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Cyber Warfare

March 28, 2017

International conflicts are no longer only being conducted with conventional weapons; cyber warfare is on the rise. There's increasing concern that national elections are being manipulated.

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Ukraine provides an example of the damage cyber attacks can cause. Since war broke out in the country's east in 2014, there have been many a whole series of such attacks. In the presidential elections of May 2014, a group of pro-Russian hackers infiltrated the Ukrainian election commission's computers and spread fake projections. Energy companies, the railway and Kyiv airport have also come under cyber attack.