Today’s reinforcement taking place in the virtual space – there operate hackers working on behalf of governments. The world leader in terms of security against such attacks is Israel. That’s where the entity operates 8200, which cyberagencja-secret Israeli military intelligence, responsible for the recognition of communication and breaking ciphers, suspected to develop the most advanced malicious code in history – Worm Stuxnet. Stuxnet was discovered in June 2010. It is the first known worm used to spy on and reprogram industrial installations. One former cyberżołnierzy from the unit says that it is about creating a “network monitoring products” to governments, and the action he and his colleagues determined the rule “quickly and brazenly” – to gain information and action was more than a few hours. Now their valuable skills to sell to the whole world …
The principle of cyber attacks is: the best defense is attack. Its purpose is not to be at all military systems to the war became a reality. Lack of sufficient power – and everything stops working. The film shows simulated hacker attack on the headquarters of municipal services in the German Ettlingen, whose clients are about 20,000 households supplied with water. The watering devices are programmed electronically directs them at a distance. When they were designed no one took into account the possibility of cyber attack and therefore protection against this type of threat is practically no. Specialists from overcoming network security needed only three days to get inside the system. And then just press a button to disconnect the water …
The target may be any management system connected to the power supply and computer or control systems.
The British document presents a new arms race unfolding in Web. From the secret laboratories in Israel and China, the NSA hacking and conventions in Las Vegas, the film shows how a growing real danger of computer attacks on power plants, factories and security systems of individual army or NATO.
Plus footage from Israel and China and interviews with former officers of interviews.
the premiere of the British documentary “the War on the network” on Monday, 13 June at 23:50 in TVP2.
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