NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Botnet, Denial-Of-Service Attack, Intrusion Detection System
15 Aug 2018
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Complex societies and their armies are dependent on computers and networks. The more networked a society and its army are, the more vulnerable they are to cyber attacks. So far, cyber-attacks are a weapon of mass disruption rather than mass destruction, with military, economic, logistical, and emotional consequences. A future war will make use of cyber-attacks in support of broader military operations but a pure cyber war is unlikely. Secret data: classified information is intercepted and even tampered with. Disruption in the field: military activities by blocking, intercepting vital communications, or polluting them with false orders or responses. The defence industrial base paralysed or slowed down. Probing: testing the ene(cid:373)y"s syste(cid:373)s to discover their strengths and weakness that could be used in case of war. Vandalism: deactivation of defacement government or military web pages. State against state: over 30 countries have advanced and aggressive programmes for waging war by computer.
