Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
The United States is vulnerable to cyber-attacks of every ilk, from theft to all-out war. This was the message delivered Tuesday evening at Claremont McKenna’s Athenaeum by Richard Clarke, CEO of the Good Harbor Security Risk Management company. Mr. Clarke, whose talk was called “Cybersecurity in 2015: from Theft to Destruction,” brings a lot of experience to bear on the subject. Among his accomplishments are a decade as a White House official, during which time he counseled three consecutive presidents on national security in the information age. The ways corporate and governmental security can be breached via computer are myriad, and their execution technical. Mr. Clarke sought to simplify things by breaking down the four main types of digital attacks. They can be remembered via the acronym CHEW, which stands for cyber-crime, cyber-hacktivism, cyber-espionage and cyber-war. Cyber-crime represents basic theft, in which an individual or individuals reach into peoples’ accounts and remove money, and is a pretty well-known problem. Cyber-hacktivism is when a group, unhappy with the actions of another group, hacks into their system in order to embarrass or sabotage them. In a way, the Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack, which took place last November, is a case of cyber-hacktivism, […]
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