One of the biggest threats to 21 st century international peace is invisible. It recognizes no borders and knows no rules. It can penetrate everything from the secrets of your government to the settings of your appliances. This is, of course, the threat of cyberattacks and cyberwarfare.
“During the coronavirus pandemic, cyberattacks have surged, according to watchdogs. This isn’t just Zoom-bombing or scams. It’s also a wave of schemes, likely by national intelligence agencies, meant to steal information about the development and production of vaccines. Attacks on the World Health Organization soared five-fold early in the pandemic.”
“But it’s not hard to imagine a cyberattack on a hospital network, a power grid, or a dam that kills thousands of people and forces even more from their homes. How can those responsible be called to account? And what would it take to make future such attacks much less likely?”
“Will it take an event that inflicts that much human damage for governments and tech companies to sit down and hammer out cyber-rules of the road?”
National security experts that we interviewed for The Black Sky Event warn of the danger from a cyber attack on our critical infrastructure. In most cases it is unattributable and we lack the proper rules of engagement to respond.
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Source: The invisible threat to global peace
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