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• n  an assault on electronic communication networks

• For years one of the fundamental questions facing any tech reporter was about cyberwarfare.
• A current wave of hacking attacks seems to be aimed mainly at collecting information and probing defenses, but in a real cyberwar, a successful attack would target computer .
• The first superpower cyberwar lasted nine days.

• cyber-terrorism

News & Articles

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• Presidential cyberwar directive gives Pentagon long-awaited marching orders (+video)
  The 18-page, Top Secret 'Presidential Policy Directive 20' instructs the Pentagon to draw up a cyberwar target list and to protect US infrastructure from foreign cyberattack.
  June 11, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• Presidential cyberwar directive gives Pentagon long-awaited marching orders
  The 18-page, Top Secret 'Presidential Policy Directive 20' instructs the Pentagon to draw up a cyberwar target list and to protect US infrastructure from foreign cyberattack.
  June 11, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• Obama's Cyberwar Target List Just Made His Meeting with China Very Difficult
  Cyberwar is all-but-officially the new Cold War. In its third major scoop in three days, and just hours before President Obama was set to sit down at the Sunnylands estate in California with Chinese President Xi Jinping to talk about cyberwarfare, The Guardian reported that Obama ordered national security agents to compile a list of targets for preemptive Internet-based disruption, similar to ...
  June 7, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Bruce Schneier in AFP
  Building tanks does not mean you fear you could be overrun by a military force right now. It pays to build tanks and it pays to prepare for cyberwar, but I don't believe that's a fear we should worry about right now,Schneier said.
• Mike McConnell in CNN International
  The United States is fighting a cyberwar today, and we are losing,said former NSA director -- and current cyberwar contractor -- Mitch McConnell.
• Boris Johnson in Carluke Gazette
  Cyberwar, in some sense, is going on right now. So, I say to my friends on the Internet, relax......[Because] this is something that we need to protect our country. Right now China......can disconnect parts of [the] Internet in case of war and we... Joe Lieberman http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGOIPwMWmBmG_bXFxt6Y1inBkJAzQ TG Daily http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/50289-lieberman-downplays-internet-kill-switch&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG0itPOl2HZwJonVn4Z9OVeIC_6fA Jun 21, 2010 24520 32842 cyborg Mr Johnson said: It was a low moment to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. But I can now say to Arnie that in spite of all his doubts, and though there was a great deal of suspense until the final reel, Ken...