (“psywar”) through the proliferation of fake news. Specifically, the authors suggest that there are social, contextual, and individual factors that contribute to the spread and influence of fake news and review these factors in this chapter.

Origin of Cyber Warfare and How the Espionage Changed

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-153
Author(s):  
Maria Luisa Nardi
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cyber Warfare ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Over Time

International politics is faced with new and vital issues, linked to aspects such as individual rights, the holding of democracy, the effects of worldwide policies, as well as the geopolitics of technology. The intertwining of technology and international relations is now a fact. Exploring the new and different political challenges posed by new technologies is a factor of transformation of the global society that influence on its actors. Today, an application of technological innovation, digital technology, and artificial intelligence is a steady political field. The focus of this work is to describe over time the notion of information warfare, which has matured and manifested into a form that has a colossal impact on how the contemporary wars are fought, but this has also resulted in the downgrading of strategic side of information warfare or cyber warfare to a decisive tactical force multiplier capable of turning the tides in war.

Fake News and Information Warfare

2021 ◽  
pp. 218-242
Author(s):  
Rosanna E. Guadagno ◽  
Karen Guttieri
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Cyber Warfare ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Fake News ◽  
False Information ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Key Terms

Fake news—false information passed off as factual—is an effective weapon in the information age. For instance, the Russian government perfected techniques used in its 2007 Estonian and 2008 Georgian cyber campaigns to support Donald Trump's successful candidacy in the 2016 United States presidential election. In this chapter, the authors examine fake news and Russia's cyberwarfare efforts across time as case studies of information warfare. The chapter identifies key terms and reviews extant political science and psychological research related to obtaining an understanding of psychological cyber warfare (“psywar”) through the proliferation of fake news. Specifically, the authors suggest that there are social, contextual, and individual factors that contribute to the spread and influence of fake news and review these factors in this chapter.

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