Mike Chapple - Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Chapple, Mike, 1975- author. | Seidl, David, author.
Title: Cyberwarfare : information operations in a connected world / Mike Chapple, David Seidl.
Description: Second edition. | Burlington, Massachusetts : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2023] |
Identifiers: LCCN 2021013019 | ISBN 9781284225440 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Cyberspace operations (Military science) | Information warfare. | Computer security.
Classification: LCC U167.5.C92 C43 2023 | DDC 355.4/1dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021013019

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This book is dedicated to our friend and colleague, Dewitt Latimer.
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This book is part of the Information Systems Security & Assurance Series from Jones & Bartlett Learning (www.jblearning.com). Designed for courses and curriculums in IT Security, Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, and Information Systems Security, this series features a comprehensive, consistent treatment of the most current thinking and trends in this critical subject area. These titles deliver fundamental information security principles packed with real-world applications and examples. Authored by Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs), they deliver comprehensive information on all aspects of information security. Reviewed word for word by leading technical experts in the field, these books are not just current, but forward-thinkingputting you in the position to solve the cybersecurity challenges not just of today but of tomorrow as well.

Consider this scenario: On a quiet June morning, sometime in the future, military commanders at U.S. Strategic Command in Nebraska gather around a computer screen, pointing at a series of social media posts that have just appeared on their screens. They are somewhat bewildered, because the posts seemed to come out of the blue, and they havent heard anything from higher levels of command yet. Heres what they see:

International Cable News

Breaking News: President Jones killed in attack on White House. More to come.

Unified Press Agencies

Military troops ordered on high alert after DC attacks. Retaliatory strikes expected.

The commanding general picks up the hotline phone to place a call to the National Military Command Center to obtain further direction. She gets a puzzled look on her face when she hears a rapid busy signal. Normally, the watch officer in Washington answers the phone immediately. She quickly flips on the television and finds static instead of the normal cable news broadcast.

A young soldier in the command center turns to a computer connected to the public Internet and finds that he is unable to connect to any websites. The command center has no contact with the outside world and has received information that an attack against the nations capital has resulted in the death of the commander in chief.

An alarmed airman approaches the general and reports: Maam, weve lost control of one of our Predator drones. Station 6 is no longer able to control the flight, and the drone appears to be following orders from someone else. The alarmed command staff turns its attention to a monitor that is still streaming live video from the drone over a secure network and watches in horror as the drone begins to land at an airstrip in the Middle East. It is surrounded by inquisitive foreign military officers before the feed goes dead.

Did the attack against Washington actually take place? Is this the beginning of a major armed conflict? Were the social media posts legitimate or the results of cyberattacks against the presss social media accounts? Are communication circuits dead because of a bomb dropped on a communications complex or a cyberwarfare attack against the command center? How did the enemy gain control of that drone? What is going to happen next?