Abstract
This paper presents information derived from peered reviewed works on the topic of cyber warfare that was gathered using the Virginia Wesleyan College Online Library. Cyber warfare is often categorized with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons as a potential weapon of mass destruction (WMD). Cyber warfare is at its basic level the gathering of electronic information. The term cyber warfare is often exploited to describe a new type of warfare and to create the notion that computers and networks are a new battlefield. Habitually, especially in pop-culture, this leads to an enlarged version of an imaginative story which many stand to benefit from. This paper aims to shed light on such hoaxes and hypes while telling the story of cyber
This paper presents information derived from peered reviewed works on the topic of cyber warfare that was gathered using the Virginia Wesleyan College Online Library. Cyber warfare is often categorized with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons as a potential weapon of mass destruction (WMD). Cyber warfare is at its basic level the gathering of electronic information. The term cyber warfare is often exploited to describe a new type of warfare and to create the notion that computers and networks are a new battlefield. Habitually, especially in pop-culture, this leads to an enlarged version of an imaginative story which many stand to benefit from. This paper aims to shed light on such hoaxes and hypes while telling the story of cyber