Cyber ​​attacks - not the war

Peter Sommer of the London School of Economics and Ian Brown of the Institute for the Study of Internet at Oxford University together produced a joint report on the assessment of the status and prospects of computer security. According to their observations, cyber attacks, no matter how complex they are, are not yet a full-fledged war. Because of their scale is not able to break through the protection of critical infrastructure elements e. Governments can use these methods of influence on other countries to organize the various troubles enemy.

For example, rumors that found in 2010 a computer worm Stuxnet, hitting mainly the hardware of industrial equipment, is the brainchild of US- Israeli military and is designed to destroy nuclear facilities in Iran. To date, it is known that for this program were only Israeli Service.