Imagine a scenario where the entire world was engulfed in war. Where there were no bombs, no soldiers on the ground and not a single trace of a fight whatsoever. The earth looks dead with a blanket of darkness draped across the world from the lack of electricity. There are thousands upon millions of people dying from the lack of basic necessities like clean drinking water, and food. Not from guns or any weapons that can physically harm people. Without any electricity there is no way to develop new cures to diseases so that a large amount of the earth's population will be killed from sickness.
The world is obsessed with technology and activities in cyberspace, they have become inseparable from it. From Twitter to Instagram and Facebook people of all ages are now able to connect with people from …show more content…
This is when a network is overloaded with hundreds of thousands of thousands of packets of information. That resulted in little or no internet usage for Georgia and even some websites were inaccessible. On February 1989, hackers were able to hack into the Pentagon and ruin millions of personal and pay records, inventory reports, parts lists and other documents from many different military services. These cyber attacks can impact millions of people and can be done from across the world. If done right a massive cyber attack can even have the power to destabilize large populated areas. (Yan L., Page 1)
In the cyber world there are a few major threats to the United States for example countries like China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. As the world stands today it would not be wise for the United States and China to go to war because of how much both countries depend on each other from an economical standpoint. Although it is not impossible because China is not part of NATO, if China were to start cyber attacking the United States it would more than likely result in some type or counter attack by the United