The relationship between Iran and America had deteriorated to such an extent that other countries are speculating a cyberwar to erupt at any moment. Technically speaking, cyberwar is a digital attack were computer viruses, DDoS campaigns and hacks are expected the digital infrastructure of enemy nations creating damage such as political instability, death of populace or more severe destruction. Therefore, we can come to the conclusion that the time has come where nations have put aside the usage of conventional weapons like guns and missiles and have started to take the help of cyber attacks to disrupt other nation's critical infrastructure. Factually speaking, in such war scenarios, it is not the computer systems that are being targeted on a final note. But it's the control systems that are being targeted because they are playing a bigger role in managing real-world infrastructures like airports and power grids. And what's interesting in this saga is that the attack can be launched in disguise from anywhere and it might prove difficult for the investigators to tracking down the perpetrators due to their anonymous presence.

What is the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our lives? How can we combat increasing cyberattacks? Is the threat to digital privacy real? Co-written by Carlon Ann Browne, director of communications at Microsoft, the book released on September 10. The book claims not to be a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir", but a "candid and eye-opening investigation into the most divisive issues facing tech companies and governments today -- cyberwar, privacy, mass surveillance, undermining of democracy, AI, diversity".

New Delhi: What is the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our lives? How can we combat increasing cyberattacks? Is the threat to digital privacy real? Co-written by Carlon Ann Browne, director of communications at Microsoft, the book will hit stands on September 10, publishing house Hachette has recently announced. The book claims not to be a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir", but a "candid and eye-opening investigation into the most divisive issues facing tech companies and governments today - cyberwar, privacy, mass surveillance, undermining of democracy, AI, diversity".

New Delhi: What is the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our lives? How can we combat increasing cyberattacks? Is the threat to digital privacy real? Co-written by Carlon Ann Browne, director of communications at Microsoft, the book will hit stands on September 10, publishing house Hachette has recently announced. The book claims not to be a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir", but a "candid and eye-opening investigation into the most divisive issues facing tech companies and governments today -- cyberwar, privacy, mass surveillance, undermining of democracy, AI, diversity".

Imagine this: You click on a news clip and see the President of the United States at a press conference with a foreign leader. The news conference is real. You share with a friend. They share with a friend. Soon, everyone has seen it.

Not so long ago, stories about cyberwar started with scary hypotheticals: What if state-sponsored hackers were to launch widespread attacks that blacked out entire cities? Crippled banks and froze ATMs across a country? Today, these scenarios are no longer hypotheticals: Every one of those events has now actually occurred. Incident by catastrophic incident, cyberwar has left the pages of overblown science fiction and the tabletops of Pentagon war games to become a reality. More than ever before, it's become clear that the threat of hacking goes beyond nuisance vandalism, criminal profiteering, and even espionage to include the sort of physical-world disruption that was once possible to accomplish only with military attacks and terroristic sabotage. So far, there's no clearly documented case of a cyberwar attack directly causing loss of life. But a single cyberwar attack has already caused as much as $10 billion dollars in economic damage.

LogRhythm says AI lets organisations minimise false positives and be more productive. Software inefficiencies play a major role in slowing an organisation's ability to detect and respond to cyberthreats, says security intelligence company LogRhythm. One in three IT decision-makers say their teams spend at least three hours a day on tasks that could be handled by software. Most of them think that the average cybersecurity professional wastes close to 10 hours a week because of inadequate software. The study, commissioned by LogRhythm and conducted by Widmeyer, surveyed 751 IT decision-makers in the US, Britain and Asia-Pacific and found that an overwhelming majority (88%) of respondents view insider threats as a dangerous and growing concern in defending their organisations.

Technology is transforming our lives so profoundly, so quickly, that it can be scary. We asked experts to weigh in on how much we should be stressed about self-driving cars, rogue nuke launches, evil AI, and more. You can loosen your white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel. In cities where self -driving cars are being tested on public roads--San Francisco; Boston; Tempe, Arizona--there's a trained engineer on board to make sure the nascent tech doesn't start taking out squirrels (or pedestrians). "It's that person's job to pay attention to what the vehicle is doing," says Nidhi Kalra, codirector of the RAND Center for Decision Making Under Uncertainty.

In 1899, the world's most powerful nations signed a treaty at The Hague that banned military use of aircraft, fearing the emerging technology's destructive power. Five years later the moratorium was allowed to expire, and before long aircraft were helping to enable the slaughter of World War I. "Some technologies are so powerful as to be irresistible," says Greg Allen, a fellow at the Center for New American Security, a non-partisan Washington DC think tank. "Militaries around the world have essentially come to the same conclusion with respect to artificial intelligence." Allen is coauthor of a 132-page new report on the effect of artificial intelligence on national security. One of its conclusions is that the impact of technologies such as autonomous robots on war and international relations could rival that of nuclear weapons.

My latest book is a thriller and it is science fiction, but it is also known as what is called a genre smasher, and so I felt it was time to address the cyberpunk body hacking grinders in Cyberwar. I hate labels, but sometimes they are necessity when it comes to easily finding information. Without the fantastically fun sub-genre of speculative fiction known as'Cyberpunk', it would be pretty damn hard to find new books that I like that in some way loosely resemble the technologically gritty woes of imagined futures or worlds or realities brought to us in stories like Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the neighbors will have your balls if your robotic sheep proves to be impersonating a real one) or William Gibson's unparalleled Neuromancer. It occurs to me, right now, as the horrid commercials blare their noise at my back, while I eagerly await my Alma Mater's first entry into the March Madness Tournament, that my book has been marketed wrong. That is, to say, Cyberwar meets the expectations for a sci-fi thriller, but that is far short of the whole picture.