cyber warfare is not typical "hacking"/"cracking" as many of you see it. you do not just telnet half way around the world or dialup to some Nuclear power plant (although you can do that to Houston Lighting and Power:-) and do a DoS attack that causes a kernel panic and shuts down the power grid.
cyber warfare is fought on many different battle fields, and in many ways we have been fighting cyber wars for quite a while. do a little reading on the Navy war game where a US Navy ship was taken over and one of it's missles launched in a cyber warfare attack, you'll get an idea of how these things work. cyber warfare involves things like:
Radio/Radar Jamming, EMF Disruptions, other DoS attacks. we've been doing this for a long time.
Stealing proprietary technology that missles, ships, et. al. are controlled with and using it to attack/compromise the enemy.
Compromising physical technology/network access points to further attack/manipulate the enemy.
Disruption of electronic banking systems (freezeing foreign assets, disabling systems, stealing money)
It also involves all kinds of technologies, rarely the Internet. i.e. Spread Spectrum, VHF, UHF, Satellite, GSM (and cell protocols), other radio frequencies, etc...
any typical act of war (propaganda, disabling supply lines and communications, spying, etc...)
the biggest advantage any attacker could gain by using cyber warfare IMHO would be to steal proprietary knowledge, information, and war plans.
remember that cyber warfare is not a *new war*. war is war and cyber warfare is a means to an end. CW is just new ways of doing the things that war has always done, even since the days of King David or Sun Tzu.
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anybody remember this idea as one of William Gibson's?
acts of war where the internet is the only medium seems a bit short-sighted to me.
cyber warfare is fought on many different battle fields, and in many ways we have been fighting cyber wars for quite a while. do a little reading on the Navy war game where a US Navy ship was taken over and one of it's missles launched in a cyber warfare attack, you'll get an idea of how these things work. cyber warfare involves things like:
- Radio/Radar Jamming, EMF Disruptions, other DoS attacks. we've been doing this for a long time.
- Stealing proprietary technology that missles, ships, et. al. are controlled with and using it to attack/compromise the enemy.
- Compromising physical technology/network access points to further attack/manipulate the enemy.
- Disruption of electronic banking systems (freezeing foreign assets, disabling systems, stealing money)
- It also involves all kinds of technologies, rarely the Internet. i.e. Spread Spectrum, VHF, UHF, Satellite, GSM (and cell protocols), other radio frequencies, etc...
- any typical act of war (propaganda, disabling supply lines and communications, spying, etc...)
the biggest advantage any attacker could gain by using cyber warfare IMHO would be to steal proprietary knowledge, information, and war plans.remember that cyber warfare is not a *new war*. war is war and cyber warfare is a means to an end. CW is just new ways of doing the things that war has always done, even since the days of King David or Sun Tzu.
MTV should be sued or something. All this "documentary" is going to do is flood IRC, et. al. with aspiring bank thiefs.
"c4n y0u 734ch m3 h0w t0 h4xx0r mY m0Mz 84nk???"
or
"1 w4n7 70 b3 31337"
This kind of press glamorizes cracking. Why don't we just teach them how 31337 it can be to rob banks instead?
Get real MTV.