Cyber Pearl Harbor

12/7/13 was the day when the Imperial Japanese Navy executed a covert attack on Pearl Harbor. The attack killed 2,402 people and wounded 1,282. A total of 6 ships were sunk while 21 were damaged and are we facing another epidemic like this?

On August 15, 2012 Saudi Arabia's oil company, Saudi Aramco( which is worth $7 trillion), was attacked. A virus had spread through the system, deleting 75% of all the documents, spreadsheets, e-mails, files and leaving a burning american flag in it's place. When the virus stopped it spread to and disabled over 30,000 computers. Also, it sent a message to other nations including the U.S about how defenseless the world is to cyber attack.

U.S intelligence concluded that the attack came from Iran. This attack not only affected Saudi Arabia but the U.S to, since we get a majority of our oil from there. Richard Clarke, a former White House counter terrorism official said, " It proved you don't have to be sophisticated to do a lot of damage." Information has been leaked that the U.S has launched cyber attacks on Iran's nuclear plants in the past. They code-named these assault's Olympic Games. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said " An aggressor nation or extremist group could use these kinds of cyber tools to derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with chemicals.

 After reading this article this made me question the U.S power. We're not an independent country, we need other countries help. That's are greatest strength and weakness. It's not a bad thing but we need to anticipate situations like this. If we sent cyber attacks to Iran then we should have expected one back.

Also this makes me question the safety of the U.S. They say cyber attacks could derail trains and shut down technology. This would drive the U.S into panic and cause thousands of deaths. Hopefully, precautions are being made just in case this happens.


In conclusion I hope this never happens to the U.S or any country in fact and if Iran launches an attack on us then we should immediately strike back and destroy their country.