Wireless Information Warfare: Is it A New Platform for Terrorist Attack and Communications?
Information warfare changes as technology changes. Technology is used both as a digital sword and a digital ploughshare. While industry and government work to develop the democratisation of the Internet and its many supporting technologies, including wireless appliances and networks, terrorists, drug cartels, organized crime and many others use these technologies as attack tools and in scams and fraud that span the scope of the non-digital world.
There is a clear distinction to be drawn between legitimate and illegitimate, right and wrong, uses of e-commerce and technology tools. But as so often occurs with new technologies, sometimes the lines of distinction are blurred by a lack of familiarity with the technology by those who seem to proliferate for the good of society. Unfortunately, this is the case with wireless technology. For example, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and many technology companies envision a wireless world in which the have-not nations become the recipients of wireless networks.
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c10188) has announced the addition of Wireless Information Warfare: A New Platform for Terrorist Attack and Communications to their offering
Not only is the growth potential nearly unlimited, such networks can be deployed swiftly, bringing opportunity to every nation. These, clearly, are laudable goals. However, the law of unintended consequences illustrates how much these institutions do not know about security, and why these wireless deployments can help create wireless attack platforms from which terrorists and others may operate with anonymity and impunity. The integration of Internet and mobile technologies has created a sea-change momentum that has a decided dark underside. Once again, the rapid advance of technology is dramatically outpacing the ability to secure it. While history shows that this dynamic is nothing new, these deployments are creating new threats that have not been well-defined, let alone considered as exploitable vulnerabilities and how to prevent them.
This market report examines the threats associated with Wireless Information. Topics covered include:
-- The Unreliability of Information
-- Setting the Stage for the Wireless Cyber Threat
-- Converging Threats
-- Security Versus Technology: The Classic Conflict
-- Wireless Proliferation
-- Wireless Technology and the United Nations: An Unintended Consequence
-- Critical Infrastructure Risk and Wireless
-- Wireless Threats and the Future
-- Wireless Responsibility
-- Conclusion
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