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Assignment 2 1 Assignment 2 Alexus McCurley-Shimer American Military University INTL 440: Cyber Warfare Professor Binversie December 14, 2023

Assignment 2 2 “Cyber warfare is usually defined as a cyber attack or series of attacks that target a country . ” (Imperva . 2021) Cyber warfare has become a very common thing that can happen in this day and age of technology . With the advancement of technology there is a greater threat that has begun to other countries . Cyber warfare has become a great threat to society as well as for the government . In this paper we will go over the different types of cyber warfare, the future of cyber warfare, and the defensive tactics that can be taken for cyber warfare . Espionage is a type of attack that is conducted to be able to gain the secrets of an organization . This is when countries are monitoring other countries without the knowledge of the other countries to gain the secrets . This type of cyber warfare can be conducted by using botnets or spear phishing attacks . These types of attacks are able to have the attacker gain access to sensitive computer systems . This id done before the attackers are able to gain the sensitive information . Sabotage seems to be similar to espionage with a different type of tactic . This typically effects government organizations if they have sensitive information . Which the government organization has to determine if the information is sensitive as well if there is a risk if the information is compromised . Some sabotage tactics can happen from something as simple as an upset or careless employee, or an employee that has an affiliation to one of the attacking countries . The idea behind sabotage is to either take information, destroy the information, or use that information as leverage to gain more information .

Assignment 2 3 Denial of Service (DoS) attacks is a common type of attack that is used to be able to gain the information that is desired as well as testing to see what a security system or network can take . This occurs when a user accesses a website and is flooded with fake requests which makes the website have to handle these types of requests . These types of attacks are able to disrupt important operations and the systems as well as blocking access to sensitive websites . This can affect many different type of individuals whether civilian, military and security personnel, or any research bodies . Electrical power grid is something that many of us do not think would be a large target and yet to create the most chaos it is the perfect target . This is when an attacker is able to gain access to a power companies’ system and be able to disrupt the power grid . This has been a very common threat as well as it will affect a lot of people . Reflecting on the amount of electricity that is used throughout the United States losing that access to electricity will affect a lot amount of people . Not only can this disrupt everyday life at individuals’ homes but it can affect the communications that individuals have as well . Propaganda attacks are not something that you would think that would affect cyber warfare but it is a large participant . These types of attacks are attempting to be able to control the minds as well as the thought of individuals that are in the fighting country or are fighting for the targeted country . Propaganda is utilized to be able to expose the embarrassing truths . As well as to tell lies to make people stop trusting the country they are in and then side with the enemy of the country .

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