By- Rajat Pandit, TNN After the first four "real" battlefields of land, air, sea and now increasingly space, India needs to get serious on the virtual front as well. The country should begin planning a full-fledged military cyber command, instead of the current piecemeal and disjointed steps to bolster cyber security, grappling as it already is with incessant online espionage and other attacks from China, Pakistan and others. This was the clear takeaway from the deliberations on cyber security and cyber warfare at the high-profile Munich security conference on Sunday, even though hardly figured in the discussions. experts said, the emergence of "cyber weapons" like the Stuxnet Software "Worm" that was used to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, had changed the entire security ball game, almost on a par with the use of nuclear bombs in 1945. "Someone used a cyber weapon in peacetime to physically destroy what the nation(Iran) could describe as ...
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