Alperovitch, D. (2011). Revealed: Operation Shady RAT. Retrieved from http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/white-papers/wp-operation-shady-rat.pdf
McAfee white paper that links attacks on 70+ corporations and government agencies worldwide to a single actor, likely based in China. [More from the Washington Post.]
Beidel, E., & Magnuson, S. (2011, August). Government, military face severe shortage of cybersecurity experts. National Defense, 96(693), 32-34. Retrieved from http://www.ndia.org [Full text available in Academic Search Complete database.]
There is an acute shortage of Internet security experts in the government, and no large pool of applicants waiting in the wings to join the fight. "We need to be on the cutting edge with everyone else, from the teenager to the terrorist," Lt. Gen. Michael Basia, vice commander of Air Force Space Command, said at the Space Foundation's Cyber 1.1 conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., earlier this year. "For this domain, big brains are more important than big guns or big brawn."
Choo, K. R. (2011). The cyber threat landscape: Challenges and future research directions. Computers and Security (article accepted, in press). doi:10.1016/j.cose.2011.08.004 [Full text available in the ScienceDirect database.]
Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated with the blending of once distinct types of attack into more damaging forms. Increased variety and volume of attacks is inevitable given the desire of financially and criminally-motivated actors to obtain personal and confidential information, as highlighted in this paper. [I] describe how the Routine Activity Theory can be applied to mitigate these risks by reducing the opportunities for cyber crime to occur, making cyber crime more difficult to commit and by increasing the risks of detection and punishment associated with committing cyber crime. Potential research questions are also identified.
Goel, S. (2011). Cyberwarfare: Connecting the dots in cyber intelligence. Communications of the ACM, 54(8), 1132-1140. doi:10.1145/1978542.1978569 [Full text available in the Business Source Complete database.]
Discussion of "the cyberwarfare landscape, as well as the challenges involved in data collection, analysis, and attribution in cyberwarfare incidents."
