Rules Of Cyberwar Set Out For First Time In Nato Manual -- The Telegraph
A Nato handbook laying down the rules of cyber warfare has said governments should refrain from attacking hospitals and nuclear plants.
The manual is the first attempt to set out how international law applies to online attacks by the state, and warns that online attacks could lead to full-blown military conflicts.
The handbook, the result of three years collaboration between international experts for Nato's Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, defines a cyber attack as one that is “reasonably expected to cause injury or death to persons or damage or destruction to objects.”
An online attack on an electricity grid resulting in fire is one example of the way that cyberwar could bring about real physical harm.
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WNU Editor: NATO's cyber-warfare manual is here.
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