Age of Information Warfare

Introduction

'Information Warfare', less talked topic but one of the menancing threats in upcoming years or decade which can be haunting to our privacy.People should be aware of these topics so that they can be safe in the Virtual Envoirnment.

What actually is the Information warfare?

It is simply a manipulation of any kind of confidential information trusted by the target without the targets awareness, so that target make decisions on favour of on who is conducting the Information Warfare.

It involves spreading of propaganda,manipulation of information (especially during important events such as General Elections 2024 in India).

Lethality of Information Warfare

It is modern warfare of 21st Century which does not involve arms and ammunations or milatry but a psychological destruction of enemy.

It can be held on or without Cyberspace.

Types/Forms of Information Warfare

1. Information Based Warfare- This is a kind of warfare which is used by armies of nations to safegaurd their borders,spying the enemies which involves use of drones, sensors.

2. Electronic Warfare- It is part in armies where they use electronic media such as radars,changing frequenices, forming special codes for transfer of messages.

3. Psychological Warfare-  It is type of warefare which involves psychological destruction of enemy by using mind tricks, manipulating the opponent, spreading fake propagandas in high pace.

4. Cyberwarfare- It is future of warfare in the world which is done by computers, dis-integrating the information in the systems. Many countries now have there cyber armies which involves group or army of hackers for protecting the confidential information and stealing the enemies information. It envolves cyber espionage and whole blog can be written this topic of cyber-modern warfare.

Let's see some examples of Information Warfare in modern era

• In European countries (France,Italy,Germany) it has been seen there is rise in social media misuse during presedential elections
• Russia used it's IRA- Internet Research Agency to target some groups of americans via social media.

The question arises that how can we protect ourselves in era of Information warfare.

Some precautions can be followed to protection of our privacy which are as follows-

Public Awarness about the lethality of information warfare and necessity of protection of our privacy as ormal public is not aware how to protect their information and become a victim of phishing, spoofing etc.

Data Security, casual users can follow encryption and multi factor authentication it is a huge step to be safe online.

Future of Information Warfare

Predicting the future of Information Warfare is next to impossible, but we can discuss about the certain possiblities.

1. Deep Fakes- this tech is in trend nowadays and can be very harmful for destroying anyone's image. AI has made it possible to make photos, videos that a casual user would be unable to distinguish between fake and real media.

2. Quantum Computing- This is seemed to be future of tech which can revolutionalise the industry. It can be possible to complete millions of tasks in seconds.It will have the power to break any encryption within seconds which seems dangerous in wrong hands.

This blog contains something new about the digital world, warfares and security & importance od data security.

Hope , you liked the content and it added some value to yourselves.

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