E-mail bomb versus truck bomb —Musa Khan Jalalzai
The cyber war between Pakistan and India is another development in South Asia. In 2008, a group of Indian hackers attacked the website of Pakistan’s ministry of petroleum and natural resources while in December 2010 some 36 websites were hacked by the Indian cyber army.
By the end of 2010, a series of events and rapidly developing threats of cyber terrorism across Asia and Europe created an alarming situation. To counter the looming threat of cyber terrorism, many states have decided to make some immediate improvements in their cyber security strategies. Indian cyber attacks against Pakistani state institutions, Pakistan’s cyber attacks against Indian trade and industrial firms, Chinese cyber attacks on both the US and UK government’s computers and the consecutive cyber attacks of Russia and Iran against Baltic, Arab and Central Asian states gives us a dismal message of full-scale modern technological war in the near future. E-mail bombs are considered to be a more effective weapon than the conventional truck bombs, as they can destroy important and sensitive data of any civil or military institution within seconds. (read more)
