{"id":29824,"date":"2013-10-03T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mcafee.com\/?p=29824"},"modified":"2025-06-02T00:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:48:47","slug":"hacking-summit-names-nations-with-cyberwarfare-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/other-blogs\/mcafee-labs\/hacking-summit-names-nations-with-cyberwarfare-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Summit Names Nations With Cyberwarfare Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, I read with great interest a paper published in the <em>Journal of International Security Affairs<\/em> titled <em>The Art of (Cyber) War<\/em>.\u00a0In this paper, Brian M. Mazanec explained the People\u2019s Republic of China was interested in cyberwarfare and had improved its capabilities to conduct military operations in the cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p>The paper contained a table summarizing the nation states with cyberwarfare capabilities at the end of 2004.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Virtually Here: The Age of Cyber Warfare<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Also in 2009, McAfee published its <em>Virtual Criminology Report <\/em>with the subtitle <em>Virtually Here: The Age of Cyber Warfare<\/em>.\u00a0Inside, we included a map of the world showing the countries developing advanced offensive cybercapabilities. The map&#8217;s caption read: \u201cCyber war is not occurring right now, but nation-states are definitely in competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was four years ago. Last week a colleague asked me for a list of nations with cyberdefense capabilities or developing offensive capabilities, but I was unable to do so. Now I have found one. Raoul Chiesa&#8211;President, Founder, Security Brokers and Independent Senior Advisor on Cybercrime at the United Nations Interregional Crime &amp; Justice Research Institute&#8211;published a <a href=\"http:\/\/2013.hackitoergosum.org\/presentations\/Day3-01.Keynote%20Information%20Warfare%20mistakes%20from%20the%20MoDs%20by%20Raoul%20Nobody%20Chiesa.pdf\">document<\/a> at the Hackito Ergo Sum 2013 conference.<\/p>\n<p>The following chart summarizes the data. The information is provided &#8220;as is&#8221; and is merged into one table. It came from the &#8220;Cyber World&#8221; working group from the Italian Ministry of Defense and is dated 2012. In red are the nation states considered to have offensive capabilities; the others have only defensive capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, I read with great interest a paper published in the Journal of International Security Affairs titled The Art&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[3952],"coauthors":[3973],"class_list":["post-29824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcafee-labs","tag-internet-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hacking Summit Names Nations With Cyberwarfare Capabilities | McAfee Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 2009, I read with great interest a paper 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