Our next Pearl Harbor IN Cyber World.........

Hackers, worms, viruses, WikiLeaks, Stuxnet: Every day, in every corner of the world, we learn of advances made by those who penetrate supposedly secure computers.

I believe we are witnessing previews of the next war – a war against the computers which have made our lives so much easier, so much more complicated and so much more vulnerable.
Hacking used to be done by talented teenagers as a prank. It was the stuff of Hollywood movies. Then there was industrial espionage, done for money and competitive advantage.

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack

It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot. HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought he had unmasked the hacker hordes of Anonymous and was preparing to name and shame those responsible for co-ordinating the group's actions, including the denial-of-service attacks that hit MasterCard, Visa, and other perceived enemies of WikiLeaks late last year.

DRDO gears up for Cyber War

Evolving conditions of threats have pushed the Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to enable themselves in the area of cyber warfare. "We have evolved from border issues to economic issues to cyber warfare," said V K Saraswat, scientific adviser to the Defence Minister. But "old disputes continue to remain", he said. He said they would get robust technology and trusted platforms to make their networks 'invincible'.

Sri Lanka:Cyber War

Sri Lanka's Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya today said although the physical war waged for 30 years has come to an end, the warfare has not come to an end by eliminating terrorists from this country as the 'cyber war', the war on information highway, is still continuing.

Delivering the keynote address at the Galadari Hotel in Colombo on "Strategic Dimensions of Cyber Warfare", at the 'Cyber Warfare Workshop - 2011,' the Army Commander said the Cyber Warfare is an emerging threat to the entire world.