Cyber threats continue to plague governments and businesses around the world. Cyberwarfare is Internet-based conflict involving politically motivated attacks on information and information systems. Normally there are two purposes of Cyberwarfare, espionage or sabotage. Cyberwarfare attacks can disable official websites and networks, disrupt or disable essential services, steal or alter classified data, and cripple financial systems. Cyber operations can also aide military operations, such as intelligence gathering and information warfare.
Decades ago, people felt that cyber war was not a serious threat. However, in recent years, there have been numerous instances of cyber warfare that viewed as significant threats to security. In December 2010, a group calling itself the Pakistan Cyber Army
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Personal vision about the future of cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare already exists in reality and has been spread out among countries or organizations over the past few decades. The rising technologies including artificial intelligence and computational neural networks used by future computers will not only be significant in a new era of power and communications, but will also broaden the channel for cybercrimes, attacks and warfare. Future cyberwarfare will continue to scale up attacks against governments, corporations and even civilians in the next decade where it will be on par with traditional military and will might surpass these tactics.
Future cyberwarfare will not just be targeted against military agencies or other government agencies. Computer viruses, denial of service attacks and other Internet based hacking, espionage and attacking will take place against financial industry as well. Just as the case of 9/11 in the U. S. where a financial center was targeted, so too will future cyber attacks be focused. Bringing down the New York Stock Exchange would be a prime target for some other countries or groups. Just like the War on Terror is a global war so is