computer network attack

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computer network attack

Operations to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information resident in computers and computer networks, or the computers and networks themselves. Electronic attack (EA) can be used against a computer, but it is not computer network attack (CNA). CNA relies on the data stream to execute the attack while EA relies on the electromagnetic spectrum. An example of the two operations is the following: sending a code or instruction to a central processing unit that causes the computer to short out the power supply is CNA. Using an electromagnetic pulse device to destroy a computer's electronics and causing the same result is EA. Also called CNA. See also computer network defense; electronic attack; offensive information operations.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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(109.) Definition of Computer Network Attack, DEP'T OF DEF.
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(2) Computer Network Attack is defined by the Department of Defense
(76.) See, for example, Marco Benatar, 'The Use of Cyber Force: Need for Legal justification?' (2009) 3 Goettingen Journal of International Law 375; Daniel Silver, 'Computer Network Attack as a Use of Force under Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charier' (2002) 76 International Legal Studies 73.
[42] As Commander, USCYBERCOM, General Alexander is responsible to plan, execute and manage forces for coordinating Department of Defense computer network attack (CNA) and computer network defense (CND) as directed by US Strategic Command.
(13.) Knut Dormann, Computer network attack and international humanitarian law, INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS, May 19, 2001, para.
Indeed, such a safe harbor would align the interests of military and civilian policymakers on the common goal of protecting critical infrastructure from a computer network attack originating in China, whether instigating by the People's Liberation Army or so-called "black-hat" hackers.
Distinctions between crime, terrorism and war tend to blur when attempting to describe a computer network attack (CNA) in ways that parallel the physical world.
Session Two will focus on Normalization Computer Network Attack (CNA) as a Legitimate Tool of War.
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