Cyber attacks on countries and corporations are likely to increase in the next decade, according to a majority of internet experts surveyed for a new report by the US-based Pew Research Center.As part of its Digital Life in 2025 research project, the organisation canvassed 1,642 experts on the question of whether by 2025, a major cyber attack will have “caused widespread harm to a nation’s security and capacity to defend itself and its people”.
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The Internet has become so integral to economic and national life that government, business, and individual users are targets for ever-more frequent and threatening attacks.In the 10 years since the Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center first asked experts about the future of cyber attacks in 2004 a lot has happened:
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Internet experts see ‘major cyber attacks’ increasing over next decade
Cyber attacks on countries and corporations are likely to increase in the next decade, according to a majority of internet experts surveyed for a new report by the US-based Pew Research Center.