POS 468 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Battlespace, Stuxnet, Denial-Of-Service Attack
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Cyberspace - 5th battlespace (air, sea, land, space) Act of war - possible physical response, potential pearl harbors . Use of networks to gain access to targeted information. Likelyhood of loss of human life slim, but financial infrastructure. Floods website with fake traffic, shuts down site from operating. Iranian uranium enrichment facility attacked/sabotaged by code slowly degrading performance of machines enriching uranium. Formed in 1998 as a response to attacks on ethnic chinese in jakarta. Difficult to get absolute certainty of attribution to espionage or infiltration. The 1999 bombing of the chinese embassy in belgrade by nato forces incited a torrent of. These attacks consisted mainly of distributed denial of service operations that were meant to disable or slowdown both us gov and nato websites. Widely believed to be done by red hacker alliance. Only april 1, 2001 a us navy ep3 reconnaissance plane collided with a chinese f-8iim fighter jet.
