NATO's cyber defence policy, furthermore critical infrastructure protection in the light of social media

Abstract

To our century it can be observed a kind of paradigm change in the field of information warfare. Changes in the information technology are generated new challanges in the security of nations. This study demonstrates the danger of a possible cyber attack at a country's CI. The attackers use only computer networks, without applying the conventional warfare, they could put the attacked country back into the "Digital Stone Age". The authors make an attempt at to show the new tools, whereby can be carried out the above mentioned attack.