Cyber warfare has been defined as any hostile measures against an enemy designed“ to discover, alter, destory, disrupt or transfer data stored in a computer, manipulated by a computer or transmitted through a computer.” Examples of hostile use include computer attacks on air traffic control systems, on oil pipeline flow systems and nuclear plants.
Cyber Weapon
Cyber weapons includes computer viruses and software that can be used to penetrate enemy networks. Defining these tools as weapons, as opposed to systems or processes, allows the military to apply the same authorisation controls as they apply to conventional weapons such as guns and tanks.
Cyber command
Cyber command has been defined as a command for network which subordinate to the state.They have three tasks, attack, defence and development. Lets use the first establishment of cyber command, the US Cyber Command, to be an example to explain. US Cyber Command centralizes command of cyberspace operation and organizes existing cyber resources, these can help for the network developmant. In the defence side, US Cyber Command synchronizes defense of US military and the US government services networks, to comfirm that US will be safe under any situations.
In the attack side, it also include that the background why Cyber Command had aroused the international concern. In 2010, It has waged cyberwar. US Cyber Command postponed the development of nuclear weapon of Iran. It involves hacking and attack. This aggressive action had aroused international concern.
Why
We chose this topic because of Edward Joseph Snowden. He was an NSA system administrator. He was wanted by USA because he published th of the U.S. classified intelligence to public. He came to Hong Kong to publish these secret file. This action had aroused international concern, including us. He had published the PRISM project which U.S. is preparing to do. U.S. can through PRISM to get all the data about us, like e-mail,