Cyber Warfare: U.S. General Warns Of Danger From Terrorist ‘Dirty Bomb’ Attack

The most serious cyber warfare threats facing the West come from China and Russia, that much is undebatable, with Iran and North Korea a step or two behind. But now Lt.-Gen Vincent Stewart, former deputy chief of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, has warned that we need to urgently broaden our thinking. While in Israel for a counter-terror conference, Stewart talked with the Jerusalem Post, warning that Israel and the West are vulnerable to the cyber equivalent of a “dirty bomb.” In Stewart’s view, the West continues to underestimate the potential that such an attack might take place and its impact. Stewart singled out power grids as a particular danger, and one can only imagine the war-gaming and theorizing around such an attack within Cyber Command during his tenure. Stewart did acknowledge that Russia remains the most likely perpetrator of a broad scale attack, “viewing itself as a global power” and “Putin believing he is almost the czar.” As such, the limited deployment of cyber weapons by the U.S. was a cause for concern—an overly conservative attitude of the past.

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