Cyber warfare is coming
- Source: Global Times
- [18:22 November 19 2009]
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The private sector vulnerable to attacks
The San Francisco Chronicle quoted Doug Tygar, an information management professor at the University of California saying, "There's considerable evidence that vulnerabilities exist," and listed critical infrastructure, such as electrical grids, transportation, telecommunications systems, banking and finance and other private sectors.
Key infrastructure, particularly in developed economies, are privately owned, according to Dr. Kim Kwang Choo, information security expert at the Australian Institute of Criminology. These sectors are increasingly relying on "information technologies and communications infrastructure" as they "become more globalized and interconnected", which renders them more susceptible to cyber assaults.
Li at the National Defense University of China said, "To corrupt these systems is technologically demanding. The report showed the US' concern over its dependence on the network. The more it relies on the Internet, the more vulnerabilities it will be expose to."
Allegations cyber attacks come from China
China is never willing to mention cyber warfare, but according to a Time.com article Thursday, it is "conducting so-called asymmetrical warfare, aiming at using the US's dependence on technology as a weapon."
In October, the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report entitled "Capability of the People's Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation", claiming that "China is likely using its maturing computer network exploitation capability to support intelligence collection against the US Government and industry by conducting a long term, sophisticated, computer network exploitation campaign."
Li Daguang, military expert at the National Defense University of China, said the majority of Chinese hackers don't possess advanced cyber hijacking skills, as they only use cyber attacking tools downloaded from the Internet.
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