World Headed for "Cyber Cold War"?

Government and military computer systems in the West are coming under sustained attack from China and other countries, a major new study warns.

Internet security company McAfee’s closely-read annual Virtual Criminology Report, which draws on interviews with senior staff at organizations including Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency, NATO and the FBI, says that the world has entered a "cyber cold war" in which Web-based espionage poses the biggest threat to national security.