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Cyberwarfare: The Digital Battlefield

Will future wars be fought online? What measures can be taken to minimise these risks, and how much we really know about the secretive world of cyberattacks?

Will future wars be fought online? Just how much damage can be done by cyber terrorists hacking into to top secret military sites, secure government networks, or perhaps vital public utilities running our power and water supplies? And when does a hack become true cyber-warfare, requiring a military response? Join Owen Bennett Jones in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, as he talks to some of the world’s leading experts gathering for a conference on cyber conflict, discussing what measures can be taken to minimize these risks, and how much we really know about the secretive world of cyber-attacks.

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50 minutes

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Sat 4 Jun 2016 10:06GMT

Contributors

Jason Healey - senior research scholar at Columbia University in New York, specialising in cyber conflict

Kim Zetter - senior staff reporter at Wired magazine ; author of Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

Andrei Soldatov - Russian investigative journalist; author of The Red Web

Liis Vihul - legal analyst at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre for Excellence in Tallinn

Broadcasts

  • Fri 3 Jun 2016 08:06GMT
  • Fri 3 Jun 2016 23:06GMT
  • Sat 4 Jun 2016 03:06GMT
  • Sat 4 Jun 2016 10:06GMT

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