Cyber Warfare

                                  CYBER WARFARE
AN ANALYSIS OF THE MEANS AND MOTIVATIONS OF
                          SELECTED NATION STATES




Cyber warfare involves units organized along nation-state boundaries, in offensive and defensive
operations, using computers to attack other computers or networks through electronic means.
Hackers and other individuals trained in software programming and exploiting the intricacies of
computer networks are the primary executors of these attacks. These individuals often operate
under the auspices and possibly the support of nation-state actors. In the future, if not already
common practice, individual cyber warfare units will execute attacks against targets in a
cooperative and simultaneous manner.

The purpose of this report is to provide a realistic assessment of the capabilities, means, and

motivations of selected nation-states to conduct a remote, computer-to-computer attack either

against the United States or against regional adversaries. We take as a given that there is no such

thing as “perfect” IT security. (Billio, 2004)

Reference

http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/docs/cyberwarfare.pdf