Cyber Warfare Is Being Waged On Our Industries

Cyber warfare takes warfare into a whole new dimension

. It is being quietly waged on our country by attacking our industries to steal technology. This makes it very easy for an enemy to use secrets that it stole for little or no cost to keep up with the technological edge that we try to maintain in business and warfare.

The typical time between an intrusion and its discovery is 416 days. When companies discover that they have been hacked it is way too late to do anything about it. Information that has been gained has been used so long that it is just about impossible to figure out what was stolen and how it was used. The publicly available malware in the so-called cyber underground is now so good that you can do a lot of damage without a dedicated team of code writers coming up with their own stuff. In fact, the much-discussed cyber attack against Georgia was carried out mostly with publicly known tools.

Cyber-intrusions and compromise are so endemic that many attackers dont even bother with the wholesale vacuuming of information that used to characterize cyber-snooping. Now hackers go after very specific pieces of information, often data that is useless on its own. This data is then combined with other seemingly useless data as pieces of a puzzle are put together and used very effectively.

In one such incident a company called Mandiant could not figure out why someone would want to steal a certain proprietary device, because it only worked in combination with a specific chemical formula owned by another company. Naturally, it wasnt long before the second company discovered it was compromised, and also befuddled because its chemical formula would only be useful to someone who had information about the device manufactured by the first. In this situation we dont know exactly how much damage had been done before the intrusion was discovered. This type warfare is totally from land warfare or anything else that we know in these days, but it is highly effective, silent, and deadly.

Online miscreants are also becoming more sophisticated at a strategic level. They might target small companies that were merging with larger ones, to avoid trying to attack the bigger firms online security. Instead, by compromising a small companys computer networks, the bad guys can then get into the new common network after a merger.

The Chinese are the biggest culprits along with the Russians. Both countries have always operated by allowing the United States to develop the technology then stealing it thus saving themselves a lot of money. They have taken this approach with military technology for quite a long time and these tactics have enabled them to keep pace with the US militarily.

According to experts the cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbor has already happened to us. Global cyber crime is more profitable than the drug trade. Americas onetime technological advantage is gone and much of its intellectual property secrets have been stolen. The worst thing about all of this is that we have no clue as to what the real extent of the damage is. We probably never will know. Military Ring Express

by: tishbite

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