Cyberwar Threat In the early ages of the internet, not much was known regarding cybersecurity as much as it was a threat back then. While the previous documentary touched upon the dangers of hacking and the usefulness of cryptography, this next documentary, entitled CyberWar Threat, deals with the dangers of cybersecurity at a national and global scale.
Thanks to leaked documents courtesy of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we are able to uncover the details behind the National Security Agency (NSA) and much of their offensive tactics in cybersecurity protection. The NSA was otherwise known as the "hacking agency" responsible for the creation of the Stuxnet, but is now changing to the development of weapons. President Truman in 1952 proposed that the NSA should be all ears in eavesdropping on international phones and radios. The NSA's role transformed from a passive listener to an active spy when Gen. Michael Hayden became the the agency's director. It was also at this time that Pres. Bush ordered the NSA to prepare for a "full on war" after 9/11.
This brought upon the creation of the Cyber Command, known as the first cyber weapon, where hackers can control, screenshot, and turn out one's webcam at will, and use Zero-Day Codes–codes used against user vulnerability unbeknownst to a company or target. Stuxnet used five of the privacy-breaching codes to hack a private company is Hamburg, Germany to search for a certain product's model number.
While the destruction of Iranian centrifuges may have delayed Iran’s bomb program and forestalled an Israeli attack, the attack has opened a Pandora's Box, and now America's own critical infrastructure is vulnerable to retaliation and attack. With leading defense experts and investigative journalists who have probed the murky realm of criminal and strategic hacking, NOVA examines the chilling new reality of cyberwar in which no nation or individual is safe from attack.
We're living in an era, now, where we have to wonder whether people can cause damage with computer code that, before, they could only cause with a bomb.
– Shane Harris, Author of @War
Thanks to leaked documents courtesy of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we are able to uncover the details behind the National Security Agency (NSA) and much of their offensive tactics in cybersecurity protection. The NSA was otherwise known as the "hacking agency" responsible for the creation of the Stuxnet, but is now changing to the development of weapons. President Truman in 1952 proposed that the NSA should be all ears in eavesdropping on international phones and radios. The NSA's role transformed from a passive listener to an active spy when Gen. Michael Hayden became the the agency's director. It was also at this time that Pres. Bush ordered the NSA to prepare for a "full on war" after 9/11.
This brought upon the creation of the Cyber Command, known as the first cyber weapon, where hackers can control, screenshot, and turn out one's webcam at will, and use Zero-Day Codes–codes used against user vulnerability unbeknownst to a company or target. Stuxnet used five of the privacy-breaching codes to hack a private company is Hamburg, Germany to search for a certain product's model number.
While the destruction of Iranian centrifuges may have delayed Iran’s bomb program and forestalled an Israeli attack, the attack has opened a Pandora's Box, and now America's own critical infrastructure is vulnerable to retaliation and attack. With leading defense experts and investigative journalists who have probed the murky realm of criminal and strategic hacking, NOVA examines the chilling new reality of cyberwar in which no nation or individual is safe from attack.
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