Tagged: hackers

5:30am

Tue June 28, 2011
The Digital Future

Cyber attacks are escalating

Mark Anderson (L) with Richard Marshall, the Department of Homeland Security's Director of Global Cyber Security Management, at the Future in Review conference in Laguna Beach, CA. 5/24/11
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Remember when we used to call the Internet the "information superhighway"? Today, that highway is starting to resemble the route Mad Max traveled in The Road Warrior. You can't go out on it without inviting an attack. Hardly a week goes by without seeing news reports about another corporation being sabotaged by hackers ... Sony, Intel, Google, and Lockheed are some of the more high profile victims.

For consumers, the biggest cyber threat is identity theft and stolen credit card numbers. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. This month on The Digital Future, Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson looks at the huge increase in Advanced Persistent Threats: efforts by nation-states to steal information and technology.

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