Security mogul Eugene Kaspersky has declared cyber warfare as "the internet's greatest threat."
Kaspersky believes that cyber warfare has leaped over threats such as cyber crime and privacy issues to become the most dangerous issue facing the web. He spoke at the Australian Cebit convention about the potential damage of cyber super weapons and the future of internet security.
"Cyber weapons can damage a physical object as badly as a traditional weapon," Kaspersky was quoted as saying during his keynote presentation in Sydney.
"It is a realistic scenario against any country because we all have the same systems. All it takes is the wrong people with the right motives."
While both the public and private sector have been scrambling in recent years to protect critical infrastructure against cyber attacks, experts have suggested that most hypothetical attacks would likely be limited in scope to a local or regional scale.
