Importance of cyber warfare.

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The cyber warfare and the importance of it are now understood in the western military.  The best way to make lethal damage to the computer system is to use the logical bomb. In this case, the computer virus would be activated in the middle of the combat situation, what would decrease the ability to use the weapons. Another version of this operation is to change some codes inside the fire control system and delete the electronic codes of the master keys. And in this case, the computer would not recognize those keys. That means that the key would not activate the fire control computers, and that will be the very bad thing for the warship, what is under attack.


The question about cyber security is vital for military forces around the world, and in the worst scenario some person would paralyze a multi-million dollar warship by using a mobile telephone, and in the real world, that kind of threats would cause problems even for the security of the nuclear weapons.  The safety systems of those weapons are very good, and that means that hackers would not launch the missiles. But damages about this kind of attack might be very big, and in the critical time, that would cause the bad situation.


In this scenario, the person, who wants to sabotage the nuclear weapons of some state, would cause terrible damages for missile systems and decrease the strike capacity in the critical time. In this case, that person would use the nuclear weapons security systems against itself. That means that that operator would try to launch missiles without permission and orders, what means that those rockets would probably start. The safety system would deny those launches, but the rockets are unable to use. And if that would happen in critical time, would this cause threat to national security.


This would happen by using hacker techniques, where the hacker would just change the codes inside the nuclear weapon control computers. If the hacker could slip into the system, that person would able to change the launching code, or delete some code keys, and that would cause the situation, where the system would detect the launching as the unauthorized operation, and then the safety system would destroy those rockets. The warheads would not explode, and the missiles would not fly anywhere, but when this happens in the critical situation, would it cause the terrible situation in military forces.