Likewise, a cyber security data sharing platform could prove vital to understanding, preventing, and responding to cyber attacks.

Governments can hope to deter cyber attacks just as they deter nuclear or other armed attacks.

The Russia Georgia conflict represents the first significant cyber attacks accompanying armed conflict.

Cyber attacks may also interfere with financial markets and cause immense economic loss by closing down commercial Web sites.

GV contributor Yoo Eun Lee, who writes about Korea, asked Who was behind the South Korean cyber attacks? , writing

The Iranian Cyber Army launched botnet attacks against a number of media sites including BBC, Radio Farda, and Radio Zamaneh.

Law enforcement officials suggest that these attacks are not the work of mischievous hackers but of sophisticated criminal operations.

Finally, we have seen cyber attacks not just swamping Web sites, but targeting entire countries, such as NATO ally Estonia in 2007.

Cyber Insecurity

Cyber Café

Cyber crime

And so there's a lot of I'm sure you've read a lot in papers, about worries about cyber attacks and defenses against those.

Whenever manipulation efforts fail, cyber attacks offer yet another powerful tool to crack down on dissent without triggering public accusations of formal censorship.

The ASD includes a Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) which is responsible for protecting Defence and other Australian Government agencies against cyberwarfare attacks.

It is one thing to read about sophisticated cyber war capabilities it is quite another to see the online identities of familiar people or Web sites suddenly hijacked.

China s Cyber Warriors

Systematic cyber attacks constitute a new frontier of asymmetrical warfare at a time when the world already confronts other unconventional threats, including transnational terrorism.

Cyber war and cyber espionage are largely associated with states, while cyber crime and cyber terrorism are mostly associated with non state actors. The highest costs currently stem from espionage and crime but, over the next decade or so, cyber war and cyber terrorism may become greater threats than they are today.

Cyber War and Peace

Cyber War and Peace

Furthermore, the insurgency has taken a more brutal turn of late, using more sophisticated weaponry, as seen in the recent suicide bombing attacks.

A cyber 9 11 may be more likely than the often mentioned cyber Pearl Harbor.

This growing disillusion was already present when a wave of cyber attacks on Google (and other companies) forced the company to re assess its entire China strategy.

Can Cyber Warfare Be Deterred?

And 4, Open cyber infrastructure

There are also the political and economic turmoil in Pakistan and the risk of a rise in cyber attacks for example, in retaliation for criminal proceedings against WikiLeaks.

Cyber threats and potential cyber warfare illustrate the increased vulnerabilities and loss of control in modern societies.

Computer hackers attacked Georgian government Web sites in the weeks preceding the outbreak of armed conflict. The Russia Georgia conflict represents the first significant cyber attacks accompanying armed conflict.

While an international legal code that defines cyber attacks more clearly, together with cooperation on preventive measures, can help, such arms control solutions are not likely to be sufficient.

A series of cyber attacks followed, and was so devastating that the entire service with its millions of other blogs crashed, forcing LiveJournal administrators to delete his account temporarily.

Among other public sources, it could point to a study by the cyber security firm Mandiant, which traced many such attacks to a People s Liberation Army facility in Shanghai.

Amidst a crumbling economy, the country remains belligerent, using its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, to launch at least one successful drone flight above Israel and reportedly initiating recent cyber attacks.

For example, countries at the lower end of the digital divide were used as staging grounds to launch cyber attacks or as transit countries to mask the cybercrime trail.

Mumbai police to monitor cyber cafes

Constitution, elections, comics, and cyber activists.

Cyber security was also being advanced.

The findings determined that over 60 of students had been cyber bullied and were victims of cyber bullying.

Urbane, sophisticated, cruel.

Sophisticated. Let's see.

But Russia has recently met our efforts with scorn, from suspension of its participation in the Conventional Armed Forces Treaty to harassment of business people and cyber attacks on neighbors.

All of this works and is exciting for people as long as people feel that the networks are secure from cyber attacks, secure in terms of their privacy, Gross said.

Although the greatest cyber threat comes from rogue states with the capacity to develop extremely sophisticated computer viruses, risks can also come from anarchistic hackers and terrorists, or even from computer glitches compounded by natural catastrophe.

They're very technically sophisticated.

He's far too sophisticated.

Encourage adoption of the Council of Europe's Convention of Cyber Crime, May 2001, as the basis for standardized cyber crime efforts. Encourage countries with relevant capabilities to provide assistance in cyber security and IT protection.