Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
ast Wednesday, the world’s largest stock exchange went down for half a day, the world’s fifth-largest airline grounded its planes for a few hours, and The Wall Street Journal’s home page went missing, all within a few hours of each other. No wonder speculation was rife that a large-scale cyber attack was under way. But by the end of the day the Department of Homeland Security had declared unequivocally that this triple threat was merely a coincidence — random outages that happened to fall on the same day. I believe it. Part of the reason I accept this explanation is because the damage was so minimal. A coordinated, widespread cyber attack that went far beyond last week’s mini-debacle could be executed at will by any hackers seeking to make a great big point. It would not take uber-skilled hackers to accomplish. A few kids could do it using readily available hacking tools to target the abundant vulnerabilities nearly every company decides to live with as a part of the cost of doing business. Our state of insecurity When you read a news headline about a company that was hacked on a particular day, don’t think that company was the only […]
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