cyber warfare

cyber warfare
cyber warfare UK US noun [U] INTERNET
the activity of using the internet to attack a country’s computers in order to damage things such as communication and transport systems or water and electricity supplies: »

The use of cyber warfare can destabilise financial systems, the telephone system or the energy grid.

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Cyber warfare has fundamentally changed national security because an attack can come from anywhere.

See also HACKTIVISM(Cf. ↑hacktivism)

Financial and business terms. 2012.

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