Ukraine gives glimpse of future conflicts where attackers combine computer and traditional assaults.
KIEV, Ukraine—Three days before Ukraine’s presidential vote last year, employees at the national election commission arrived at work to find their dowdy Soviet-era headquarters transformed into the front line of one of the world’s hottest ongoing cyberwars.
The night before, while the agency’s employees slept, a shadowy pro-Moscow hacking collective called CyberBerkut attacked the premises. Its stated goal: To cripple the online system for distributing results and voter turnout throughout election day. Software was destroyed. Hard drives were fried. Router settings were undone. Even the main backup was ruined.
The carnage stunned computer specialists the next morning. “It was like taking a cold shower,” said Victor Zhora, director of the Ukrainian IT firm Infosafe, which helped set up the network for the elections. “It really was the first strike in the cyberwar.”
WNU Editor: This WSJ article gives a good idea of how Russia will fight the next major war. This type of warfare will probably also be used by the Iranians and the Chinese. What is needed is a system to first identify the attackers, and then launch an immediate counter attack. But it looks like the US government, the military, and major industries .... they are all ill prepared for these attacks.
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