Over the last eight months, the storm worm has been taking the Internet by storm, infecting over 20 million machines. Currently the authorities do not know the objectives of the worms author. A botnet of this size could cripple anything connected to the Internet.

According to Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky, international disputes are flooding the Internet and are seriously bordering on the possibility of a “cyberwar”. Currently NATO does not reconize Internet attacks are a form of military action.

128 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks were launched on Estonia’s police and government web sites back in April. This attack seems to be related to the decision to remove a monument dedicated to Soviet Soldiers. The Russian secret service was accused of launching this attack on the Estonians. The Estonian Minster of Defense, Yaak Aaviksoo has asked NATO to amend its agreeemnt on military protection to reconize the attack as a form of military action, or in other words “cyberwar”.

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