In CyberWar by Patrica Smith, she talks about how the United States might be facing "Cyber Pearl Harbor". And how it could wreak havoc on our computer networks, and possibly our lives.
The world's most valuable company is Saudi Arabia's state owned oil company, which is valued at an estimate of 7 trillion dollars. On August 15th more than 55,000 employees from Saudi Arabia was home celebrating the Muslim holiday. That gave the hackers a perfect time to do damage. At 11:08 75 percent of Aramco's PCs had a virus on them.. Emails, documents, and spreadsheets were all erased and replaced with images of a burning American flag. When the virus stopped it made 30,000 and more computers useless. The attacks left a message to United States and other nations saying that the world is vulnerable to cyber attacks.
The biggest source of cyber war concerns are Iran and China. China, mostly try to steal Pentagon secrets, they don't do damage. But Iran is trying to. American officials say that Iran had computer attacks on America's largest banks, like Wells Fargo and PNC bank. Last May, Iran said that they have been attacked by a Virus called "Flame". It deleted data from laptop computers, from Iranians who are leaders and scientists. Iranians say that the attack may have come from America or Israel.
I don't think cyberwar is a great thing, but, I do think it's better than actual fighting a war. In the article Richard Clarke said, "It proved you don't have to be sophisticated to do a lot of damage." I like that quote, because I think its true.. You don't have to be over the top smart to make an attack to damage computers. You just have to know how to do it and what your doing. Cyber war is a big problem and it wouldn't hurt if people help stop it.
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