Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
That’s the view of James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Mr Lewis says that no company can prevent an attack launched by hackers who have the resources of a nation-state behind them from succeeding. He believes the hackers who breached Sony’s network in late 2014 and leaked huge amounts of confidential information were backed by the North Korean government. “It is simply not possible to beat these hackers,” Mr Lewis says. “Criminals want to make money, and if they find it difficult to get into your network they will move on to another target. “But the Sony hack was not done for money – it was politically motivated and vindictive.” Other experts have expressed doubts, though, over whether Pyongyang was really behind the hack, and North Korea has consistently denied involvement in the security breach. Government-backed attackers have far greater resources at their disposal than criminal hacker gangs, and if necessary they may be able to make use of “other measures” such as human agents or communications intercepts to successfully bypass any security measures, he explains. “Government-backed hackers simply won’t give up – they will keep trying until they succeed,” […]
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