According to the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), the organizers of Cyber Shockwave released a report today that the U.S. is unprepared for cyber threats. It was interesting to note that according to BPC, “…….that the U.S. defenders had difficulty identifying the source of the simulated attack”. A day later a Wall Street Journal reported that foreign hackers have broken into more than 2, 500 companies based in the U.S., with the use of sophisticated cyber entities known as botnets, which are basically armies of malicious code coming from infected computers. As this problem grows, much more research is needed so that we effectively identify these unknown attackers using these automated armies.
More reading:
United States Fails Simulated Cyberattack
Broad New Hacking Attack Detected
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