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NATO: Cyber Warfare Poses as Great a Threat as Missile Attack

Bobbie Johnson writes in The Guardian.co.uk:

NATO is treating the threat of cyber warfare as seriously as the risk of a missile strike, according to a senior official.

A London conference was told that online espionage and internet-based terrorism now represent some of the gravest threats to global security.

Suleyman Anil, who is in charge of protecting NATO against computer attacks, said: "Cyber defence is now mentioned at the highest level along with missile defence and energy security.

Anil, who is head of NATO's computer incident response centre, told the E-Crime congress in London that the cost of hi-tech strikes on government communications was falling, while the amount of damage they could inflict grew.

posted by Fergie @ 3/06/2008 08:17:00 PM