It says a lot about the state of our world that, when computers started crashing across Australia on Friday afternoon, the first thought of many was: is this the beginning of a cyber war?
With TV stations unable to broadcast, flights grounded, banks offline, and tens of thousands of computers displaying an eerie “Blue Screen of Death”, it certainly felt like it.
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Katherine Mansted is a senior fellow in the practice of national security at the ANU National Security College. She is also the executive director of cyberintelligence at CyberCX.
