In his book Cyberspies - The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage, Gordon Corera present a thorough timeline of espionage form the great nations of the world. From the first code breaker of World War I to the hackers of today. Since all government are good secret keepers the more you go back in time the more you have access to declassified information. For the actual reality, he relies on leak information and extrapolation but it is still very relevant and credible.
According to the BBC journalist, the next war will likely fought not only on terrain but also in cyberspace. In fact the war is already started in someway. All the great nations are equipped with armies of hackers searching for weaknesses, placing logic bombs all around waiting to strike. The link between cyberworld and real world is becoming stronger by the day. The next wave of innovation will likely be in the form of Internet of Thing. All devices connected to the Internet...
By linking our houses, our building, our critical infrastructures to the Internet, we open the door to the script kiddies, the small hackers but also to the state-sponsored hackers. In case of a major conflict between two states it is likely that attacks would be made on domestic and public targets. The overall lack of security in networks puts us all at risk of becoming a target.
As for now, not unlike the arms race of the cold war, every body is planning and looking for weakness but no one wants to make the first move knowing that an attack would like be answer to the Nth level. The cyberworld is still a bit more tricky because of the pseudo anonymity. The attacker must be identified before any reply and that may not be easy to do.
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