CyberWafare

Attacks made through Cyber technology are constantly on the up rise, especially seeing as technology is forever constantly growing, these advancements that we continue to make with technology means that there are new ways of war thought up to stop incoming threats.
Countries are trying to find information through cyberspace to hold against enemies and find out secrets, countries are also always trying to gain the upper hand in warfare.

Cyberwarfare was explained by Richard Clarke as- “actions by a nation-state to penetrate another nation’s computers or networks for the purpose of causing damage or disruption.”

To disrupt your apposing countries ability to fight back is key in war, and the fact that many people feel that this threat is on the up rise, when actually could it not just be being hyped up by cyberspace itself?  

http://youtu.be/nxeGYa3S5FM <- The following video discusses whether cyber warfare is hoax.

Stuxnet Virus was originally created to interfere with Irans nuclear warhead, and was also detected in many different countries such as China, the UK, Germany and India. It was a first look at the future of cyber offenses. Instead of bombs, why not use computer codes? 

The link below looks more into this story.

 http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9861-Stuxnet-Virus-is-an-Example-of-Cyber-Warfare.html

We, as humans, are becoming more and more dependent on technology and cyberspace as time goes on, one of the main uses of these is communication. Which bring me to the situation of Egypt, the government turned off the internet. I cannot imagine how this must of been, especially seeing as they were going through a uprising, and protesters were using the internet, which would spread information to other countries around the world. Was turning off the internet a cyber weapon? Telecomix and Anonymous joined together to help get dial-up devices working again, so by turning the internet off it actually did bring people together. 

It it also now confirmed that the MET police have control, and can actually turn off your mobile network, they will then use a fake one to track someones whereabouts. They can either just turn off the network, or make it look like it's working when it isn't.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/metropolitan-police-mobile-phone-surveillance

They can also blanket an area so everyone in the radios is under illusion. 

I have officially grown up it a generation where technology and cyber space is used and is extremely popular with everyone. Okay, so the military will use cyberwarfare most probably more often in the future, but the doesn't mean we ever have to chuck out the good side of technology that brings alot of people together.