1.2 Basics of Information Warfare
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size network packet, a connection request), which is incorrectly processed by an
information system working with such data due to errors in it. As a result of incorrect
processing of such data set, the information system may become vulnerable.
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a typical example of an algorithmic
weapon, consisting in the fact that quite correct requests for the use of information
resources are sent to the high intensity system under attack. This leads to the fact
that the capabilities of the information system for servicing such requests are quickly
exhausted and, as a result, it refuses to provide services to all its users.
Software ITW include software for attacking the enemy’s information systems:
– Malicious logic;
– Software for managing remote network attacks;
– Computer viruses;
– Neutralizers of tests and code analysis software.
Support tasks software in traditional areas of application (air, land, sea):
– Software for creating false objects and resources in the information space (virtual
machines);
– Combat simulation software;
– Computer intelligence software.
Hardware information weapons (HIW) include hardware that was originally built
into the information system (or illegally embedded in it), as well as authorized hardware with undocumented features, which in the course of operation provide for
unauthorized effects on the information resources of the system. The most common
type of hardware information technology weapons is hardware Trojans.
The physical ITW include the means of obtaining information through access
to the “physical” infrastructure of the information space under attack, the analysis
of various physical fields generated by this infrastructure, as well as the means of
electronic attack and, naturally, fire damage of its physical elements, understandable to military men, although only those tools that are intended to influence the
technical elements of the information system should be classified as proper physical
information technology weapons.
According to the authors, the most complete classification of physical information
technology weapons was given in the works [1, 10, 12]:
– Technical intelligence equipment, classified by the physical media, where
information is obtained and malicious logic is introduced;
– Means of electronic countermeasures (ECM);
– Means of electro-optical countermeasures;
– Means of soft kill by electromagnetic radiation (EMR)—electromagnetic pulse
generators, SHF radiation generators, laser radiation generators, etc.;
– Biological and chemical means of impact on the REE element base, their currentcarrying parts and conductors (for instance, graphite bombs).
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size network packet, a connection request), which is incorrectly processed by an
information system working with such data due to errors in it. As a result of incorrect
processing of such data set, the information system may become vulnerable.
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a typical example of an algorithmic
weapon, consisting in the fact that quite correct requests for the use of information
resources are sent to the high intensity system under attack. This leads to the fact
that the capabilities of the information system for servicing such requests are quickly
exhausted and, as a result, it refuses to provide services to all its users.
Software ITW include software for attacking the enemy’s information systems:
– Malicious logic;
– Software for managing remote network attacks;
– Computer viruses;
– Neutralizers of tests and code analysis software.
Support tasks software in traditional areas of application (air, land, sea):
– Software for creating false objects and resources in the information space (virtual
machines);
– Combat simulation software;
– Computer intelligence software.
Hardware information weapons (HIW) include hardware that was originally built
into the information system (or illegally embedded in it), as well as authorized hardware with undocumented features, which in the course of operation provide for
unauthorized effects on the information resources of the system. The most common
type of hardware information technology weapons is hardware Trojans.
The physical ITW include the means of obtaining information through access
to the “physical” infrastructure of the information space under attack, the analysis
of various physical fields generated by this infrastructure, as well as the means of
electronic attack and, naturally, fire damage of its physical elements, understandable to military men, although only those tools that are intended to influence the
technical elements of the information system should be classified as proper physical
information technology weapons.
According to the authors, the most complete classification of physical information
technology weapons was given in the works [1, 10, 12]:
– Technical intelligence equipment, classified by the physical media, where
information is obtained and malicious logic is introduced;
– Means of electronic countermeasures (ECM);
– Means of electro-optical countermeasures;
– Means of soft kill by electromagnetic radiation (EMR)—electromagnetic pulse
generators, SHF radiation generators, laser radiation generators, etc.;
– Biological and chemical means of impact on the REE element base, their currentcarrying parts and conductors (for instance, graphite bombs).