Cyber threat to national economy is an emerging menace. Countries world wide have started realizing this and have taken their stand. What was once a war on the land is getting shadowed as history. The new sophisticated warfare has opted for cyber weapons as their gadgets. For example the same blog has mentioned about Federal Trojan and its capabilities. The Trojan was used to intercept skype transactions and other such online transactions.
The emergence of Stuxnet as repainted the domain with cyber warfare capabilities. Stuxnet by the way has been named as one of the dead least cyber weapon with classical capabilities. It was first reported some where in mid-June by VirusBlokAda, a small security firm based out of Belarus, The worm dubbed as one of the groundbreaking piece of malware, spreads through windows vulnerabilities targeting large-scale industrial control systems. Tireless efforts of various antivirus vendors helped in establishing the fact that Struxnet was in fact holding about four numbers (4) of Zero day threat and were very specific in targeting SCADA machines of a specific make. Craig (McAFee) defines Zero day threat as the availability of an exploit with in the same day of the disclosure of a vulnerability.
With the advent of Struxnet, the world has entered the era of cyber warfare empowering the countries to manage the war from within the four walls of the command control center.
-----Understand your network and baseline it
(Introduction to High Performance Network, TMH)
