... medium that today provides almost instantaneous information of any kind at the touch of a key board. Like a number of inventions, the internet was developed to establish a strategic advantage over an adversary. After the Russians launched the satellite Sputnik I, then President Eisenhower began the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). This was raised as a scientific improvement for the nation's defense ... internet based services means that there cannot be any instance of interference from second or third party that could jeopardize the life of a patient in sur...

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... of growing national interest and concern. Cyber warfare can be used to describe various aspects of defending and attacking information and computer networks in cyberspace, as well as denying an adversary's ability to do the same. Some major problems encountered with cyber attacks, in particular, are the difficulty in determining the origin and nature of the attack and in assessing the ... worm replicated itself over 250,000 times in approximately nine hours on July 19, 2001. A worm usually exploits some sort of security hole in a piece of software or the operating system. For example, t...

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