There's a war brewing in cyberspace. Make that a Netwar, so dubbed in Countering the New Terrorism, a book published last year by The RAND Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit research group formed during World War II.. . .. There's a war brewing in cyberspace. Make that a Netwar, so dubbed in Countering the New Terrorism, a book published last year by The RAND Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit research group formed during World War II. It'll be a long time before remote-controlled robots fight battles to keep intruders out of office buildings (though unconfirmed reports circulated among security newsgroups in September did claim that a company in Thailand has invented a gun-toting robot directed through a remote-controlled camera). But many players, including the government, RAND and Winn Schwartau, a security analyst in Seminole, Fla., say this information war is already upon us. And in his Internet survival book, Cybershock, Schwartau claims that some private corporations are already launching military-style counterattacks to protect their interests. The link for this article located at ComputerWorld is no longer available. . Explore the rise of digital conflict in the online realm, alongside corporate strategies designed to combat cybersecurity challenges.. Cyber Warfare, Corporate Countermeasures, Netwar Strategies, Information Warfare. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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