Cyber Warfare

CYBER WARFARE

Date: March 20, 2016

CYBER WARFARE

Cyber warfare is also commonly referred to as the cyber attack. It involves both the attacks and the counter cyber warfare. By definition, it is an intentional breaching of a person’s or community computer system with an intended to fraud money or steal knowledge from the system. Therefore, it involves manipulation of the computer systems, disabling or to wipe out the aggregate information contained in the system of equipment. It has thus been a stern challenge in the economic and national and the world security. As thus, it has become a primary concern for all business people protecting their ideas not to be leaked, in the military due to the protection of national security and also by the government which has to keep it a secret of all what is happening within it. The issue of the cyber attacks has not been one event but something that has occurred over time as a result of inventions and innovations by the governments and security agencies. It was triggered by the need to safeguard one's interests and at the same time keep secrets that if they leak the competitors or the enemies can use them against you.

One of the periods that can be credited to giving birth to the period of developments that led to cyber attacks is 1918 all the way to 1939 whereby there was increased military revolution. One of these advances was the use of modern aircraft, weapons, and military strategies and, of course, the technology (Andress & Winterfeld, 2013). It is said that necessity is the mother of all inventions and therefore after the First World War rulers all over the world, the military, political and the business leaders knew that there was an immediate need to develop more technological strategies to make them stronger than their opponents. As a result, when the Second World War started these new devices were used in the war thus making it more lethal than even the First World War.

Due to the utilization of these...