"The current legal system which exists around war isn't necessary up to date with this type of problem. The borders of cyberspace are much more malleable and unclear, so it's not entirely clear when a nation-state has a moral or ethical right to react in a forceful way." If one of...
State-sponsored hackers have the official backing of a nation-state. They work with a government to spy on adversaries, disrupt critical infrastructure or spread misinformation, often in the name of national security. Whether these hackers are ethical or malicious is in the eye of the beholder. ...
Society is at risk from hackers attempting to interfere in elections, argues NATO's Jamie Shea. Read now "While nation-states continue to set a high bar for sophisticated cyberattacks, some financial threat actors have caught up to the point where we no longer see the line separating ...
Phone hackers have the advantage of many computer hacking techniques, which are easy to adapt to Androids.Phishing, the crime of targeting individuals or members of entire organizations to lure them into revealing sensitive information through social engineering, is a tried and true method for crimina...
Government-sponsored programs are increasingly sophisticated and pose advanced threats when compared to other threat actors. Their developing capabilities could cause widespread, long-term damages to the national security of many countries, including the United States. Hostile nation-states pose the highest...
Because of the growing threat of nation-state attacks, the implementation of organizational-widecybersecurityandnetwork securitycontrols are now more important than ever before. Inside vs Outside Cyber Threats Cyber attacks can come from inside or outside of your organization: ...
Hacker motives:Some of the leading motives for online hacking are financial gain, activism, corporate espionage (spying on competitors), state-sponsored attacks against opposing nation-states, or even cyber terrorism. How do I protect against hacking?
IoT devices like industrial sensors are vulnerable to multiple types of cyber threats. These include hackers taking over the device to make it part of a DDoS attack and gain unauthorized access to data being collected by the device. Given their numbers, geographic distribution, and frequently out...
Today, individual hackers still try to commitidentity theft, installviruses, stealpasswords, or cause other problems. In addition, there are now groups of politically motivated hackers, or “hacktivists,” as well as cybercriminal gangs that, in some cases, are sponsored by or linked to nation-...
Although not every company is at high risk of becoming a target of nation-state hackers, individuals in rival companies may also commit cyber espionage. To protect its data and prevent cyber espionage of any kind, an organization can do the following. ...