Cyberwar
Summary
Cyberwar is a conflict fought without foot soldiers, guns or missiles. Instead, attacks are launched by computer hackers, digital spy rings, information thieves – cyber armies of criminals, terrorists and some backed by nation states.
In the United States, there is a growing concern that they pose a massive threat to national security, and a conviction that the world military superpower needs to be prepared to win this war.
The worst-case scenario is an attack on a country’s network that would take down critical infrastructure – such as power grid; aircraft control system, or one of the country’s critical defense systems. Something like that would paralyze the country, cause loss of life, and cause enormous economic damage, and take a long time to restore. The US government is attacked by hackers over a billion times a day.
Keywords: fault lines; al jazeera; josh rushing; cyberwar; guns; soldiers; superpower , hacking
