The Internet is increasingly being used to spy

Over 100 countries are expected to use the Internet to spy. About this columnist writes the Financial Times of London Maya Parmer (Maija Palmer) with reference to the report of McAfee, the company engaged in information security technologies.
' Among security experts with whom we talked, there is absolute consensus, and the reduced figure, trustworthy, shows just how low the barriers to start doing it. All that is needed - a few specialists in computers ' - said Ian Brown, a leading researcher and McAfee security expert at Oxford University.

The report says that the number of incidents of cyber- espionage and computer attacks on critical national infrastructures facilities is rapidly increasing worldwide.

This year there has been a record number of incidents: different countries have reported attempts to penetrate their defense of information systems or attacks aimed at undermining the work of key organizations, such as air traffic control services, financial institutions and service utilities.

' There are signs it is clear that the intelligence community around the world are constantly experiencing a network of governments of other countries, looking for strengths and weaknesses and developing new ways of gathering intelligence ' - said the report, Peter Sumner, an expert on information systems at the London School of Economics.

One of the most notorious incident occurred in April, when the Estonian authorities have accused Russia of carrying out a series of cyber attacks that hit sites and networks such public institutions as the presidential administration, ministries, parliament and police, as well as web-based resources of political parties. In addition, the target of attacks are news portals and banks.

The sequence of events in Estonia was like a scenario in which some government checks that he can get away with. On the whole incident is printing the false flag '. We have seen how the terrorists carried out those ' test of defensive barriers ' anticipation of physical attacks, Yael Sahar points of the International Institute for counterterrorism in Israel.

In July, a computer hacker attack, the Pentagon has undergone. Pentagon officials have suggested that the attack are the armed forces of China. It is reported that Chinese hackers attacked the computer systems and the Ministry of Finance of Germany. China strongly denied any involvement in these incidents, but said earlier that conducts activities related to kibershpionazhem.

It is also reported attacks on government computers in Australia, New Zealand and India.

' This is the first year when the government openly accused other governments in the computer hacking their systems - Brown have. - This is a sign of worsening severity of the problem '.

In September, the U.S. Air Force said they plan to create a control that will be prepared for war in cyberspace.
According to the materials FT.