Relations between the United States and Russia have been particularly sensitive. In recent months a number of cases of attacks charges, information theft and even attempts to influence the election results.
US forces have been on alert and have now warn that will launch a cyber attack against Russia if this attempt to manipulate US elections.
This is not the first time in recent months that people have heard of possible attacks against one of the world's great superpowers. These have been repeated steadily, with both parties to try to steal information.
What can Russia attack?
With the focus now to be in US elections, taking place as early as next Tuesday, day 8, voltage appears to be increasing and is expected to further attacks an even larger scale. In the case of US forces, defenses are already being prepared, since there is strong evidence that Russia may want to influence elections, performing various Internet attacks. The targets appear to be the voter registration systems and their own support infrastructure for elections.
But in a statement of "prewar", Americans warned now that will retaliate with ciberatatques if any strong evidence of these attempts to manipulate or interfere with the results.
The targets of this American cyberattack
The targets of the American forces are well defined and, second information known, can seriously affect Russia. US forces have access to vulnerabilities that they will allow to control or eliminate the control command centers, the mains and to the own telecom operators.
There is also information that this message has already been passed in an official manner and that the United States did not expect so any attempt at obstruction by Russia.
The message we try to convey is clear and alert Russia, and other countries, that should not interfere with the ongoing democratic process for choosing the next president of the United States of America.
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