Computer and Information Security Handbook, 3rd Edition

Chapter 83

Cyber Warfare

Anna Granova¹, and Marco Slaviero^2     1University of Pretoria, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa     ²SensePost Pty Ltd., University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Abstract

The time we live in is called the Information Age for good reason: information is probably worth much more than any other commodity. Globalization, the other important phenomenon, has taken the value of information to new heights. On the one hand, citizens of a country now may feel entitled to know exactly what is happening in other countries around the globe. On the other hand, the same people can use the Internet to mobilize forces to overthrow the government in their own country. To this end, the capabilities of the Internet have been put ...