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cyberwarfare sounds like something straight out of Star Trek but actually

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[battleships firing near earth] it's very real and it's way bigger than you might think international political

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power games controversial secret operation cyberattacks on banks and

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governments yep it's all happening so what if cyber war look like today where

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do we stand well if the government can't stop kids from illegally downloading [little boy using a macbook]

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movies how will they stop cyber attacks short

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answer well they won't cue the creepy intro music from the

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Twilight Zone we don't want to be alarmist here cyber war probably isn't

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going to blackout the country in the next three weeks [big red cross through planet earth]

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plenty of people actually think what the danger of cyber attacks have been

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overhyped some say the damage of malware and worms is nothing compared to a real [troops jumping off the back of a wagon]

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hot war and its true that cyber war has indirectly led to killing

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at least not yet cyber war is actually a war of information

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it's about controlling and limiting and propagating information for political

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[men fighting in a war] ends we'll hear a few more ways to change the rules of war now first off

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it's nearly impossible to trace the original source of an attack unless the

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hacker is a bumbling oaf or is just being lazy [hacker sleeping by a laptop]

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reality check and this is hardly ever the case for attackers the other problem

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is that if the hack is traced it's more likely to be a loosely organization

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than a specific government entity in fact there's a whole group of hackers

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[person typing on a laptop keyboard] out there called anonymous who have released private information for

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political ends and crashed government websites just for kicks but nobody can

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find them or stop them we make some crack about them but well they're

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probably listening we love you guys no seriously we do well another huge issue [explosion in a wasteland]

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is that attacks outpaced defense generally speaking the tech and know how

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to attack other systems is further along than the defense systems are right now

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[a man frantically running around a man dressed in a suit] as government's get serious about cyber defenses spending though and starting to

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change blood-cell governments having a hard time keeping up with the nebulous

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Anonymous group of other people to work privately on this stuff they're usually

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[a snail moving slowly on a tree] snail pace isn't going to cut it any more government yeah want an example all

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right well in 2012 the US government shut down a site that hosted illegals

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torrents Anonymous launched DOS attacks on

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government sites in retaliation and tanked a bunch of sites including [department of justice flag]

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the FBI's website mom heres a baller for you how about another example of 2013

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private Chinese hacker companies nabbed a bunch of top-secret weapons plans from [blueprints of a top secret rocket]

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US government not good not good at all cyberspace is what's called the fifth

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theater for war there used to be four theaters for war land sea air and space

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[person typing on an electronic tablet] but now there's the entire internet and all the information we pour into it

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every day how about WikiLeaks the site that publishes confidential government

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and corporate information well they've released information about

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everything from Iraqi civilian deaths to Kenyan government corruption the [man stood in front of a warning sign]

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conditions at Guantanamo Bay while all these releases might not have killed

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anybody yet but they sure stirred up global politics unlike a bowl of

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porridge global politics is sometimes best left unstirred [a steaming bowl of porridge]

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