What is Cyberwarfare?

Cyberwarfare is probably one of the most advanced forms of weaponry in such a way that it can bring about negative influences on the one being aimed at. This is sometimes referred to as the fifth domain of the warfare next to the land, sea, air, and space.

The term cyberwarfare usually indicates hacking that is influenced mostly by politics and this is done in order to successfully perform both spying and sabotaging. This kind of attack is massive in nature and it is also digitally-synchronized for the purpose of having a successful attack by the government or groups of citizens against another.

Cyberwarfare is a type of information warfare which is also similar to the conventional warfare. But then, relating cyberwarfare with conventional warfare became an issue due to the level of precision of each of the attacks as well as the political motivation behind these two.

Based on the results of its use, it was proven that there is no such thing as restrictions when utilizing cyberwarfare. In addition, most of the established objectives are accomplished when making use of this kind of wide-ranged assault. There were various types of attacks that were recorded by security specialists as part of the cyberwarfare and these are the following: sabotage, electrical power grid, vandalism, and information gathering.

via What is Cyberwarfare?.

~ by yahyasheikho786 on July 22, 2010.

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