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  • At an international cybersecurity conference being held in London this week, delegates warned that new cyber-attacks were being developed so quickly that there should be a nonproliferation treaty over their creation and use.

    Google phishing: Chinese Gmail attack raises cyberwar tensions 2011

  • The US government moved this week to classify cyber-attacks as "acts of war", while the defence minister Nick Harvey said on Monday that "action in cyberspace will form part of the future battlefield".

    Google phishing: Chinese Gmail attack raises cyberwar tensions 2011

  • The purported breach of NATO files comes two days after authorities in the United States, Britain and the Netherlands arrested 21 people they accused of mounting coordinated cyber-attacks against companies and organizations.

    Hackers Claim Breach of NATO Documents 2011

  • Those include large demonstrations, riots, terror and cyber-attacks, and attempts by rival North Korea to spoil the meeting.

    Security for G-20 Summit in Seoul Will be Unprecedented 2010

  • He could apply his game-theory approach to 21st-century threats such as terrorism and cyber-attacks.

    What if Nobel Prize winners ran the country? Ed O 2010

  • A quarter-million cyber-attacks every single hour are targeted on the Pentagon alone.

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen: An Ally in America Anders Fogh Rasmussen 2011

  • And a 2008 report in the National Journal cited Tim Bennett, a leading civilian cyber-terrorism expert, who claims on the basis of conversations with government cyber-security experts that Chinese cyber-attacks were responsible for the 2003 Northeast power grid blackout.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • And a 2008 report in the National Journal cited Tim Bennett, a leading civilian cyber-terrorism expert, who claims on the basis of conversations with government cyber-security experts that Chinese cyber-attacks were responsible for the 2003 Northeast power grid blackout.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • The security services warn that cyber-attacks are on the rise.

    Who should fight cyberspace's battles? | Peter Sommer 2011

  • Those include large demonstrations, riots, terror and cyber-attacks, and attempts by rival North Korea to spoil the meeting.

    Security for G-20 Summit in Seoul Will be Unprecedented 2010

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