Source: Simon Tisdall, The Guardian:
International Institute for Strategic Studies says cyber attacks could become weapon of choice in future conflicts
Cyber-warfare attacks, such as the targeting of activists’ emails in China recently, are a growing threat, according to security experts.
Cyber-warfare attacks on military infrastructure, government and communications systems, and financial markets pose a rapidly growing but little understood threat to international security and could become a decisive weapon of choice in future conflicts between states, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies warned yesterday.
IISS director-general John Chipman said: “Despite evidence of cyber attacks in recent political conflicts, there is little appreciation internationally of how to assess cyber-conflict. We are now, in relation to the problem of cyber-warfare, at the same stage of intellectual development as we were in the 1950s in relation to possible nuclear war.”