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Military powers 'using Internet to spy and plot digital attacks'
The world's most advanced military powers are using the Internet to spy on their enemies and prepare digital attacks against rogue targets, a leading cyber security expert said yesterday. "When there's a major cyber incident it's very difficult to prove most of the time who did it," said Richard Clarke, former White House adviser on national security and cyber threats. "There are incidents, I think, where governments are involved, doing either reconnaissance or testing out concepts, probing for weaknesses."Clarke said he suspects Russia and China are the most pervasive users of Internet for intelligence-gathering on suspected enemy states and plotting ways to use the information for military purposes. "Maybe the US too," he told a security conference Clarke worked for the last three US presidents as a White House national security advisor. He resigned after the September 11, 2001 attacks on US and has been a vocal critic of the Bush Administration's anti-terror and Iraq campaigns. His latest comments come as network security experts report a growing sophistication of attacks on business and government websites, either knocking them offline for long periods or cracking their defences to steal trade secrets. Posted by: Fred 2004-11-07 |
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