China is labelled an 'IT menace' as wars head to cyberspace
Wars fought using computer code and hackers are affecting countries all over the world.
Earlier this month it was revealed that US President Barack Obama had powers to launch pre-emptive attacks if there was credible evidence that another country was planning to use cyber weaponry against the US.
If the President approves attacks the US will be able to attack other countries by disrupting their computer systems with destructive code.
Cyber warfare is nothing new. In 2011 the UK Government's top-secret GCHQ intelligence agency warned that the UK faced a "real and credible" threat of cyber-attacks from other states. GCHQ , which acts as a high-tech listening post searching for cyber-attacks, said that the country was under attack "every day, every hour, every minute and every second."
