Topic: Militarization of the Internet
Country: Lebanon
Delegate Name: Alfredo Prado
School: Instituto Educativo Olinca
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Lebanon position papers GLIMUN 2013 committees
Cyber warfare is any virtual attack to someone's computer or information systems, and secret information of any other country, waged via the internet in order to steal or alter classified data to undermine services, networks and websites. This is done mostly for political reasons. Cyber warfare has become a daily concept, as it has been used to describe actions such as defacing websites, attacking critical infrastructure and for spying using the computer as a weapon, the networks as a warfare tools.
In 2012, Lebanon suffered an attack from 8 viruses who were aimed at the banking sector of Lebanon. The countries most likely to be involved, were the U.S. and Russia. However, China and Israel were also suspects. The country that created these viruses is likely to have crafted other cyber-espionage attacks before. Lebanon has now new equipment, applications, and technology to monitor internet services. The biggest problem is that Lebanon's cyberspace is open, so anybody can talk about the government in the cyberspace. Above all, the cyber security is a national and social security issue. This is why, a country should have the right of self-defense, against the cyber-attacker.
Before improving technology to stop cyber warfare, countries should invent a shield to protect themselves from being hacked and, afterwards, continue to improve the gadgets. With this shield, countries should have a better security against cyber-attacks. The government has an important role in the protection of citizens against a cyber-attack, and a difference should be established between the state's actions and the ones of the individual private citizens.
