A fascinating  paper about Cyber Weapons. Recommended. Please check the historical examples: from the 1982 Soviet gas pipeline cyber attack, to Israel's 2007 cyber attack to blind the Syrian air defence system and to Duqu (2011). FYI, David

http://www.rusi.org/publications/journal/ref:A4F43D3E174ADF/

 

Cyber-Weapons

Feb 2012, Vol. 157, No. 1 By Thomas Rid and Peter McBurney What are cyber-weapons? Instruments of code-borne attack span a wide spectrum, from generic but low-potential tools to specific but high-potential weaponry. This distinction brings into relief a two-pronged hypothesis that stands in stark contrast to some of the received wisdom on cyber-security. Maximising the destructive potential of a cyber-weapon is likely to come with a double effect: it will significantly increase the resources, intelligence and time required for development and deployment – and more destructive potential is likely to decrease the number of targets, the risk of collateral damage and the political utility of cyber-weapons. This article is available for free. Please click here to access the full text. (PDF)