Russia faced the largest-scale denial of service attack in history.

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Denial of access attack means that the server will bomb service-request simultaneously that it doesn't have time to serve the customers. The simplest version of the denial of service attacks is to use the bot network that is used for sending even billions of ping-commands to the targeted IP address. 

That thing can cause problems. The specialty of denial of service attacks is is that they are easy to control. That means when the attacker will order the system stops the attack immediately. That means that the targeted systems can paralyze for a certain time. 

Because of those regular users cannot reach the service that they want from those homepages. All the time of the server goes to answer those ping-commands. Then another version is that the data traffic will just drive to a certain IP address. And that closes the data line for service. 

But there is another thing that the denial of access attack can mean. Port scanning is similar action.  During port-scanning, the attacking system tries to find if there are open gates to service. A denial of service attack can use to force the targeted system to change its IP address. When the system changes its IP address. There is a possibility that the attacker can slip the malware that opens the gate to the system. In this version, the computer virus is connecting to "echo request code". 

The denial of service attack can target the root servers of the Internet. The entire Internet will not probably fall. But parts of it can paralyze. And that means there is the possibility to deny access to the mission-critical servers at the right moment. 

The denial of access attack is one of the things that can risk also national security. That kind of attack can target the servers that are controlling air defense and other military systems. If the server will face this kind of attack. There is the possibility that the enemy will get a couple of minutes for the missile attack. In that case, the sudden coming cyber attack is one of the deadliest visions of the dangers for national security. 

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Day after the truth.

Day after the truth.

Day after the truth is one of the most interesting things, that mankind has ever faced. The thing is that on the Internet is full of ideas and writings, which can give material for many kinds of information, what can be false, and the thing is that even if there are many versions about one thing, there might not be true information in any of them.

Many people want to believe, that when the head of state, what people are elected is murdered or somehow injured, there is a conspiracy behind that case. When the head of the Stasi the East- Germany's secret police Erich Mielke died in the car accident, the reason for that was of course conspiracy or assassination. The reason for that kind of thing cannot be simply the driver, who was too tired for the drive.

And of course, Olof Palme couldn't die because of error, that somebody could shoot the bottles on the empty street, and the then Palme was suddenly coming in the front of the bullet. Or that bullet was not meant for anybody else than the prime minister of Sweden. That kind of thing is fighting against our opinions and attitudes, that the target for assassinator would be always the highest-ranking man.

The motive is always political, and nobody ever thought that the target could also be the psychiatrist, who has sent people to a mental hospital, and some of those people wanted revenge. Or the motive of the Kennedy assassination or murder can't be personal. That man could not use the power to take women, who somebody loved. So the motive could also be personal, even if the killer would use some tool, which will connect that case to political murders.

There is one thing, what we must realize when we are operating on the web. We must realize that the web is full of traps, and if we believe, that we are safe, we are at terrible risk. Blind fate and trust are things, what is worse than any spying tools could ever be.

If we cannot understand the opportunities and threats of the electric publishing tools, we must realize, that we are in trouble. And when we are thinking about the cyber attacks, Finland would be a good gate to make the disinformation and false information attacks. That means that those servers would install to Finnish territory, and they can be used to confirm the world, that the Finnish government supports net trolls and other kinds of things.

That is the wors threat, what we can see in the scenarios, what are handling cyber threats. In those scenarios small and neutral state, what have goodwill with many nations offers the place, where attackers can keep their servers. In this case, the state, what wants to make the attack can operate those servers by using a remote control from their own country.

Or the operators would stay in the embassy and operate servers, which might be in the flat on the opposite side of the street. This is one threat, what we must realize when we are handling the cybersecurity. We must realize, that those operators want that people believe, that they are operating under the control of many states. And they can use another state as the platform for their cyber operations, which can turn the reputation of the state dirty.

Problems with cyberdefense

Problems with cyberdefense

Cyberdefense is a complicated thing, and one of the greatest problems in that area is would the other side of the operation use it's best tools for handling enemy operation. So when some state is under the cyberattack, should it use physical force like bombing the targets, where the cyberattacks come, and in this kind of cases, the attacking computers can be remote-operated, what means that the attackers themselves are not wounded even if the smart weapon hits the target.

But when we are thinking possibility, that some operators would put the malicious tool in the Linux operating system, and that operating system would be used in the tactical systems like missiles and trolling servers. Would the operator uncover that it has access to every system, what is using that operating system, or rather saying what is the scale of the cyber- and other attacks, when that ability should be used?

If some operators can shut down every tactical system of the enemy by destroying the kernel of the operating system, it would cause very big troubles for the enemy offensive. And the other problem or threat is that the numbers in the systems like cannon and smart bomb targeting algorithms would be changed, and the systems would be lost their accuracy.

The one part of the cyberattacks can be cyber sabotage and cyber assassinations. The cyber sabotage can be that the centrifuges of the nuclear enriching process are adjusted wrong, and in the worst scenarios that thing would cause spontaneous fission, and nuclear explosion in the laboratory.

And in some cases, the algorithm that detects the people by their key cards or biometric access data would be turned to the assassination tool. That means when the targeted person would step in the elevator, the break will turn off, and that means the end for that person. This kind of thing might be devastating and horrifying scenarios in the cyber threat.

That kind of thing must be noticed, when the system is planned. And the thing is that that the most vulnerable systems are protected systems, which have the only couple of users. The thing that increases the level of a vulnerability is that the systems are supposed being safe. And there is no public data about the codes, what are making those programs.

If somebody could pass the firewall and have the source codes of the system, that can allow creating a virus, that cannot detect by using a normal firewall or antivirus software. The thing that those systems are located in the secret laboratories, and they are not updated makes them vulnerable, and the personnel that is operating those systems might be highly trained, but they might not experts in the cybersecurity. And if there is no firewall in the laboratory, the infected mobile telephone can slip the malicious software inside those systems.

But when we are looking at the cases, like when Israeli aircraft lost from radar during an air raid to Syria the reason for that is probably not necessary be the cyber attack. The military forces around the world have been tested plasma-shields or so-called echo-radiation, which means that the radar impulses just turn away from the front of attacking aircraft. Plasma ionized gas is more effective for that purpose because it affects every frequency of radio transmitting.

And the target can be found by using laser scanners and other optical sensors. But things like computer viruses are also a very good way to increase the effect of things like radars. The program code can simply install or involve the radar transmitting, and that means that it would give more effect to that system if it can infect targeted things, but if the infection is not successful the radar can use to locate targets.

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