The US has launched a cyber arms race
The first stage of a competition for cybernetic weapons has been launched on the American continent. The U.S. Army plans to buy malware to destroy computer networks
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In addition, a special committee of the Pentagon is developing an electronic board to oversee the protection of information in strategic locations. Washington, who denied until now these development projects virtual weapons, has indeed begun to prepare for possible cyber attacks. But Russian experts say computer wars have already begun, Le Matin du Sahara reports.
According to experts, cyber wars are already conducted regularly. Thus, Iran has suffered a cyber attack in May. Tehran discovered that computer systems of its governmental structures lost data. Experts have identified a virus-spy, Flame, which was behind the attacks.
Symantec analysts started looking into an incomprehensible computer worm nicknamed Stuxnet. Two major waves of spreading the worm were noted: the first version in summer 2009 and the second in spring 2010, writes C. Konstantin Bogdanov RIA Novosti. The Stuxnet virus has been used to attack Iran's nuclear program.Stuxnet and Duqu are comprehensive tracking devices that can intercept passwords, track key presses, record sound from an in-built microphone, took screenshots, gathered information on processed files and analysed network traffic. This information was then encrypted and downloaded to an external master server.
The development of an effective cyber weapon capable of putting industrial systems out of action could have disastrous consequences, Bogdanov notes and the United States and the West could be especially vulnerable,. He notes that "those who have launched this race for cyber weapons are throwing stones while living in glass houses." He likens the technological breakthrough of the viruses used as a weapon to the nuclear bomb dropt on Hiroshima in Japan at the end of World War II.
Mikko Hypponen,an authority on cyber crime wrote in the New York Times: “By launching Stuxnet, American officials opened Pandora's box. They will most likely end up regretting this decision.”
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According to experts, cyber wars are already conducted regularly. Thus, Iran has suffered a cyber attack in May. Tehran discovered that computer systems of its governmental structures lost data. Experts have identified a virus-spy, Flame, which was behind the attacks.
Symantec analysts started looking into an incomprehensible computer worm nicknamed Stuxnet. Two major waves of spreading the worm were noted: the first version in summer 2009 and the second in spring 2010, writes C. Konstantin Bogdanov RIA Novosti. The Stuxnet virus has been used to attack Iran's nuclear program.Stuxnet and Duqu are comprehensive tracking devices that can intercept passwords, track key presses, record sound from an in-built microphone, took screenshots, gathered information on processed files and analysed network traffic. This information was then encrypted and downloaded to an external master server.
The development of an effective cyber weapon capable of putting industrial systems out of action could have disastrous consequences, Bogdanov notes and the United States and the West could be especially vulnerable,. He notes that "those who have launched this race for cyber weapons are throwing stones while living in glass houses." He likens the technological breakthrough of the viruses used as a weapon to the nuclear bomb dropt on Hiroshima in Japan at the end of World War II.
Mikko Hypponen,an authority on cyber crime wrote in the New York Times: “By launching Stuxnet, American officials opened Pandora's box. They will most likely end up regretting this decision.”
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