Word: cyberattacks
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...taught us that the spectrum of potential threats is as wide as the imagination. The same could be said for vulnerabilities to the computers we depend on. Families must guard their computers against novice vandals planting viruses or against more advanced intruders leeching your computing power to launch a cyberattack on someone else. Despite the spate of devastating viruses this year--Slammer in January, Blaster and Sobig in August--the threat has evolved past the 17-year-old hacker, past the lone thief who steals and reveals credit-card data. Businesses must now watch for organized-crime groups adept...
...planned publication of junior-high school textbooks that still present a watered-down version of Japan's military aggression has provoked official protests from China, the temporary withdrawal of South Korea's ambassador and a South Korean cyberattack that crashed the Japanese Education Ministry website in March. The message that the rest of Asia takes from these episodes is clear: Japan still doesn...
...improved air defenses and better air cover, camouflage and deception--more military assets hidden in hotels and schoolhouses or buried deep for protection. And these states will be seeking their own deterrent in the form of longer-range missiles with chemical or biological warheads as well as terrorist and cyberattack capabilities. Pentagon strategists call that kind of warfare asymmetric--which means that even small nations with the right weapons and technologies will be able to pose very real security threats to big powers such...
...another example of the dangers of the electronic age. The original story on Foxnews.com described the attack as "the latest in a recent wave of cyber-vandalism that has already targeted cnn.com," and the New York Daily News said Clinton's chat had been "victimized by a cyberattack...