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We'd never thought of Bruce Willis as a seer, but the cyber-warfare plot of Die Hard 4.0 doesn't seem so far-fetched any more. In June, the removal of a Russian war memorial in Estonia's capital Tallinn sparked what appears to be a cyber-war waged by Russians, with Estonia's banks, political parties and government sites on the receiving end of a sustained barrage of distributed denial of service attacks. Estonian authorities claim that at least some of the attacks can be traced to the Russian security services.
While Estonian servers suffered a month-long attack, the US military reported that China was assembling a "cyber-army" to wage war digitally. According to the report, The Military Power of the People's Republic of China 2007, "People's Liberation Army authors'' often cite the need in modern warfare to control information, sometimes termed an 'information blockade'. China is pursuing this ability by improving information and operational security, developing! electronic warfare and information warfare capabilities, denial-of-IV service and deception.
So is cyber-war really happening in Estonia? Toraly Dirro is EMEA Security Strategist for McAfee AVERT Labs (www.avertlabs. com): "It's not completely clear whether there was some official motivation behind this or if it was just local hackers," he says. "We've seen purely hacker-motivated 'cyberwars' before, such as the one between Chinese and American hackers back in zoos ° Certainly, the DDoS attacks that McAfee monitors are the preserve of hackers and criminals rather than nation states. That doesn't mean countries aren't practicing cyber-war. We just don't know about it.
Hot on the heels of the Estonia DDoS attack is news that NATO, especially in the U.S., is gearing up for cyber warfare. According to NATO, the threat of military cyberattack must be taken seriously. In fact, if the reports are to be believed, the presence of cyber warfare in the future is but an inevitable progression.
Excerpt from The Registry:
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In Brussels yesterday, NATO defense ministers agreed that firm and decisive action was necessary to protect “information systems of critical importance,” Reuters reports.
As it stands, the USA is not only prepping its own cyber defenses, but is also honing her ability to mount network assaults. For this purpose, a new three-star cyber command is being setup at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. In fact, it is already home to about 25,000 military personnel involved in anything from electronic warfare to network defense.
The predominant worry to the U.S. appears to be China. According to the CNN:
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China is seeking to unseat the United States as the dominant power in cyberspace, a U.S. Air Force general leading a new push in this area said Wednesday. “They’re the only nation that has been quite that blatant about saying, ‘We’re looking to do that,”‘ 8th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Robert Elder told reporters.
The word straight from the Pentagon:
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China’s People’s Liberation Army has established information warfare units to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems and networks
You can read the rest of the report from CNN: General: China taking on U.S. in cyber arms race
Whatever parties it might involve, just how likely a future do you think it is where hostile nations take their disagreements into cyberspace? What will be the likely targets? Also, as an IT professional, is there anything at all that you could or should do preemptively to protect your company?
I've been in the movie just yesterday, it's awesome and funny, however if you have some idea's of pcs you will notice some unlogical parts, like they try to download all the US' financial data on one external harddrive
The action, the audio and video quality is awesome, and in some scenes it really made the audience break out in laughter, like when someone says to McLaine: Incredible, you just killed a Chopper with a car!!!
Yea I ran out of ammunition
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