Cybersecurity/ Resisting potential radio-electronic warfare

To be able to effectively resist US cyber threats and adopt an international code of conduct in the cyber space Russia must devise symmetric offensive information technologies, experts polled by TASS said after Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine published another portion of disclosures by former US National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden.

According to the former secret service employee the NSA develops and spreads malware capable of putting out of order potential enemies’ crucial infrastructures, such as banks, power and water supply, industrial plants and airports. The armed forces’ control systems are the main target. Der Spiegel says up to 40,000 of NSA staff are involved in electronic spying and cyber wars. The agency’s overall spending on cyberspace-related software in 2013 exceeded one billion dollars.

Russia should devise symmetric response to US cyber threats