Cyberwarfare: Technologically Interconnected World

Cyberwarfare Since the 1900’s with the start of the Internet, the world has become more and more dependent on it. The word cyberwarfare is very well known across the world in the current days because everyone lives in a technologically interconnected world. It is defined as actions by a nation-state to penetrate another nation 's computer or networks for the purposes of causing damage or disruption; also we can include non-state actors such as terrorist groups, companies, etc. After this new development, who need a gun when one has a keyboard? Their impacts and effects can be devastating for an organization or a state. There are two major activities of cyberwar that are so different in the type of works they realize; both are very dangerous for our operating systems. Cyberattacks are nonkinetic and offensive operations. Cyberespionage tries to spy inside the systems. On the one hand, there is the activity known as cyberattacks. Cyberattacks are any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or organizations that target computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks or personal computer devices. They use various means of malicious acts usually …show more content…
The first one was made by Russia. They attacked Estonia with the purpose of threatening national security. Some banks, media and servers were severely affected. The second one was produced by an unknown hacker against the social media called Twitter. This individual wanted to silence blogger Georgy Jakhaia, who speaks openly against the Russian government. It affected so much of Facebook and the online social media LiveJournak, making them almost lose service as well. Thirdly, there is an attack committed by WikiLeaks. Their victim was Master-Card. They wanted to punish Master-Cart for not processing donations to WikiLeaks; also, this affected the Swedish prosecution authority offline due to a prior