WORLD governments need a cyber weapons convention like those for chemical and nuclear arms, computer security expert Eugene Kaspersky warned...........
Cyber warfare had bumped cyber crime from the top of his list of the most pressing security issues facing internet regulators. Cyber weapons now posed as grave a physical threat to the world's infrastructure and industrial complexes as conventional weaponry, and were much cheaper to produce.
Mr Kaspersky was referring to the development of malicious software specifically designed to damage industrial control software. The most famous of recent examples was Stuxnet, which destroyed an Iranian nuclear facility.
Cyber weapons can damage a physical object as badly as a traditional weapon........
Stuxnet was ingeniously designed to damage the Iranian plant's Siemens-built industrial control systems and software for its centrifuges and render it inoperable.
The most dangerous and most critical issue is cyber weapons, cyber sabotage and cyber terrorism........
Cyber weaponry needed comparatively little funding to develop, and office space and internet connections were often enough. They only need their engineer's knowledge, their inside information about the target and that's it........
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