Weapons of mass disruption: the threat of cyber warfare

Weapons of mass disruption: the threat of cyber warfare

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by Paul Davis

The next big war may not involve missiles, bombs or gunfire.

The next war may simply involve a cyber attack that shuts down our national power grids, leaving us with no electricity. no Internet, no clean water, no food supply and no central government.

“We really need to understand that that if electricity goes down, we are not back in the 1970’s, pre-web, we are back in the 1870’s, pre-electricity grid,’ former CIA Director R. James Woolsey told a group of reporters, current and former government officials, and technology experts at the International Spy Musuem’s kick-off of their cyber warfare gallery, Weapons of Disruption.

I covered the kick-off for Counterterrorism magazine and I heard Woolsey and other speakers discuss the threat of cyber warfare.

You can read my piece on cyber warfare and my interview with the Spy Museum’s historian on the history of cyber warfare here