29 August 2011

Cybersecurity: How can I steal from Thee? Let me count the ways. | #hackers #infosec #cybercrime

I have been thinking a lot about the security challenges related to the Internet lately. Partly this is because I was at the same workshop on cybersecurity that David Ignatius summarized in a recent column. And partly it is because I keep reading stories like this one in Vanity Fair or thisWashington Times piece or this one in the LA Times, which highlight how new technologies might be putting our national wealth and perhaps security at risk.

A common thread in recent reports is the credible allegation that China is engaged in a systematic effort to use cyberwar techniques to steal massive quantities of information -- military and foreign policy secrets, valuable intellectual property, and other information of special value to the regime -- and that collectively this theft constitutes a national security threat of the first order.

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