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Cyber Warfare A Major Threat 10 Years After 9/11
By: adminFriday, September 9th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
In light of recent hacking incidents, there has been a lot of talk about cyber attacks being the big threat 10 years after 9/11. Security experts have been talking about this a lot.
WebProNews has an interesting video discussing this with Dr. Farshid Delgosha, a professor at the New York Institute of Technology, who says, ““Now, because of the widespread usage of the Internet and the Web and the great deal of information and sensitive information that exists on the Web, definitely that [cyber] is the battleground in the future.”
WebProNews also ran another story in June, talking with Charles Dodd, a U.S. government consultant on cyber defense, who said, “Cyber will be the next generation warfare.”
This week, an online security bill was introduced in Senate.
September 11th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Having been in the cybersecurity industry for several years now, a know how real this threat is. It is the quiet war, one that has been going on for quite a while now and one that is only going to get worse. The scariest part of it all is the very real possibility of cyber warfare effect our nation’s critical infrastructure (just google stuxnet virus)
To those who blame poor antivirus software- it it way beyond that. Cyber security is more than just getting an antivirus software and praying you won’t get hacked or succumb to a nasty virus that renders your computer not much better than a paperweight. It means having the proper protection, having the education to use that protection effectively, and having the knowedge of knowing how you are most likely going to get attacked and what an attack will look like and having the right equipment to recover from an attack (backups). It is a discipline that must be developed. Think of how you protect intuders from getting into your house. You have maybe a dozen or so possible entry points into your house and all that are pretty obvious so you put locks on doors and maybe even sensors on your windows. Your computer has upwards of 100,000 possible entry points, and millions of ways get through those entry points, most of the time without your knowledge. There is and will never be such of a thing as to make your computer 100% invulnerable to malware attacks short of turning it off and keeping it off. There is a common saying in the cybersecurity industry: The only way to guarantee a completely secure computer is if you turn it off, drop it in a cubic meter of concrete and sink it to the bottom of the ocean. Even then there is a possibility of a threat to the computer.
September 9th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Do you know how many times I have had to buy a new computer? My computer is now nine months old and was recently hacked into, even tho I have a good(?) antivirus on the computer,and paid a lot of money for it, they still got in. So, it seems that even if you have an antivirus, they still get in. So, that means that all the antiviruses out there that are supposed to be protecting your computer,really arent. They should have done this security thing 6 computers ago and several thouands of dollars, sgo! There should be a LAW AGAINST CYBER-CRIMINALS! LETS STOP THIS NOW! I am sure they can track these bas$$rds down, just like they can track our computers down.