In the article, " Cyber War"by Patricia Smith they are discussing how soliders of Iran Hacked into Saudi Arabia's computers to shut down Saudi Arabia's oil company, and when they hacked into the systems they put a picture the American flag burning in flames.
The burning flag represented that Iranians are not just there to try and attack Saudi they are soon going to try and come after the United States of America.
"The hackers picked the one day of the year they knew, they could inflict the most damage on the World's most valuable company." The day they chose to inflict the most damage on the World's most vauable company was August 15th. August 15th was the day of a Muslim holiday so the hackers knew that the employees of Saudi Aramco would not be there, to protect their important information.
The hackers where able to delete about 75 percent of data and files.
Why did they attack?
I think that attacked because they knew that the oil could be used inside of nuclear bombs. And they them bombs would be used against them, so they decided to make the first serious move so that they would not get attacked with out being prepared. But im not sure, others might think other wise.
The U.S should have back-up data from that day forward, because someone else might try the same thing, and if they do at least they would be prepared and it would not really affect them as much.
They attacked the oil company because the US relies on it and because the US had previously attacked Iran's nuclear weapons program. Oil is not used in nuclear bombs. Do you think the US should use cyberweapons? Can you connect to article in any way? 80
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