eForensics for eWarfare

Explore the United States civil war as a milestone in electronic warfare, showing how telegraph communications aided the Union and how Confederate wiretapping shaped early signals intelligence.

Uncover the Russo-Japanese War as the pioneer of sigint and electronic warfare. Observe naval radio interceptions and the decision not to jam that aided Japan.

Explore how World War I shifted sigint from undersea cables to radio, enabling allies to intercept and disrupt German communications. Examine dazzle camouflage and sound-based detection that thwarted U-boat targeting.

Traces how World War II popularized radar, chain home defense, and airborne signals intelligence within the electromagnetic spectrum, while detailing jamming, deception, and propaganda tactics.

Explores how electronic warfare shaped the Arab-Israeli wars, from the Six-Day War's radar jamming and intercepted communications to the Yom Kippur War's naval jamming and deception exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum.

Examine how the US used stealth aircraft and drones as decoys, GPS-guided missiles, and night vision to defeat Iraqi air defenses from the 1980s through the second Gulf War.

Analyze Stuxnet, the first recorded cyber weapon and milestone in cyber warfare. It targeted Siemens PLC at Natanz, varied centrifuge speeds, and used a mole with infected flash drives.

The lecture examines Israel's 2019 real-time drone strike on a Hamas hacking unit as the first kinetic response to a live cyber attack, and discusses ethical debates and misattribution risks.

Analyze the 2020 U.S. patrol aircraft case over the Philippine Sea, detailing military grade lasers and their blinding effects, along with related incidents and defense responses described in the lecture.

Trace suspected Russian attacks from 2014 to date, covering cyber espionage, information warfare, spear phishing, election meddling, and deepfakes, while noting attribution challenges and third- and fourth-party involvement.

Explore future trends in electronic warfare, including ion beam laser defenses and interception against hypersonic missiles. Address cyber influence operations, ai integration in unmanned weaponry, cognitive warfare, and cloaking concepts.

Explore active radar countermeasures, including jamming, decoys such as chaff and flares, stealth technology, and anti-radiation missiles, and learn how intelligence enables disruption or misdirection of radar to avoid detection.

Ground-controlled interception radars provide precise ground-based target data by detecting and tracking airborne targets and classifying them as friendly, neutral, or adversarial to guide interception.

Target tracking radars provide precise range, elevation, angle, azimuth, and velocity data to guide weapons—ground-based, aerial, or weapon-integrated—using high frequency, low bandwidth signals to maintain a lock at short ranges.

Compare civilian and military digital forensics to reveal how evidence must be collected, preserved, and analyzed forensically sound while prioritizing actionable intelligence in military operations.

Discover how digital forensics uses electromagnetic spectrum data for electronic support, enabling tactical exploitation, rapid decision making, and training simulations for electronic protection and attack.

Compare digital forensics with security intelligence to yield actionable security insights from data. Understand Sigint types: Comint, Elint, Vincent, and the life cycle guiding collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination.

this module contrasts civilian and military digital forensics, emphasizing actionable intelligence and forensic soundness, while showing how security intelligence and forensics augment each other through site exploitation.

Explore industrial control systems as the heart of operational technology, highlighting SCADA and DCS, PLCs, HMIs, and data historians, and examine cyber threats and defense measures.