Imagine a war in which the combatants are invisible and the weapons they bear are hidden in trickery and stealth. Now picture that war being waged on a battlefield consisting not of desert fields but of thousands of ragtag computers in bedrooms, dens and corporate cubicles across America. These battles are waged through virus-compromised computers tethered to the Internet, and the casualties reach into the billions of dollars as targeted corporate Web addresses or key government Web servers are brought to their knees. Welcome to the age of cyberterrorism.
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Preparing for the Superworm at the Front Lines
Posted by: Jack M. Germain February 6, 2004 05:32 AMImagine a war in which the combatants are invisible and the weapons they bear are hidden in trickery and stealth. Now picture that war being waged on a battlefield consisting not of desert fields but of thousands of ragtag computers in bedrooms, dens and corporate cubicles across America. These battles are waged through virus-compromised computers tethered to the Internet, and the casualties reach into the billions of dollars as targeted corporate Web addresses or key government Web servers are brought to their knees. Welcome to the age of cyberterrorism.