Cyber warfare is acyberattack or series of cyberattacks launched against a countryor state with the aim of gaining a strategic or military advantage. Acts of cyber war typically involve infiltrating or damaging networks, sabotaging infrastructure, and disrupting the operations of organizations and insti...
The best way to assess a nation’s readiness for cyber warfare is to conduct a real-life exercise or simulation, also known as a cyber wargame. A wargame can test how governments and private organizations respond to a cyber warfare scenario, expose gaps in defenses, and improve cooperation be...
Governments and nation states are now officially training for cyberwarfare: An inside look The new art of war: How trolls, hackers and spies are rewriting the rules of conflict Inside the secret digital arms race: Facing the threat of a global cyberwar ...
Why the who, what and how of cyberwarfare matters is because how these factors combine will help determine what kind of response a country can make to a cyberattack. There is one key formal definition of cyberwarfare, which is a digital attack that is so serious it can be seen as the ...
This scenario might resemble something from a futuristic Terminator movie, but the reality is that chip implants in humans could potentially facilitate espionage and cyber-attacks akin to those we’ve observed online. A new term gaining traction on social media platforms like X and Facebook is “...
Look, seeing a deepfake of Tom Cruise playing the guitar on TikTok might be funny, but when you consider the quite possible dangers of this technology and how it can be used in a cyber warfare scenario, it stops being funny and becomes more worrisome. ...
Ideally, organizations should have complete control over all applications used by employees to conduct business. When employees use non-approved applications without informing the IT team – the result is shadow IT. In this scenario, the IT team is not even aware of these applications and cannot ...
Learn about cyber extortion: what it is, how it works, and steps to prevent and respond to these digital threats.
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But imagine a scenario where an attack happens before the vulnerability is known. In these situations, how are zero-day attacks discovered? Zero-day exploit detection The longer a zero-day attack remains undetected, the longer the hacker can continue attacking, and zero-day exploits are often ...