Different governments and allied groups are launching cyberattacks on their enemies, McAfee's annual report on cybersecurity.

About 120 countries are involved in such activities.McAfee launched this report with the help of NATO, the FBI, the United Kingdom's Serious Organized Crime Agency, and various groups and universities. Mcafee reports that targets include air traffic control, financial markets, government computer networks, utility providers and electricity departments.

Cyber attacks are designed to specifically under the radar of government cyber defenses. These are now well-funded and well-organized operations for political, military, economic and technical espionage.

Cyberattacks are becoming an important tool to spread disinformation and disrupt communications. It will be common for governments to license cybercriminals to attack enemies. States are sponsoring malware attacks.It seems easier to attack government X's database than it is to nuke their troops.

In the past 12 months there have been reports of cyber attacks against government targets in the US, Germany, India, New Zealand and Australia.These Governments are propagating against china. China denied all these bogus claims.

Cyber crime is now a global issue. It is a threat to industry and national security. More sophisticated groups are attacking against organisations around the world.

Social networking are now target for cyber cirminals such as MySpace and Facebook.But many governments are unaware of web threats and are open to cyber attack, NATO insiders said.

Peter Sommer, a computer crime expert said: "There are signs that intelligence agencies around the world are constantly probing other governments' networks, looking for strengths and weaknesses and developing new ways to gather intelligence".

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