http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/security-bytes/russian-cyberwar-yes-no-maybe-so/ A SearchSecurity.com blog Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:39:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/security-bytes/russian-cyberwar-yes-no-maybe-so/#comment-542 Blog da Informática » Blog Archive » DDoS attacks against Georgian government sites Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:41:22 +0000 http://security.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/08/13/russian-cyberwar-yes-no-maybe-so/#comment-542 [...] The specter of cyberwarfare has been looming over the Internet since its earliest days. Once people figured out that they could send malicious traffic to remote computers, it was only a matter of time before discussions turned to how this could be useful in the context of military operation. Given that the Internet’s predecessor was developed on a contract for the Department of Defense, this was a logical school of thought. But despite all of the theories, speculation and postulating, the number of confirmed incidents with one country launching government-sponsored attacks against another country’s networks is essentially zero. Everyone thinks it’s happening and lots of people have suggested that China, Israel, the U.S. and a couple of other countries have been using directed attacks in this way, but there’s no way to know for sure. […] [...] [...] The specter of cyberwarfare has been looming over the Internet since its earliest days. Once people figured out that they could send malicious traffic to remote computers, it was only a matter of time before discussions turned to how this could be useful in the context of military operation. Given that the Internet’s predecessor was developed on a contract for the Department of Defense, this was a logical school of thought. But despite all of the theories, speculation and postulating, the number of confirmed incidents with one country launching government-sponsored attacks against another country’s networks is essentially zero. Everyone thinks it’s happening and lots of people have suggested that China, Israel, the U.S. and a couple of other countries have been using directed attacks in this way, but there’s no way to know for sure. […] [...]

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