Chinese military is actively recruiting hackers for a special squad devoted to online warfare.

A top Japanese cyberterrorism and crime expert predicted that it is \"only a matter of time\" before all nations experience the first cyberattack on a worldwide scale. To fight such an assault, the nations of the world will have to band together - but Japan is far behind the US in its anti-cyberterror efforts, he also said.

The Bush administration needs to develop a comprehensive policy encouraging law enforcement to use the latest high-tech gadgetry and information-sharing tools if it wants to maintain any hope of preventing the next terrorist attack, a think-tank said today.