Risk of Cyber Warfare

Although the survey did not take place, the desire of Iran insists that the explosion was the result of sabotage committed by their enemies. “The case of pure accident, as the officer was moving ammunition. Nothing to do with Israel or the United States,” said Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi, head of Iran’s military personnel.

In reality, the world understands now that’s an example of how information warfare (cyberwar) is no longer a story of fiction, but it has become a real part of the chess world.

And Iran is a country that often become the target of cyber attacks on Israel – which is fully compatible with the United States – particularly in relation to Iran’s efforts to enrich uranium, a nuclear power component.

Stuxnet malware attacks on Iran’s nuclear program at the enrichment facility at Natanz in 2009 and is one of the tests. Stuxnet is able to sneak in and sabotage the system, slowing down or speeding up the engine, run it well for the maximum speed. This will destroy the spin speed, or at least weaken the ability of the instrument for the production of uranium fuel.

Malware most advanced and most powerful ever made throughout history in many circles is considered the most intelligent attack. The recognition did not come from anyone, but the world leader in industrial safety, such as Symantec Corp. (USA), Kaspersky (Russian), and F-Secure (Finland).

A note: This attack can only be done with the support of governments in some countries. This is because Stuxnet consists of complex computer programs that require different skills in the manufacturing sector. It is very advanced and requires enormous resources to create it. Not many groups are able to launch an attack like this.

Symantec experts estimate making Stuxnet need to employ five to 30 people in six months. It also takes knowledge of industrial control systems and system access to quality testing. Again, this mengindikaskan Stuxnet is a project that is organized and supported a great background.

“We really never seen a worm like this before,” said Liam O’Murchu, a researcher at Symantec Security Response. “The fact that this worm can control the physical operation of the machine must be very worrying.”

Stuxnet own 100 percent of cyber attacks aimed at destroying the industrial process in the real world. Many security experts agree: Israel and the United States to engage in cyber attacks.

And, of course.

February 2011, the Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, reported during a farewell ceremony in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Gabi Ashkenazi, former Chief of Staff, said Stuxnet is one of the great success when he led the institute.

In May 2011, should know, a weekly PBS television station, the United States, also issued a statement Gary Samore, White House coordinator for the control of small arms and weapons of mass destruction. “We are delighted that they (Iran) have problems with their centrifuges us and the United States and its allies will do everything possible to ensure that they face a more complicated problem,” Samore said.

The fifth dimension

Cyber ​​world is now even been established as the fifth dimension of warfare – after the earth, space, sea, air and outside. Innovations in technology have changed tactics in the conflict in modern times and that the virtual world to become the latest battleground.

Many high-end devices have been created for this purpose. Aided by technological advances and electromagnetic communication and information technology and electronic format, must be created and made to various state governments to see the greatest threat of cyber warfare in the future.

Alon Ben David, military analyst of the Israeli Channel 10 said: “If you have some smart people and a good computer, you can do many things that do not have planes, tanks, army troops You can enter other countries, causing serious damage without leaving your chair ,..”, he said.

In an exclusive report in the French daily Le Monde journalist Nicky Hager reveals a successful installation of the Urim belong to the unit 8200, which is one of the world’s largest installations of surveillance, which corresponds to the installation of the U.S. Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, England.

Facilities built in the last ten years has been responsible only for the task of monitoring the international talks on the Intelsat network and the telephone relay station between the great powers. But now also oversees the conversation via Inmarsat satellites, taking advantage of submarine cables.

According to insider sources, the installation of computers in the Negev is scheduled to be able to sort the words and messages in various telephone conversations, emails and diintersepnya data. The intercepted messages were successfully sent directly to the headquarters of Unit 8200 at Camp Glilot in the city of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv.

This is where messages from a variety of languages ​​it was translated and sent to Mossad agents in other countries and various other interested bodies.

What should be recorded 8,200 units have the power of the elite forces sibernya. The efforts of Israel and the obsession with obtaining a cyber-strong force has started since 1990. At that time, hackers (hackers) from Israel presented only two options: prison or joining the unit.

Now, the results are not kidding. Consultant to the United States’ share of the group as one of the greatest threats to the computer world, as well as China, Russia, Iran and France. Stuxnet is one of the tangible evidence.

Kraft cyberwar

Strength of an army is certainly the possibility of cyber-attack, defense and dependency of a country on the Internet. In the book “Cyber ​​War” of the U.S. computer security expert and professor at Harvard University, Richard A. Clarke and Robert A. Knake short the country’s strength against cyber warfare.

In the United States, although both have the ability to attack, not the ability to decide on the Internet while attacking, because most of the largest Internet network owned and operated by the private sector. Instead, China has the ability to delete all Internet networks in the country when times have been attacked. China is also the possibility of limiting the use of transport, where access to users who are not too worried.

But the country is considered the most capable of surviving in the event of cyber war, according to Clarke, is North Korea. The country is able to cut its Internet connection with more than China. One could say that North Korea would not have suffered losses due to cyber attack from an enemy, because there is no essential infrastructure such as power plants, railroads, or pipelines, which connect to the Internet.

Then, what about Indonesia?

Salahuddien Muhammad, vice president of computer security incident response in Indonesia known Internet Infrastructure (ID-SIRTII) states cyberwarfare in that country is not new. Such as wars and political tensions in other cyber relationship between Indonesia and other countries, Indonesia has begun to commit cyber-war in a decade – the cyber war with Portugal in 1999, with Australia, Malaysia, to cyber with a few years.

Unfortunately, one of a group of hackers Antihackerlink singer, Arief Wicaksono, the ability of cyber-activists said, Indonesia could still be valid. As the power of hackers in the country in general are strongly influenced by the quality of Internet infrastructure and tariffs.

“In terms of quantity may have been many incidents that come from Indonesia. However, in terms of quality, skills hackers Indonesia is still far from optimal,” said Arief, who is now the Coordinator of Research and Development Antihackerlink.

Therefore, he said, a cyber-war attacks in Indonesia is still limited to deface or alter the appearance of the presentation of a web page. Attacks of this type can be spelled only disturbing, but fairly harmless.

But with the growth of the Internet in Indonesia is so fast, he believes is a more strategic approach, infrastructure and public services will increasingly depend on information systems, technology and Internet networks, making it vulnerable to cyber attacks.

According to Salahuddin, customers are now regular Internet users in Indonesia is about 60 million. Approximately 90 million mobile phone users can access the Internet. Over the next two years, said Didien, Indonesia, Internet users estimated to rise to about 150 million people.

If this were so, he warned, “The threat of information warfare and cyber attacks will increase and become the main battlefield in the future, including in Indonesia.”