Student
Keshav Sreekumar
Mr. McCafferty
Global Studies
September 19, 2014
Cyberwarfare: The New Battlefield
Cyberwarfare: Blown by bits (1100010101010110001…). We have stepped in the 21st century and the world has given us some unbelievable technology that sometime it seems to be a dream. With the advancement in technology, we also face many disadvantages. One major disadvantage being information warfare, also called Cyberwarfare. Cyberwarfare while still is in its infancy, it is highly disruptive. Cyberwarfare is here and is here to stay for decades to come. It is no longer limited to countries or organizations but is scaling up to attacks against governments, special interest groups and even civilians. It will not be too long before Cyberwarfare will be on par with traditional military such as ground and air attacks and then very soon surpass these tactics.
We have lost control of what gets on the internet and is what is communicated globally. We recently were made aware of NSA wiretapping phone calls in an attempt to scrutinize chatter. Cyberwarfare has led to artificially inflated stocks, and millions of dollars in damage to the Stock Markets. Computer viruses, denial of service attacks and other Internet based hacking, espionage and attacking are in the news every day. The US government has recently funded the creation of a quantum computer that could crack the encryption passphrases that many hackers use in order to prevent them from being tracked while carrying out malicious actions. Moonlight Maze, Titan Rain and Ghostnet, and other attacks over the past decade have shown that cyber-attacks are real and happening. In fact, US government considers specific kinds of cyber-attacks an act of war, as in air and ground war. Today, everything that we use and depend on is in some way automated, let it be our phones, TV’s, modes of transportation and communications. All these electronic devices have drawbacks, what if an extremist group exploited the loopholes
Mr. McCafferty
Global Studies
September 19, 2014
Cyberwarfare: The New Battlefield
Cyberwarfare: Blown by bits (1100010101010110001…). We have stepped in the 21st century and the world has given us some unbelievable technology that sometime it seems to be a dream. With the advancement in technology, we also face many disadvantages. One major disadvantage being information warfare, also called Cyberwarfare. Cyberwarfare while still is in its infancy, it is highly disruptive. Cyberwarfare is here and is here to stay for decades to come. It is no longer limited to countries or organizations but is scaling up to attacks against governments, special interest groups and even civilians. It will not be too long before Cyberwarfare will be on par with traditional military such as ground and air attacks and then very soon surpass these tactics.
We have lost control of what gets on the internet and is what is communicated globally. We recently were made aware of NSA wiretapping phone calls in an attempt to scrutinize chatter. Cyberwarfare has led to artificially inflated stocks, and millions of dollars in damage to the Stock Markets. Computer viruses, denial of service attacks and other Internet based hacking, espionage and attacking are in the news every day. The US government has recently funded the creation of a quantum computer that could crack the encryption passphrases that many hackers use in order to prevent them from being tracked while carrying out malicious actions. Moonlight Maze, Titan Rain and Ghostnet, and other attacks over the past decade have shown that cyber-attacks are real and happening. In fact, US government considers specific kinds of cyber-attacks an act of war, as in air and ground war. Today, everything that we use and depend on is in some way automated, let it be our phones, TV’s, modes of transportation and communications. All these electronic devices have drawbacks, what if an extremist group exploited the loopholes