Cyber War: The Way of The Future?
Jonathan Richards writes in The Times Online (UK):
The prospect of inter-governmental cyber-war was something for which countries needed to be increasingly prepared, security experts said today.More here.
An attack launched by an army of zombie computers which could disable a country’s computer systems and cut off its essential services could “definitely” be pulled off by a Government, they said.
The comments come in the wake of allegations by Estonia that Russian authorities were responsible for a wave of attacks on Estonian government websites designed to make the Baltic state's systems crash and paralyse its infrastructure.
If the attacks, which Estonia claims can be traced to internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with Russian authorities, are found to be linked with the Kremlin, it would be the first known instance of one state 'declaring cyber-war' on another.
posted by Fergie @ 5/18/2007 01:05:00 PM
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