OT: Cyberattack, who should be scared of who?

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By Robert Windrem, Senior Investigative Producer, NBC News

The United States is locked in a tight race with China and Russia to build destructive cyberweapons capable of seriously damaging other nations’ critical infrastructure, according to a leading expert on hostilities waged via the Internet. Scott Borg, CEO of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a nonprofit institute that advises the U.S. government and businesses on cybersecurity, said all three nations have built arsenals of sophisticated computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other tools that place them atop the rest of the world in the ability to inflict serious damage on one another, or lesser powers.

For example the US rarely discuss offensive cyberwar capability, but it is believed that it could shut down the electrical grid of a smaller nation such as Iran example if it chose to do so.

Ranked just below the Big Three in offensive cyberwarfare are Britain, Germany and Israel.