Cyber Wars

[Auzgurl]

Cyber warfare is now a reality with at least five nations including the United States and Russia already armed with virtual weapons.
Most worrying is the fact that hackers are able to access the network because of lack of security..

A wave of politically-motivated cyber offensives this year – such as attacks on the White House and the US Department of Homeland Security – show that the international arms race is now moving online, a study claims.

The report warns that cyber strikes could have a "devastating" impact on national infrastructure with power grids, water supplies and financial markets all at risk.

While the potential of online warfare has long been talked up, the Virtual Criminology Report released by the web security firm McAfee claims that it is now moving from science fiction to fact.

France, Israel and China are among the countries known to have cyber weapon programmes, according to Paul Kurtz, the former White House adviser who complied the study based on interviews with more than 20 experts.

“McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two years ago, but now we’re seeing increasing evidence that it’s become real,” said Dave Dealt, president of McAfee.

“Now several nations around the world are actively engaged in cyber warlike preparations and attacks. Today, the weapons are not nuclear, but virtual, and everyone must adapt to these threats.”

The infrastructure of most developed nations is connected to the internet and vulnerable to hackers because of insufficient security controls, the report warns.

Companies will also be caught in the crossfire of future cyber wars between governments because so many essential services are privately run, it advises.

Last month a congressional advisory panel in the US warned that China appears to be using the growing technical abilities to collect US intelligence through a sophisticated and long-term computer attack campaign.

Georgia also accused Russian hackers linked to the government of forcing Georgian websites offline during the real-world conflict between the two nations in 2008.

[mantra.]

Do you know how hard it is to find interesting topics Auzgurl while you're trying to get a forum established? It doesn't help when subjects are snatched and used on a forum that already has good membership. I know you find Political Menagerie distasteful, but don't take from there to help your own cause here please.

[freediver]

Who wrote the article?

[Auzgurl]

a guy called Mathew Moore but I cant put that in the OP because we have had our edditting function removed/cut back to a few minutes..

It would be nice of it could be changed back to unlimited.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... armed.html

[JW.Frogen]

The US military has just contacted me and asked if I would like to return as a cyber warrior.

They want me to endlessly bleat on about my penis and drinking habits on Chinese web sites in the strategic hope they will give in and raise the value of their currency.

[JW.Frogen]

Plan B is that Chinese women on forums will pine for my babies and thus we can invade the yellow peril's gene pool.

I am prepared to orgasmically die for the cause.

[boxy]

The US military has just contacted me and asked if I would like to return as a cyber warrior.

They want me to endlessly bleat on about my penis and drinking habits on Chinese web sites in the strategic hope they will give in and raise the value of their currency.

[boxy]

Imagine the hackers getting control of a predator type drone while it's still in base. It's the way of the future, indeed.

[JW.Frogen]

Imagine the hackers getting control of a predator type drone while it's still in base. It's the way of the future, indeed.

Yeah, this is the furture of warfare Boxy.

I kick ass on Wii Boxing, none of those little PC cartoons makes it passed the first round with me, so I expect to be drafted into the cyber Seals any time now.

[AiA in Atlanta]

The US military has just contacted me and asked if I would like to return as a cyber warrior.

They want me to endlessly bleat on about my penis and drinking habits on Chinese web sites in the strategic hope they will give in and raise the value of their currency.

You are a "soulja" Frogen, not a soldier. You got soul.