The era of cyber warfare? Experts urge countries to agree on rules of the game

Recently, the so-called "Chinese military Hacking Report" released by Mandiante, the US cyber-security company, Mandiant the waves and worries about the wider relationship or the impact. So what is cyber warfare? What are the forms of cyber warfare? What is the current state of the network preparedness? What impact will it have on countries once cyber warfare takes place?

General Xinhua News Agency, Oriental Morning Post (blog, Weibo)

"Wake Up, America, China is attacking!" This is the latest warning from CNN. The February 20 American media was riddled with such strident noises after American internet company Mandiante accused the Chinese military of participating in http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/7956.html "> Cyber hacking attacks." The Associated Press reported that the Obama administration will publish a "preliminary but tough" sanctions, including fines and trade sanctions.

The more "radical" voice in the US calls on the government to "underline the red Line" on Internet issues. In fact, the United States is the only country in the world that officially uses the "Quake net" virus to launch attacks against other countries. The Chinese military's response to the accusation was very simply: the report was "without factual justification".

The ill-fated U.S.-China relationship is seen as the latest frontier for global conflict. The bigger worry is that a "cyber Cold War", more sinister than the nuclear age, is unfolding. Few people believe that China, with its great disparity in cyber power, will first "pull the trigger".

At present, cyber warfare is becoming an increasingly important combat style of High-tech warfare, it can bloodless the enemy's command and control, intelligence information and air defense and other military network systems, and can even quietly destroy, paralysis, control the enemy's business, government and other civil network systems, no war and bent people's soldiers.

The U.S. military believes that cyber warfare is a series of network attack and defense actions to disrupt and destroy enemy network information system and to ensure the normal operation of the network information system. Cyber warfare is divided into two categories: one is strategic cyber warfare and the other is battlefield cyber warfare.

Since the last century, countries in the world have been actively preparing for the Internet. At the same time, global cyber attacks are rising. Cyber warfare has become one of the five major security threats in the world, and no one can stand aloof.

Stuxnet, a worm deployed by the United States to attack Iran's nuclear program, has demonstrated the potential for such attacks to disrupt infrastructure. And if the hacker attacks the enterprise, even merely destroys the people to the network security confidence, may also cause the real economy the impact. It may not be as immediate a threat as a nuclear weapon, but its effects are exactly the same as the arms race and can still have devastating consequences for the real world.

The Financial Times reported that the United States and other countries should at least frankly acknowledge their involvement in cyber attacks. This does not mean revealing specific details of the action. The revelation of the Obama administration's deployment of Stuxnet may indeed have harmed U.S. national security. But the international community should start open talks on cyber warfare and agree on rules. The recognition of the existence of the cyber-warfare sector is the first step, similar to the previous approach to the issue of nuclear weapons. Such talks must involve the military.

According to Phoenix Satellite TV reported that the United States network forces are very strong, the United States has a force called the U.S. Military Network warfare joint function of the command, the headquarters funding in a few years ago to reach 1 billion dollars, which employs the elite of various universities. If there is cyber warfare, it will be bad for China and the United States because of the economic interdependence between the two countries. At the same time, the media also said that the cyber war in the end how serious, will produce results who do not know, because never happened in history. But the real cyber war is for the United States, China, the world, to avoid the good.

[Cyber warfare case]

French Navy internal computer virus intrusion

In January 2009, a computer in the French Navy's internal computer system was invaded by viruses, rapidly spreading to the entire network, once unable to start, and all the Navy fighters were grounded for two days because they could not "download flight instructions". Imagine that this loss and harm would be unthinkable if the computer network system in a certain system or domain of a country had problems or paralysis.

Cyber attacks on Yugoslavia in the Kosovo War

During the Kosovo War of 1999, the scale and effect of cyber warfare increased. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia used a variety of computer viruses and organized "hackers" to implement cyber attacks, so that some of the NATO military sites were blocked spam information, some computer network system was once paralyzed. On the one hand, NATO to strengthen network protection measures, on the other hand, the implementation of the network counterattack, a large number of virus and deceptive information sent to the South Army computer network and communication systems.

Russian hackers control Georgian network system in Georgia conflict

In the Russian conflict of August 2008, Russia can say that it has created a classic case of cyber warfare. Before the military operation, Russia took control of Georgia's network system, paralyzed Georgia's transport, communications, media and financial Internet services, thus opening the way for its successful military operations. Russia's cyber warfare has not been a real test, despite the strength of its cyber battles and the fact that its core technology is in the hands of Americans.