A week ago, Telia was hit by a denial of service attack that got unusually large consequences. This time it was not just a specific goal that knocked out, such as government website – now you could not get online at all for Telia customers and the problems continued for several days.
Rumor has it that the reason was that the hacker group Lizard Squad subjected game company Electronic Arts for a denial, but it can also prove to be a much more alarming than disgruntled individuals in a loosely organized protest group that is behind the This nätat quilts.
And while IT security experts warn us that digital attacks on important social functions will become more common and more sophisticated, so talking military strategists cyber world as a new battlefield and create new military organizations only concerned with trying to meet cyber threats – or develop their ability to attack other states through cyber warfare.
Attack of the digital world has in recent years become so common, and so sophisticated that military strategists worldwide have begun talking about cyberspace as a new battlefield.
This is a development that led to the nations of the world started to develop specific strategies to defend against the new threat. Some nations have even set up new military organizations that simply directs its efforts against cyber world. But how serious are the cyber threats and how can we protect ourselves from them?
In the freelance journalist Kristoffer Gunnartz program from 2012 participates Roland HeickerŠo , information security expert and associate professor of military science at the National Defence College in Stockholm. Mathias Ekstedt Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Information Systems at the University of Technology in Stockholm. Anders Hansson , Head of the Computer Emergency respose Team at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.
The program is a rerun.
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