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1 Wars Games By: Chris Hill

2 What is a Cyberwar? Cyberwar is a type of warfare that is all electronic attach instead of a physical attack which involves the use of computers and the Internet. Cyberwar is becoming more of a treat for the international community, which has made many nations start to run simulations to prepare themselves for a real attack. It is feared that Nations are becoming more and more vulnerable do to increase use and dependency on technology.

3 How can Cyberwar be used? propaganda, espionage, and vandalism shut down websites disrupting governments and industries attack equipment and infrastructures using electronic systems access computer systems with sensitive data or being used for very sensitive tasks interrupt a nation's electrical grid scramble data about military movements attack government computer systems

4 Is the US ready to defined against a Cyber attack? On February 16, 2010 the US failed to defined against a mock Cyberwar. For the simulation the ballroom of the Washington's Mandarin Oriental Hotel was turned into the White House Situation Room and covered by a false television network simulated called "GNN." The scenario was thought up by Michael Hayden the former CIA Director. The attack started with a malware as a free March Madness application for the smartphones, and once activated, it began to spread; First it incapacitated the use cellphone networks, then landlines, then the Internet, and then finally bombs were exploded in some gas pipelines and power stations. This crashed the entire East Coast electrical power, air traffic was brought to a stand still, and commerce was at a standstill.

5 Mike McConnell, the former Director of National Intelligence stated, "We're the most vulnerable. We're the most connected. We have the most to lose." And the US would defiantly lose if we got involved with a Cyberwar.

6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4MDjcpPfvE Who should defined the US from a Cyber Attack? How should we respond to the Attacker? How can we defined against a Cyberwar


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