 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW & TECHNOLOGY (C2ET) DIGEST - MARCH 2023 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
With dreams of JADC2, Pentagon relaunches
AI-driven command & control experiments
The Pentagon kicked off a new Global Information
Dominance Experiment in high-speed data sharing.
The US military HQs aren’t nearly as high-tech
as people think they are, and that’s a problem the
Pentagon is eager to solve. Military and civilian
leaders from across all service branches, all eleven
combatant commands, technology vendors and
international allies participated in the ...Read more > | 25 Pages 1,009.81 KB |
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 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW & TECHNOLOGY (C2ET) DIGEST - FEBRUARY 2023 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Delinea has published its 2022 State of Ransomware Report, finding that there’s been a sharp
decrease in the volume of ransomware attacks,
though the average ransom demand has gone up.
Despite the slowdown in attacks, the researchers
found that the average ransom demand has gone
up over the past year:
“It’s important to note that while the volume of
attacks appears to be decreasing, the average ransomware payment is increasing. The payments
in cases worked by Unit 42 incident ...Read more > | 15 Pages 658.52 KB |
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 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW & TECHNOLOGY (C2ET) DIGEST - MARCH 2023 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
With dreams of JADC2, Pentagon relaunches
AI-driven command & control experiments
The Pentagon kicked off a new Global Information
Dominance Experiment in high-speed data sharing.
The US military HQs aren’t nearly as high-tech
as people think they are, and that’s a problem the
Pentagon is eager to solve. Military and civilian
leaders from across all service branches, all eleven
combatant commands, technology vendors and
international allies participated in the ...Read more > | 25 Pages 1,009.81 KB |
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 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW & TECHNOLOGY (C2ET) DIGEST - FEBRUARY 2023 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Delinea has published its 2022 State of Ransomware Report, finding that there’s been a sharp
decrease in the volume of ransomware attacks,
though the average ransom demand has gone up.
Despite the slowdown in attacks, the researchers
found that the average ransom demand has gone
up over the past year:
“It’s important to note that while the volume of
attacks appears to be decreasing, the average ransomware payment is increasing. The payments
in cases worked by Unit 42 incident ...Read more > | 15 Pages 658.52 KB |
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 | A PRIMER ON TRENDS IN CHINA’S MILITARY AIR, SPACE, AND MISSILE FORCES By China Aerospace Studies Institute
Over the last two and a half decades, the People’s Republic of China
(PRC) has invested heavily in the modernization of its military forces. These
efforts have yielded dramatic improvements in the personnel, organizational
structure, equipment, training, doctrine, and overall proficiency of the
People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The Communist Party of China’s (CCP)
air, space, and missile forces in particular, collectively referred to here as the
PLA’s “aerospace forces”, have ...Read more > | 119 Pages 7.85 MB |
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 | CHINA AEROSPACE STUDIES INSTITUTE COMMANDER’S TOOLKIT FOR CHINA: PLA CYBER By China Aerospace Studies Institute
First became prominent in early 2014 around the time of the first
meeting of the new Central Leading Group for Cybersecurity and
Informatization, headed by Xi Jinping (put himself at the center of
cyber) XI: landmark April 19, 2016, speech to the Work Conference for
Cybersecurity and Informatization and a follow-up speech two
years later. It was even featured in a rousing patriotic ...Read more > | 26 Pages 744.67 KB |
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 | U.S NATIONAL DEFENSE STRATEGY – 2022: OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLE? By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
On October 27, 2022, the US government published the unclassified version of the
National Defense Strategy (NDS), along with the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and
Missile Defense Review (MDR) . It is a much-anticipated document which shows how the
Biden administration plans to counter threats from adversary nations at a time when war
and the threat of compound conflicts are escalating. The last NDS was published in early
2018 by the Trump ...Read more > | 6 Pages 767.12 KB |
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 | CYBER, COMMUNICATIONS, EW & TECHNOLOGY (C2ET) DIGEST - DECEMBER 2022 By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Cyberattack on servers of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
There was a cyberattack on servers of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS). The attack was discovered on November 23, 2022. The AIIMS management
stated that a ransomware had “affected outpatient and inpatient digital hospital
services, including smart lab, billing, report generation, appointment scheduling”. This
has been denied by Delhi Police. Most of the systems, including online booking ...Read more > | 27 Pages 1.19 MB |
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 | KILLING OF AL-ZAWAHIRI: U.S COUNTER-TERRORISM OPERATIONS, FUTURE OF AL QAEDA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TALIBAN, PAKISTAN, OTHER STAKEHOLDERS AND INDIA By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
Al Qaeda emir Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed on a Sunday morning of July
31, 2022, on the balcony of his Kabul residence by a U.S. missile strike. It is
a critical event that has grave implications for the U.S. counter-terrorism
operations, Al Qaeda, the global jihadi movement, Pakistan, the Taliban,
the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, Arab countries, India and ...Read more > | 118 Pages 2.97 MB |
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 | DRAFT TELECOM BILL 2022: A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION BUT CONCERNS REMAIN By Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd)
India is set to overhaul its telecommunication regulatory framework.
The Ministry of Communications, Government of India, has released
a 40-page draft of the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022, along
with an explanatory note for public comments. In the accompanying
explanatory note, the objectives are improving digital inclusion, growing
the telecommunications sector and creating a future-ready international
telecommunications ...Read more > | 26 Pages 551.70 KB |
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