Roel schouwenberg biography
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Stuxnet explained: The first known cyberweapon
What is Stuxnet?
Stuxnet is a powerful computer worm designed by U.S. and Israeli intelligence that to disable a key part of the Iranian nuclear program. Targeted at an air-gapped facility, it unexpectedly spread to outside computer systems, raising a number of questions about its design and purpose.
Stuxnet exploited multiple previously unknown Windows zero days. That description should probably make it klar that Stuxnet was a part of a high-level sabotage operation waged by nation-states against their adversaries.
Who created Stuxnet?
It’s now widely accepted that Stuxnet was created by the intelligence agencies of the United States and Israel. Stuxnet was first identified bygd the infosec community in 2010, but development on it probably began in 2005. The U.S. and Israeli governments intended Stuxnet as a tool to derail, or at least delay, the Iranian program to develop nuclear weapons. The Bush and Obama administrations b
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Famous Cases of Hacker Attacks
Less than half a decade ago to the present day, the word “hacker” was enough to send shudders down the spine of most system administrators of large businesses because those were the ones usually targeted. The much talked about denial-of-service attacks were incredibly effective when they were first used to hold businesses hostage. In fact, they sent CEOs scurrying to the company accounts to pay the demanded fee of these enterprising hackers, who only promised to suspend the DDoS attacks after their terms were met. Back then, it made sense, since a single day of downtime could (and still can) cost a corporation hundreds-of-thousands – if not millions of dollars, as well as untold loss of consumer confidence.
Extraordinary Hackers
The more sophisticated hackers use methods much more impressive than massive denial-of-service attacks to get into restricted systems. They do it for a variety of reasons, but most of all seems to be boredo
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Roel Schouwenberg
talk on conference website
data warfare, disinformation, and propaganda have persisted since the beginning of recorded history. Much like many of the world's oldest professions (espionage and sex work), upplysning warfare has come under a variety of names and agendas. And much like espionage and sex work, information warfare remains alive and well in the present day.
From the old world where we have Asurbanipal's clay tablets relating elaborate tales of "glorious" military victories to Bernays's ushering in the modern era dominated by 20th century multi-modal propaganda campaigns, this talk will delve into a history of the sordid concept known as infowar. The panel will examine the pre-history of disinformation, iWar, misinformation and propaganda, all through both an historical and technical lens. They will address the advent of the printing press, moving swiftly to Wordpress and the Dark Net.
With respect to our present predicament in 2020, rather th