Cyber warfare: threats and ways to confront them

Abstract

The relatively recent development of the information revolution and the emergence of the Internet have created a new environment, especially in expanding the scope of military warfare operations to include cyberspace, or what is called (the fifth domain of war alongside land, sea, air, and space). Although there is no general disagreement that the information revolution and the emergence of the Internet have become ,It is essential for the world to rise in a positive direction, but this development has begun to affect the global system between countries, especially after the emergence of a new form of war, which is the newly developed cyber war, which has made cyberspace a new area of ​​conflict between the countries of the world, and even one of the most dangerous security challenges facing all societies of the world in the field of using information technology, and a source of danger to national security, and to security and peace,Internationally, through this research paper, I will address the nature of cybercrimes, and I will also address the repercussions of cyber wars, and the manifestations of targeting national security that occur due to international political interactions and changes, and also clarify real examples of the emergence of cybercrimes and the increase in their rates.