[Network World] Last week Russian tanks rolled into South Ossetia while Russian bombers were taking out critical communications infrastructure. But even before the first tank rolled across the disputed borders, another war was brewing in cyberspace.Armies of hackers started attacking critical cyberinfrastructure in Georgia. A counter-offense of Georgia hackers fought back to control major routing exchanges. Then a disturbing escalation: Georgian hackers were able to take control of Russian strategic launch capabilities. The Russian defense AI was defeated and forced to begin the launch sequence of ICBMs toward strategic targets everywhere. At the last moment, a Russian teenager with top-secret network access gained over an open Wi-Fi in his high-school network was able to persuade the Russian AI to back off by showing it the futility of war through a game of tic-tac-toe. Oh, wait a second — that’s a movie plot! None of this actually happened.
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Georgia Cyberwar Overblown
Last week Russian tanks rolled into South Ossetia while Russian bombers were taking out critical communications infrastructure. But even before the first tank rolled across the disputed borders, another war was brewing in cyberspace.