HISTORY OF CYBER-TERRORISM ;ITS A GLOBAL CYBER WAR OUT THERE

ITS A WAR PERIOD !

David Irvine,“cold cyberwar”
"Irvine, the director-general of ASIO, knows Australian business and the government are engaged in a new, and irreversible, “cold cyberwar”, which the Americans have designated as the fifth and most uncertain defence domain."




President Obama cyberattacks should proceed
“Should we shut this thing down?” Mr. Obama asked, according to members of the president’s national security team who were in the room.
President Said  it was unclear how much the Iranians knew about the code, and offered evidence that it was still causing havoc, Mr. Obama decided that the cyberattacks should proceed. In the following weeks, the Natanz plant was hit by a newer version of the computer worm, and then another after that. The last of that series of attacks, a few weeks after Stuxnet was detected around the world, temporarily took out nearly 1,000 of the 5,000 centrifuges Iran had spinning at the time to purify uranium.




Kaspersky Lab "Red October"
Employees of anti-virus program developer Kaspersky Lab work at their company's offices in Moscow on March 10, 2011. Kaspersky Lab said Monday it had identified a new computer virus it dubbed "Red October" targeting eastern European countries that appeared to be collecting classified files using NATO and EU encryption. Kaspersky Lab said Monday it had identified a new computer virus it dubbed "Red October" targeting eastern European countries that appeared to be collecting classified files using NATO and EU encryption.

Leon Panetta "cyber-Pearl Harbor" 
Former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta  sounded the alarm. Panetta asserts that critical civilian infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack by foreign or non-state actors.
Panetta pushed the issue forcefully, invoking a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" to illuminate the threat. While name dropping China, Russia and Iran, Panetta is quoted as saying "They could derail passenger trains… They could contaminate the water supply in major cities, or shut down the power grid across large parts of the country."