Security Expert Warns of Cyber World War

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Cybersecurity expert Eugene Kaspersky warns that the threat of a cyberterrorist attack with “catastrophic consequences” is a real and present danger made all the more probable in a world that is nearly in a state of cyberwar. “There is already cyberespionage, cybercrime, and hacktivism–soon we will be facing cyberterrorism,” he says.

U.K. prime minister David Cameron, speaking at the recent London Cyber Conference, also stressed the potency of the cyberwar threat. “Every day we see attempts on an industrial scale to steal government secrets–information of interest to nation states, not just commercial organizations,” he said. “Highly sophisticated techniques are being employed.” Cameron promised that the response to these threats will be as strong as the response to any other threat to national security.

The United States and Britain used the conference to outline principles that they hope will form the basis of international cooperation in Web governance, wherein states would work collaboratively on issues such as security and copyright protection without imposing additional strictures on users. U.K. foreign secretary William Hague noted that whatever disagreements come out, the rapid development of the Internet means that discussions of its future and governance must migrate to an international platform.  Conference report