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US CYBERWEAPONS. "Obama administration has spent billions of dollars developing sophisticated cyberweapons with view to using them to intervene in Syrian conflict while reducing need for traditional military attacks; considerations that have led Pres Obama to hesitate about using cyberweapons in Syria reflect larger concerns about the new and untested tactic." http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cyberwarfare/ View in LinkedIn

CYBER ARMS RACE. "Mark 2013 down as the year that the global cyberweapons arms race started ... five cyberattacks of unprecedented size and scope in just the first six months of the year ... many of these cyberattacks appear to have emanated from state-sponsored actors coordinating cyberespionage campaigns lasting years..." http://lnkd.in/dMrYX_T View in LinkedIn

MASK: ADVANCED CYBERWARFARE. "A sophisticated computer virus aimed at governments and finance firms was probably created by a nation state ... the virus is thought to have been targeting victims for seven years." Victims include governments, private equity firms, embassies, oil and gas companies, activist groups and research labs. http://lnkd.in/dqS6TVj View in LinkedIn

IRANIAN NUCLEAR CENTRIFUGE TARGET by STUXNET malware virus. "It is speculated to have been created by United States and Israeli agencies to attack Iran's nuclear facilities... While it is not the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems ... it is the first discovered malware that spies on and subverts industrial systems." http://lnkd.in/d68yicx View in LinkedIn

US INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE threat assessment for 2014, by threat type and geography. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/DNIthreats2014.pdf View in LinkedIn

CYBERWARFARE AS LEADING INDICATOR OF BIOWARFARE http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5T View in LinkedIn

CYBERWARFARE AS LEADING INDICATOR OF BIOWARFARE. "During the past century, more than 500 million people died of infectious diseases. Several tens of thousands of these deaths were due to the deliberate release of pathogens or toxins ... Two international treaties outlawed biological weapons ... have largely failed to stop countries from conducting offensive weapons research." http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5T View in LinkedIn

CYBERWARFARE is the subject for consideration in the next series of blogs for one reason only: it is probable that developments in the cyber world will quite quickly be matched by similar biological developments, just as was the case in cybercrime and future biocrime. View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO AND BW THREATS. The preceding set of posts presents an optimistic picture of SYNBIO, combined with DNA vaccines as a highly responsive response to a BW threat, and if combined with proactive blood screening for novel viral strains, can provide an improved preparedness. View in LinkedIn

DARPA WANTS TO TRANSFORM VACCINES MANUFACTURE. "The Prophecy program seeks to transform the vaccine and drug development enterprise from observational and reactive to predictive and preemptive by spurring development of a multidisciplinary approach to predicting viral evolution." It's 2015 total requested budget is $2.9 Bn. http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Programs/Prophecy_(Pathogen_Defeat).aspx View in LinkedIn