Cyberwar

Also known as cyberwarfare, cyberwar is a term used to describe a type of conflict that takes place in the future where fighting and/or terrorism takes place in the virtual world and the Internet instead of the real world. Below are some examples of what many believe could happen during cyberwar, cyberterror, or a cyberattack.

• Attacks on government and/or military run websites gaining confidential or classified information, disrupting or disabling the agency from doing everything it was meant to do, and/or creating backdoors for future attacks.
• Attacks on a individual or collection of websites that prevent them from being accessed.
• Attack on a news site or other information site spreading fake news about events not happening causing small breakouts of false hysteria.
• Attacks on major utilities such as power, water, gas, etc. causing disruptions or complete outages.
• Attacks on financial institutions, banks, stock trading, etc. causing disruptions, outages, and/or false information.
• Attacks on major backbones, routers, or other sections of the Internet causing disruptions in all Internet traffic.

Also see: Cyber, Hacker, Security definitions