• DocumentCode
    1285879
  • Title

    Lifting the Veil on Cyber Offense

  • Author

    Lin, Herbert

  • Author_Institution
    National Research Council
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    15
  • Lastpage
    21
  • Abstract
    Cyber attacks are deliberate actions to alter, disrupt, deceive, degrade, or destroy computer systems or networks or the information and/or programs resident in or transiting these systems or networks. The use of cyber attack as an instrument of US policy is rarely discussed but is an important topic to the nation.
  • Keywords
    security of data; US policy; computer system security; cyber attack; network security; Computer crime; Computer networks; Computer security; Degradation; Explosives; Instruments; Kinetic theory; Law; Payloads; Weapons; US policy; attacks; cyber warfare; cyberattack;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2009.96
  • Filename
    5189557
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1285879