A No0bs guide to Cyber Warfare and Blogs
In today’s world, technology is everywhere. Without it, you wouldn’t have the capability to read this blog post. Weirdly enough, that is the intro and TLDR of this post.
Blogs
To keep it simple, Blogs (short for web logs), are a medium for everyday people to post online diaries. The most popular blogs often offer cutting-edge news and commentary and can range from professional publications to a group of students being made to slap their keyboard with their foreheads to create readable content for their module. The key point being, blogs are hosted on information systems and contain subjectively “important information” from a person or a “body’s” point of view.
What do Blogs have to do with Cyber Warfare?
To be honest, more than you realise. To understand what cyber warfare is, we must first understand what a cyber attack is. A cyber attack can be defined as an assault by cybercriminals using a series of computers/information systems against networks and other computers/information systems. These “assaults” consist of malware, phishing, ransomware, denial of service, among other methods. To break it down for my no0bs, bad people can do very bad things to other peoples computers.
Now we can get to Cyber Warfare. Cyberwarfare is a term to generally describe a cyberattack that has the backing of one nation with the intent of hurting another.
So how can a nation hurt another through assaulting a blog?. Think back to the core terms that define a blog, information deemed important by a body. I can think of 26 different ways off the top of my head on the effects of a cyberattack on a blog but I’ll list 2 here for you no0bs to understand the danger of cyber warfare.
- Internet News Blackout
If a nation discovers an efficient way into the information systems and computers used by news outlets and important news related blogs, they can simply stop the spread of urgent news significantly on the internet. Let’s say country X wanted to invade country Y for the craic and kill an unnecessary amount of civilians for example, if they have infiltrated news related outlets they can disrupt news spreading in country Y moments before country X attacks. Next to nobody would be able to evacuate and other countries might not be able to scramble a response in time due to no news of the attack to prevent a catastrophe in country Y.
2. Fake News Takeover
If a country wanted to raise mass uncertainty in another country and had committed a cyber attack that planted malware in that country’s news related outlets. They could release terabytes of misinformation and straight nonsense onto those platforms which would make that country’s residents not able to distinguish real news from fake news and raise mass uncertainty. Imagine this happened during a country’s presidential election. The country would be in shambles which would open doors to other attacks both physical and cyber.
Keep yourselves educated no0bs x
