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The Bipartisan Policy Centre (BPC) hosted Cyber Shockwave this week, a simulated cyberattack on the US, and it showed that that the country still has a long way to go to fight off such warfare. The simulation took the form of an attack in a single day, via a malware program on 20 million smartphones. This disrupted mobile service and spread to take down the Eastern seaboard power grid and an energy trading platform.

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It’s the Cold War all over again, only this one’s taking place in cyberspace. According to a report by security firm McAfee, there are a growing number of governments all around the globe preparing for potential cyber conflicts with other countries, DailyTech reports. “There are at least five countries known to be arming themselves for this kind of conflict,” McAfee Europe analyst Greg Day told the BBC.

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