Active Response

Wired News article on the FBI sting on a Russian hacker - the so-called 'Invita' case. A US federal judge gave the FBI the authority to hack the Russian's computers on Russian soil.

Judge allows FBI to hack russian computer and install keylogger to trace attacks in US

Governments and critical infrastructures rely increasingly on networked computing technologies and are thus ever more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. International law is not fully formed on this issue, but the UN Charter and the laws of armed conflict establish certain baseline rules.

Cyber-attacks and international law
Gregory D Grove, Seymour E Goodman, Stephen J Lukasik. Survival London:Autumn 2000. Vol. 42, Iss. 3, p. 89-103 (15 pp.)
ISSN/ISBN: 00396338

Host or network protection is not achieved by strengthening their defenses but by weakening the enemy's offensive capabilities. A prototype tool has been implemented that demonstrates that such an approach is feasible and effective

D. Bruschi, C. L., and E. Rosti, "Less Harm, Less Worry or How To Improve Network Security by Bounding System Offensiveness," presented at 16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000.

Chris Loomis, in this article attempts to generate discussion regarding response and its problems.

General article about response, nothing really new

Tim Mullen's presentation at Defcon 2002 regarding strike-back in response to Nimda infections

J. C. Harsanyi, "Bayesian Decision Theory and Utilitarian Ethics," presented at Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, 1978.

J. C. Harsanyi, "Games with Incomplete Information," The American Economic Review, vol. 85, pp. 291-303, 1995.

J. Nash, "Non-Cooperative Games," The Annals of Mathematics, vol. 54, pp. 286-295, 1951.