Finding the New High Ground in Cyber War: Malware as an Instrument of War

Philbin Guy () and Philbin Tobias R. ()
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Philbin Guy: Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Philbin Tobias R.: University of Maryland University College, College Park, MD, USA

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 2013, vol. 10, issue 1, 371-378

Abstract: Intelligent agents known as malware are rapidly becoming the tool of choice for nations, criminals, and terrorists in finding the high ground of the 21st Century’s cyber battlefields. Malware is making information control the capital of peace and the currency of cyber war.

Keywords: algorithms; asymmetry; cyber agents; information control; invisible policy; malware (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1515/jhsem-2012-0041

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