Web Security Expert Warns Of Cyber World War

http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16101158

By Sam Kiley
security editor
Sky News
November 01, 2011

A leading internet security expert has warned that a cyber terrorist 
attack with "catastrophic consequences" looked increasingly likely in a 
world already in a state of near cyber war.

Eugene Kaspersky is not given to easy hyperbole. But the Russian maths 
genius who founded an internet security empire with a global reach, 
clutched at his thick mop of hair with both hands.

"I don't want to speak about it. I don't even want to think about it," 
he said.

"But we are close, very close, to cyber terrorism. Perhaps already the 
criminals have sold their skills to the terrorists - and then...oh, 
God."

Speaking privately at the London Cyber Conference, Kaspersky told Sky 
that he believed that cyber terrorism was the biggest immediate threat 
to have emerged to confront nations as diverse as China and the US.

"There is already cyber espionage, cyber crime, hacktivisim (when 
activists attack networks for political ends) soon we will be facing 
cyber terrorism," he said.

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