We tend to think of warfare in terms of bombs and foot soldiers, but the digital age has opened up a new front to defend.
of all significant cyber attacks on federal systems since 2004, accounting for a total of 65 attacks . We are already in the midst of a global cyber war, and we just turned a proxy war into an actual war. Iran is sure to retaliate against U.S.
In 2017, the NSA lost control of EternalBlue, a cyberweapon designed to navigate through a backdoor in’s operating system that the NSA never told them about. In 2018, this software was used in the WannaCry attacks that infected 200,000 computers across 150 countries, crippling National Health Services hospitals in England and Scotland. Later that year, this same exploit was used in the NotPetya attacks that completely debilitated a million computers in Ukraine.
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