This year has marked a turning point for cyber warfare—and the implications of the (largely unseen) escalation taking place have now become a real and present danger to us all.
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"When people ask me what keeps you up at night," Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency,The cyber warfare playing out in the headlines is in itself multidimensional. You are seeing the mix of genuinely military offensive and defensive capabilities, with state-sponsored attacks on civilian targets. Iran clearly understands that retaliation against the U.S.
targeting the building Hamas cyber operatives had been working from. It was an effective response, and it also sent a message: we won't fight cyber offensives with clever software and internet stop-gaps—if we know where you are we will destroy you, dThe U.S. is vulnerable to attacks on its networked technology infrastructure. And with the billions of new endpoints forecast to emerge under the push to IoT this will get much worse.
Brown explained that this is a mass-scale play. His point being that military cyber warfare is a dart aimed at a small section of a dartboard, but push your strike into the civilian sphere, and you have millions of darts and an unlimited board to hit.
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