Source: VanityFair.com
Michael Joseph Gross has written an eye-opening article on the battle amongst nations and non-state actors in cyber space. The battle is raging with major implications, but 99.9% of us are utterly unaware.
Their eyeballs felt it first. A wall of 104-degree air hit the cyber-security analysts as they descended from the jets that had fetched them, on a few hours’ notice, from Europe and the United States. They were in Dhahran, in eastern Saudi Arabia, a small, isolated city that is the headquarters of the world’s largest oil company, Saudi aramco. The group included representatives of Oracle, IBM, CrowdStrike, Red Hat, McAfee, Microsoft, and several smaller private firms—a SWAT dream team for the virtual realm. They came to investigate a computer-network attack that had occurred on August 15, 2012, on the eve of a Muslim holy day called Lailat al Qadr, “the Night of Power.” Technically the attack was crude, but its geopolitical implications would soon become alarming.
You may read more at http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/07/new-cyberwar-victims-american-business. Also worth a look is Gross’s April 2011 Vanity Fair piece, “A Declaration of Cyber-War,” at http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/04/stuxnet-201104
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