E-warfare

The time has come...

Fellow IT crowd: electronic espionage and malicious takeovers are upon us.

The following article-link takes up the subject about cyber espionage on a global scale: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13731776/Tracking-GhostNet-Investigating-a-Cyber-Espionage-Network

A 10-month investigation uncovered what seems to be a Chinese cyber-spy network crossing the globe. Further investigation through fieldwork, technical scouting and laboratory testing uncovered that the "GhostNet" can consist of as many as 1.295 individual computers residing in 103 countries. At least 30% of these can be considered high-value political, diplomatic, economic and military targets.

Some malicious crackers are surely having fun harvesting quite the bot-farm I must say...

And if the technical advisors are right, the Chinese can do ALOT more damage than just steal sensitive information.

We are now living the nightmare a lot of sci-fi literature predicted years ago...

Ph34r!

I'm not saying this affects everyday people at the moment.., but it's a wake-up call to remind us that we're not totally 100% secure online, what-so-ever...