Cyber- War

In the article "Cyber War" written by Patricia Smith she talks about how invaders from Saudi Arabia and America go back and forth sending viruses to each other to affect each other’s government systems.
She shows that there isn't much a war with guns and weapons, that normal people can send you virus's in computer's and mess things up for America. In the future there won’t be more fighting, the people hacking America can hurt more American's in different ways.
On August 15 an attack happened by hackers going into Saudi Arabia's computers. On that day, about 55,000 people were home preparing for a Muslim holiday when hackers sent out a virus. The virus erased 75% of Aramco's factory data.
This practically started the whole cyber war between America and other top countries.
Richard Clarke who was a White House counterterrorism official said "It proved you don’t have to be sophisticated to do a lot of damage; there are lots of targets in the U.S. where they could do the same thing. The attacks were intended to say: 'If you mess with us, you can expect retaliation.' "
Richard is right. Almost anybody can create a virus and send it in an email or something you don’t have to be a top scientist to affect somebody's computer system. The viruses sent to Saudi Arabia and other places are more high tech than an ordinary person's virus. But a virus can be made by anybody is the point.
The U.S. becomes more vulnerable to these viruses with so much social network and kids doing so many things on computers now days. This has Washington worried about more cyber wars.
Leon Panetta, a Defense Secretary, states that the U.S. "might be facing a possibility of 'cyber war'."
Computers aren't just infected with viruses on a holiday and Saudi Arabia isn’t the only place that sends attacks. China and Iran are also two of America's biggest sources of cyberwaring.
China sends attacks daily to America. Trying to steal Pentagon and corporate secrets, not trying to harm anybody. Iran is trying to hurt America though.
America thinks that Iran is after the attack sent to Saudi Aramco and is behind taking off line internet banks. Such as Wells Fargo, and PNC. Other online banks such as Capitol One and BB&T were interrupted.
One day something really bad is going to happen. Technology is only getting better and the situation will only get worse.
If we are getting so many attacks daily, sending them back is not always going to help. It's only going to make things worse. Maybe the government should try to talk it out with these countries and settle things down. If that doesn't work there are other ways.
War is not the only answer.