14 DAY TRIAL // If you're a fan of security news, then you might have heard that Estonia suffered a severe cyber-attack that somewhat downed their economy which was relying a lot on the Internet. Rumors have it the Russians did it, and that this is a new form of conflict - cyber-war! Americans and Russians have never been the best of friends, and the US does not want to take any chances of a cyber-attack wreaking havoc in their economy. And no matter if the Russians were or were not behind all this (the Estonian attack, I mean), it is good to be secure, no matter where the aggression comes from. That is why they have started to install even more security measures.
The Tech University of Ruston, Louisiana is bound to make a difference when it comes to new means of protection against cyber threats, as The Shreveport Times informs. This is serious, since it's concerning the future of warfare. They will work together with the US Airforce and they are set to get great results as they have a lot of supercomputers at their hands as well as lots of funds being issued to them. This is great! Finally, cyber-security is treated with the respect it deserves. It only pains me that Estonia had to be hit like that in order for more people to realize what a threat this is.
The thing with Internet attacks is that not only can they cause a high amount of damage, but they are stealthy as well - just like in Estonia's case, where nobody knows who hit them. So that is why a very important thing is to locate the aggressors. Anyway, this new form of war is not to be clean if you ask me - just imagine, one country launches a cyber-attack on another, and then the second one finds out where they launched it from, and decides to bomb their servers. How does that sound?