Lucus Nelson teaches hash analysis for Windows forensics at the nationally accredited Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy in Linthicum, MD, part of the DoD Cyber Crime Center (http://www.dc3.mil/).
Credit: Lance Cheung / U.S. Air Force
Cyberwarfare is a potent weapon in political conflicts, espionage, and propaganda. Difficult to detect a priori, it is often recognized only after significant damage has been done. Gaining offensive capability on the cyber battlefield figures prominently in the strategies of many countries.