From: Forbes
Sarwant Singh Contributor
Should another world war occur, there will be two new domains of conflict in addition to air, naval and land forces: space and cyber warfare. The latter will be the first-ever, man-made domain of conflict, while the others are provided by nature. The highest aerial position is always a basis of competitive advantage in a conflict, be it for communications, observation, navigation or sniper fire. Space, therefore, provides an inherent military advantage. As the number of people who have access to the Internet reaches 5 billion, the world will see a 20-fold increase in the number of hackers globally, causing an increase in cyber warfare.
Incidents like the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities – a first of its kind where the Stuxnet virus was aimed at industrial programmable logic controllers, most likely by Israel or the U.S., or both – or the attack on Sony PlayStation and its online entertainment site – which took the company’s network down for about 10 days and cost them about $180 million in lost revenues – create a disturbing situation. In addition, these hackers are becoming more sophisticated in their advanced abilities to hack satellites. The Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka did just that. They hacked and began controlling one of Intalsat’s satellites for the disbursement of their own propaganda. So, if nuclear power plants in Iran and satellites in space are hackable, what about a car?
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