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Spotlight | France, United States
DAWN OF THE INFOWAR ERA

A small group of American hackers who claimed to be infuriated over French economic spying against the U.S. were preparing this summer to mount an electronic assault on the main nerve centers of the French economy. Starting early this year [...]

Published on 14.09.1995 at 11:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Spotlight | United States
IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

In recent months the Pentagon and NSA have undertaken secret and direct negotiations with the bosses of IBM and Microsoft to get them to install systems enabling the intelligence community to gain access to encrypted data.

Subscribers only 07.10.1999

Spotlight | Europe, United States
GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

Over the past six months a roaring trade has sprung up on back-street markets for equipment to intercept cellular telephone calls that had once been reserved for government intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The risk that GSM networks are being [.

Subscribers only 10.06.1999

Europe, United States
NEW VIRUSES AS HIDDEN INFOWAR WEAPONS

Among the strongest computer viruses identified in recent times experts have been noting a sharp rise in the number of [...]

Subscribers only 10.06.1999

United States
INFOWAR SQUABBLES

According to well-placed government sources, the Clinton administration is mired [...]

Subscribers only 10.12.1998

United States
SEPARATE COMMAND FOR INFOWAR

The U.S. Air Force recently went one better than the Pentagon itself with regard American efforts to come to grips [...]

Subscribers only 17.09.1998

United Kingdom
INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG), a division of Britain's SIGINT organization GCHQ that vets information technology products for government [...]

Subscribers only 19.02.1998

United States
PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

Unveiled on Nov. 5 after several months of sometimes story debate, the report that the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure [...]

Subscribers only 20.11.1997

United States
ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS

The U.S. armed forces have adopted Netscape for its communications. [...]

Subscribers only 23.10.1997

France, United States
INTERNET AND SECRET SERVICES

Jean Guisnel's book Guerres dans le Cyberespace: Services Secret et [...]

Subscribers only 26.06.1997

Spotlight | Europe, United States
STANDARDS A WEAPON IN INFOWAR

Up to now, standards and norms on a national or world level traditionally emerged from a long bureaucratic process established by engineers isolated in their specific technical fields. For some time now, however, this backwater world has become a strategic [.

Subscribers only 12.06.1997

United Kingdom, United States
GETTING AROUND EXPORT CURB

Two companies, UK Web Ltd. and C2Net Software, Inc., have [...]

Subscribers only 27.03.1997

United States
PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS

An Atlanta-based company specializing in encryption software for the Internet, [...]

Subscribers only 30.01.1997

United States
SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET

Hewlett-Packard claims to have developed an encryption framework for securing [...]

Subscribers only 28.11.1996

Russia
MOSCOW'S COMPUTER SECURITY SCARE

"Informational security" has become one of the major concerns of Russian intelligence in recent times. The FSB is presently negotiating [...]

Subscribers only 01.08.1996

Spotlight | Europe
KEYS OF THE SECURITY KINGDOM

European legislation on encryption is widely varied. For instance, Dirk Heuze, head of BSI, the German information security agency, strongly recommends that companies encrypt their messages on the Internet. His French counterpart, gen. Jean-Louis Desvignes, head of the Service Central [.

Subscribers only 18.07.1996

United States
EASING THE GLOBAL RULES

New international rules and technical standards for cryptography that both the U.S. government and the majority of Western nations could [...]

Subscribers only 07.03.1996

United States
FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER

American intelligence services are known to be strongly opposed to [...]

Subscribers only 11.01.1996

United States
SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES

Most users working in companies or government services who need to protect their messages don't do so because encryption software [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.1995

France
A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED

For years Jean-Bernard Condat has undoubtedly been France's best-known computer hacker. Appearing on television talk shows, launching provocative operations and [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.1995

France, United States
THE FEARLESS CODE BUSTERS

Damien Doligez, a 27-year-old French research worker who took a job at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et [...]

Subscribers only 31.08.1995

United States
PENTAGON'S SPACE TIE WITH CIVIL SIDE

In a move that marks the U.S. military's growing tendency to farm out work to civilian companies, the U.S. Defence [...]

Subscribers only 27.07.1995

Spotlight | Russia, United States
THE SCRAMBLE FOR RUSSIAN COMPUTER NETWORKS

The Russians and Americans have been racing in recent months to grab control of computer networks in Russia. In the early days of perestroika the U.S. acted through various foundations and universities to equip many Russian scientists with computers and [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 13.07.1995

United States
WILL NAUTILUS SCUPPER CLIPPER CHIP?

Three American programmers, Bill Dorsey, Pat Mullarky and Paul Rubin, last month began using Internet to distribute the Beta version [...]

Subscribers only 31.05.1995

Spotlight | Middle East, United States
INTELLIGENCE BATTLE IN CYBERSPACE

The huge information arena created by Internet has become a new, world-wide battleground for leading intelligence services. The same struggles that took place up to now in the "real" world are unfolding at present in cyberspace.

Subscribers only 26.04.1995

Spotlight | United States
CRYPTOGRAPHY BATTLE

On Thursday 19 May the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the adoption of the Digital Signature Standard (DSS) as the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 186. As such DSS is to provide unforgeable digital signatures to all [.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 25.05.1994

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Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

Spotlight | France, United States
DAWN OF THE INFOWAR ERA

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Spotlight | United States
IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

Spotlight | Europe, United States
GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

Europe, United States
NEW VIRUSES AS HIDDEN INFOWAR WEAPONS

United States
INFOWAR SQUABBLES

United States
SEPARATE COMMAND FOR INFOWAR

United Kingdom
INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

United States
PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

United States
ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS

France, United States
INTERNET AND SECRET SERVICES

Spotlight | Europe, United States
STANDARDS A WEAPON IN INFOWAR

United Kingdom, United States
GETTING AROUND EXPORT CURB

United States
PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS

United States
SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET

Russia
MOSCOW'S COMPUTER SECURITY SCARE

Spotlight | Europe
KEYS OF THE SECURITY KINGDOM

United States
EASING THE GLOBAL RULES

United States
FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER

United States
SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES

France
A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED

France, United States
THE FEARLESS CODE BUSTERS

United States
PENTAGON'S SPACE TIE WITH CIVIL SIDE

Spotlight | Russia, United States
THE SCRAMBLE FOR RUSSIAN COMPUTER NETWORKS

United States
WILL NAUTILUS SCUPPER CLIPPER CHIP?

Spotlight | Middle East, United States
INTELLIGENCE BATTLE IN CYBERSPACE

Spotlight | United States
CRYPTOGRAPHY BATTLE

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Spotlight | United States IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

Spotlight | Europe, United States GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

Europe, United States NEW VIRUSES AS HIDDEN INFOWAR WEAPONS

United States INFOWAR SQUABBLES

United States SEPARATE COMMAND FOR INFOWAR

United Kingdom INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

United States PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

United States ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS

France, United States INTERNET AND SECRET SERVICES

Spotlight | Europe, United States STANDARDS A WEAPON IN INFOWAR

United Kingdom, United States GETTING AROUND EXPORT CURB

United States PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS

United States SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET

Russia MOSCOW'S COMPUTER SECURITY SCARE

Spotlight | Europe KEYS OF THE SECURITY KINGDOM

United States EASING THE GLOBAL RULES

United States FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER

United States SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES

France A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED

France, United States THE FEARLESS CODE BUSTERS

United States PENTAGON'S SPACE TIE WITH CIVIL SIDE

Spotlight | Russia, United States THE SCRAMBLE FOR RUSSIAN COMPUTER NETWORKS

United States WILL NAUTILUS SCUPPER CLIPPER CHIP?

Spotlight | Middle East, United States INTELLIGENCE BATTLE IN CYBERSPACE

Spotlight | United States CRYPTOGRAPHY BATTLE

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Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

Spotlight | France, United States
DAWN OF THE INFOWAR ERA

Spotlight | United States
IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

Spotlight | Europe, United States
GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

Europe, United States
NEW VIRUSES AS HIDDEN INFOWAR WEAPONS

United States
INFOWAR SQUABBLES

United States
SEPARATE COMMAND FOR INFOWAR

United Kingdom
INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

United States
PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY

United States
ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS

France, United States
INTERNET AND SECRET SERVICES

Spotlight | Europe, United States
STANDARDS A WEAPON IN INFOWAR

United Kingdom, United States
GETTING AROUND EXPORT CURB

United States
PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS

United States
SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET

Russia
MOSCOW'S COMPUTER SECURITY SCARE

Spotlight | Europe
KEYS OF THE SECURITY KINGDOM

United States
EASING THE GLOBAL RULES

United States
FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER

United States
SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES

France
A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED

France, United States
THE FEARLESS CODE BUSTERS

United States
PENTAGON'S SPACE TIE WITH CIVIL SIDE

Spotlight | Russia, United States
THE SCRAMBLE FOR RUSSIAN COMPUTER NETWORKS

United States
WILL NAUTILUS SCUPPER CLIPPER CHIP?

Spotlight | Middle East, United States
INTELLIGENCE BATTLE IN CYBERSPACE

Spotlight | United States
CRYPTOGRAPHY BATTLE