Effects Of Cyberwarfare

Recently, cyberwarfare is defined as the actions taken by a nation-state or international organization to destabilize or hinder another country through the attack and attempt of Internet. Basically, this kind of attacks will be information technology based attack which involves attack nation’s computer, nation’s services, security systems, networking infrastructure and so on.

There are three types of common methods of cyberwarfare attack which included espionage, sabotage and propaganda. Espionage is considered as the attack on confidentiality, which disclosure the information to unauthorized parties. Government espionage cyberwarfare attack relate to stealing information from another government organisation. It involves the secret cooperating

It is the abuse of social media, as example, fake news websites, fake posts or stories and fake social media feeds. It is an effort to control information in media form to influence public opinion. People usually believe the “fake news” as they think social media posts with rather fantastic, implausible stories. The growth of Internet has become the latest means of communication to spread out lies and misinformation. The Fake News Triangle consists of three elements which as shown as below.

During the Russo-Georgian War in 2008, the cyber propaganda attacks were widely abuse. The website of the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was targeted. The phrase that influence people of Georgia also traffic directed on the website. The websites for OSInform News Agency and OSRadio were then hacked.

Cyberwarfare creates negative consequences which result in different aspects of damage and loss. Cyberwarfare involves military attacks which create a networks war. In 1982, CIA tricked the Soviet Union into acquiring software with built-in flaws. The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire after a decent interval. This triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian gas pipeline. That technology result in expand the abuse of network which is using a software can causes physical

In 2007, China cyber espionage was sentenced to 11 years by Russia as he has passed the information about the rocket and space technology organization to China. China cyber espionage was being widely spread at that time. Technology of United States included aerospace engineering programs, space shuttle design, C4ISR data, high-performance computers, nuclear weapon design, cruise missile data, semiconductors, integrated circuit design, and details of US arms was sold to Taiwan.

For the financial aspect, cyberwarfare may lead to the malfunctioning of financial infrastructure, the most basic will be the attacks on ATMs, disrupts offline and online transactions as well as nation banks’ internal accounting systems. It leads to a huge loss to a country. Millions of people will be affected. This may also lead to the bankruptcy of a country.

There is a good reason why the U.S. Director of National Intelligence ranks cyberwarfare as the No. 1 national security threat, ahead of terrorism, espionage and weapons of mass