Cyberwarfare In America

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Looking at above, they are the some of important and critical target which comes under cyberwarfare in America. As the term cyberwarfare is not just only applicable to the inside activities of country itself thought it’s not limited to that; cyberwarfare also includes the attacks which are made by other nation. One of the most targeted nation among the countries is United States of America and the most of them comes from the China, including satellite in the space are also attacked by them, with supporting example “In January 2007, China used a grounded-based missile to destroy a defunct weather satellite in orbit some 500 miles above the earth’s surface” (Douglas, and Melik 138). In America, most of their services are depended on the satellites

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