The enemies of Western civilisation don’t need bombs and tanks any more, cyber experts have reported. They can bring about our destruction without leaving their desks.
Cyber attack against western countries and global business firms has reached new, “alarming” levels, intelligence officials have revealed. These attacks, coming from unknown and untraceable sources, have even attempted to penetrate such highly protected targets as the UK Foreign Office. What was once a nuisance has become a new kind of warfare. At stake are military secrets, the security of financial caches and the personal security of millions of taxpayers. Some experts have dubbed GCHQ, the British intelligence headquarters the “fourth service”, along with army, navy and air force.
Apart from the obvious danger of having classified information compromised, concentrated attacks might be able to crash the cyber networks that control air travel, banking services and telephone communications.
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