Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Cyber Damage

How potent a weapon is hacking?
We are still in its infancy to say exactly.
But is can be a serious thing.
Viruses and Trojans are known to all.
Denial of Service attacks are the new things that raise their ugly head occasionally.
Then there is military and defense spying.
Obviously that will be done by governments. On other governments.
Manufacturer of F-16 and the like, Lockheed Martin,  has been targeted.
So has been Mitsubishi Heavy- a Japanese company making nuclear plants and missiles and what not.
The hackers managed to plant viruses onto 45 servers.
This could be very damaging for it has the potential of sending all of the info at these servers to the hackers.
Since Chinese script has been found in the viruses the pointers have pointed to the pointed.
And China protests that it has been a victim not the perpetrator.