Cyberspace is a dangerous place. We enter this dangerous virtual world of cyberspace the moment we connect to the Internet to access our email, check our bank account, pay bills, book airline tickets, upload photos, search for information. Everyday, everyone of us who uses the Internet is vulnerable to attack. The very networks and institutions that depend upon these networks are 24/7/365 vulnerable to attack.
We all know about viruses that infect computers and gum up the works. This all seems a mere nuisance until suddenly all our files are inaccessible and unrecoverable or our financial identities are stolen. But this is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Cyberspace is the new frontier for not only mischievous troublemakers, thieves and frauds but for hardcore criminals and criminal enterprises, sociopaths, political and religious terrorist, governments and corporations, and rogue organizations within governments and corporations all bent upon utilizing the power inherent in cyberspace to their own ends. The full implications of these Cyber Wars is yet to be realized.
For more information on Cyber warfare see these Wikipedia articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyber_attack_threat_trends
Watch for more posts on the Cyber Wars here.
Tags: cyber Wars, cyberspace, viruses