Preparing for Cybergeddon.




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Cyber warfare

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Preparing for Cybergeddon.

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In January 2009 FBI agents rated the possible consequences arising from cyber warfare attacks second only to those expected from weapons of mass destruction. The level of this electronic threat is illustrated by the recent attacks on Estonian and Georgian national networks by Russian hackers--combine this with the fact that the world's defence architectures and economies are linked and controlled by computers.

A cyber attack is normally understood to mean a malicious intrusion into a computer network, but some military services augment this definition by including wi...

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