Finding the New High Ground in Cyber War: Malware as an Instrument of War
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Guy Philbin
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Tobias R. Philbin
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.
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