Governments take war to cyberspace - report

A new "cold-war" conducted through cyberspace is gaining momentum as major world powers take their imperialist tussles online.

As a result, the Internet is increasingly becoming a weapon of military, political and economic espionage. These are some of the findings of this year's McAfee Criminology Report released on Wednesday.

Smaller countries will increasingly be under threat as cyber-crime turns from a pastime practised by a few curious computer geeks to organised and very sophisticated government-funded operations.

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