From Sudan to cyber, secret war with Iran heats up

[Gerald]

(Reuters) - From a suspected Israeli airstrike in Sudan to cyber warfare in the Gulf and a drone shot down over Israel, the largely hidden war between Iran and its foes seems heating up and spreading.

Despite months of speculation, most experts and governments believe the risk of a direct Israeli strike on Tehran's nuclear program stirring regional conflict has eased, at least for now. But all sides, it seems, are finding other ways to fight.

For the US and European powers , the main focus remains on oil export sanctions that are inflicting ever more damage on Iran's economy.

But the Obama administration and Israel have also ploughed resources into covert operations - a campaign that now appears to have prompted an increasingly sophisticated Iranian reaction.

With Iranian hackers suspected of severely damaging Saudi oil facility computers and a suspected Hezbollah drone shot down over Israel, tactics and tools once seen as the sole purview of the United States are now clearly being used on both sides.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/06/us-iran-covert-war-idUSBRE8A50G420121106


Note: Tue Nov 6, 2012 9:39am EST

[Gerald]

Clearly decisive factors in the future, technology will become very clear, and advanced,it is true, it is already there, but it will be much better.

[Stealhead]

Cyber warfare is already big it is not the future it is now.The next "big" war is going to start that way wait and see it has already been used in smaller conflicts like the Russians back in 2008
they sent cyber attacks on the Georgian infrastructure some of these attacks came from all over the world obviously people who had been paid by Russia though they might have known who was paying them.A military can function without the technology if it needs to a nations commerce in most cases cant.

[Gerald]

Cyber warfare is already big it is not the future it is now. I know I deal with it, every day.