Cyber Warfare is the internet-based conflict involving politically motivated attacks on information and information systems. Cyber warfare attacks can disable official websites & networks, disrupt or disable essential services, steal or alter classified data & cripple financial systems. An example of this can be seen when Google suspected China of hacking them! Article found here.
Methods of attack includes cyber espionage, sabotage attacks on electrical power grids. Cyber espionage involves obtaining secrets or sensitive information from governments, enemies and organisations to gain a military, political or economic advantage using illegal exploitation methods on the internet such as key logging, widespread denial of service attacks and sophisticated bot net command and control attacks. An example of a malicious cyber attack is the computer spying network called 'GhostNet'.
The program sent emails containing relevant information to organisations attached with a trojan horse, which then caused the infected computer to install a trojan called 'Ghost Rat' which allowed attacks to gain remote access to the computer. This is one of the numerous methods countries use to infiltrate the enemies computer security!
Methods of attack includes cyber espionage, sabotage attacks on electrical power grids. Cyber espionage involves obtaining secrets or sensitive information from governments, enemies and organisations to gain a military, political or economic advantage using illegal exploitation methods on the internet such as key logging, widespread denial of service attacks and sophisticated bot net command and control attacks. An example of a malicious cyber attack is the computer spying network called 'GhostNet'.
The program sent emails containing relevant information to organisations attached with a trojan horse, which then caused the infected computer to install a trojan called 'Ghost Rat' which allowed attacks to gain remote access to the computer. This is one of the numerous methods countries use to infiltrate the enemies computer security!
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