Global cyberwar: Installed in your PC at home, the office and government | ZDNet Government | ZDNet.com

TransTracker 's personal annotations on this page

Transtracker bookmarked on 2009-10-21 cyberwar

Today it’s no longer 1 PC versus 1 PC or 100 v. 100. Now it scales into the millions with command and control from a BlackBerry. This time, somebody is going to get hurt.
Denial of Service attacks
The evolution of this became the learning ground of cyber terrorism and eventually all out war between nations via the internet - nation vs. nation. The goal is achieving serious economic and social impacts
Geeks in dungeons are now in uniform and they don’t take prisoners or feed you.
It’s the modern version of the Cold War, truly preparing for a global cyber launch of World War III.
Imagine the board game Axis and Allies evolved into 21st century digital world.
Users simply do not know that their PC has been taking control of by remote operated program (bots, etc.) and is about to be used for an attack.
How big can this war potentially get? Could it be possible to destroy an entire nation’s economy and commerce? Yes and right now if the correct resources and teams decided to enable such an attack.
What does the scenario look like?

Let’s take a virtual country as the target.

This link has been bookmarked by 1 people . It was first bookmarked on 21 Oct 2009, by TransTracker.