IWar

iWar, is the term used by NATO to describe a form of Internet-based warfare. [ [http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2007/issue4/english/analysis2.html NATO: “iWar”: A new threat, its convenience – and our increasing vulnerability] ]

iWar comparisons

iWar is distinct from what the United States calls cyber war or from what China calls informationalized war. These refer to sensitive military and critical infrastructure assets, and to battlefield communications and satellite intelligence. Rather, iWar refers to attacks carried out over the Internet that target the consumer Internet infrastructure, such as the websites providing access to online services. [ [http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2007/issue4/english/analysis2.html NATO: “iWar”: A new threat, its convenience – and our increasing vulnerability] ]

iWar attack

iWar is conducted by a denial-of-service attack, which bombards a high volume of information requests to overwhelm a computer or networking system on the Internet.

iWar in the future

The two trends of increasing vulnerability over the Internet and ease of attack make conflagration of iWar probable.

2008 Russia-Georgian conflict

The 2008 South Ossetia war heralded the arrival of iWar. [ [http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hVL10PQbHe9-ecb7X9FX-di0bSRQ The Canadian Press: Russia-Georgian conflict heralds arrival of iWar] ]

References

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Further reading

*Wang, Xiangsui et al. (2002). "". Pan American Publishing Company. ISBN 0971680728

External links

* [http://www.iwar.org.uk/ IWS - The Information Warfare Site]
* [http://www.psycom.net/iwar.1.html Institute for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare (IASIW)]