CyberSpace: the latest battle front

Stage set for the latest in cyberspace front of modern day war

I wouldn't want to call it excitement but I have this high feeling now that it has become quite official that we now have a new front line in modern day warfare - Cyberspace. How?

For the first time, a country's military has announced that it uses cyber space to gather intelligence and also attack the enemy network. It is implicit a call for all the nations of the world to begin to look into that direction.
It is just about a week ago, the Israeli military also graduated its first class of 'cyber defender', a team of high techie soldiers whose work is for fight and defend Israel's cause on the cyber space. You would expect that these guys should have received the best there is of network and system attack, defense and hacking. They are the first to officially step into this new frontline of conflict.

Also, it has been reported that the Iranian government has budgeted about $1 billion to launch herself as a force on this front. Well, who will blame her after being a victim of a likely state-organized attacks like Stuxnet, Duqu and most recently Flame.

Prior to now, we have seen virus attacks like Stuxnet, Duqu and flame as covert ways of military reconnaissance or attack or have seen hacking at a corporate level. Well, its wholly different now.

In no distant time, we will begin to see more countries formalize this unit in their countries arm force. Great days ahead, in my opinion.

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