US media reported Washington launched cyber attacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone on June 20 AFP/File
CNBC: US-Iran cyber strike marks a military ‘game changer,’ says tech expert
* Military warfare could increasingly look like a loss of connectivity — rather than a loss of life, according to Splunk’s cybersecurity expert.
* Haiyan Song’s comments come after what she described as America’s “game changing” cyber attack on Iran’s military systems last month.
* At that time, the Trump administration called the attack a “proportionate” response to Iran’s shooting down of an unmanned U.S. military drone.
After the U.S. launched a cyber strike on Iran’s weapons systems last month, military warfare could increasingly look like a loss of connectivity — rather than a loss of life, according to a cybersecurity expert.
The attack on Iran’s security systems — used to control its rocket and missile launches — was a “game changing” event for both the cyber-security industry and “how we think about geopolitics,” Splunk’s Haiyan Song told CNBC Tuesday.
“A military action got diverted to really becoming a cyber action,” said Song.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- July 2, 2019
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