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Cyber security threats are evolving
THREATS TO CYBER SECURITY are evolving and businesses need to learn from attacks by Lulzsec and Anonymous, speakers said at a cyber security panel discussion today.
At a Westminister Eforum, Defence Select Committee member Julian Brazier told the audience that "very few people understand the sheer scale and spectrum of the threat we face".
Andy Dancer, CTO at Trend Micro explained that the nature of cyber threats is changing, and cyber attacks are targeting individuals, rather than an entire company at once.
He said, "Previously threats went out to the targets [attackers] could see. Now its point of entry and then focus on machines on the inside, impersonate the user if I can't get access to their machine. It's not an outbreak that hits all machines one at a time, it's an individual that slowly takes over."
He added, "From the point of entry to compromise, it happens very quickly. It's very difficult to keep up with patching because you can't apply patches quickly enough. It often takes weeks for patches to be applied but just hours to compromise a system."
Mike Hawkes, chair of the Mobile Data Association said that companies need to learn from attacks by hacktivists such as Anonymous and Luzsec. He said, "We are going to be invaded and we need to be prepared to be invaded across all devices."
He added that the next big attack "comes through data", pointing to the fact that entire networks have been down because of issues.
Hawkes said, "If your only solution is to take down your network them you aren't doing things in the right way." µ
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lol, it's hilarious that he kept the name his parents were cruel enough to give him. I hear he married Amanda Kissinhug.
Antisec and lulzsec are at best a sideshow. Undirected and wasteful of their skillz. The nation states (advanced persistent chinese) and cyber criminals are a much bigger problem. Not solved yet.
While Anonymous and company are self-righteous morons who believe they can make their own rules and do whatever they please they are motivation for law enforcement and security experts to improve their craft to catch these criminals and better secure systems, so it's all good.
Denial has never worked for anyone but Antisec is slow to greasp reality. Their stay at the Iron Bar Hotel should be quite an educational experience. They can run but as history has shown they can not hide. Society is not going to stand by and allow a small percentage of society to commit crimes against the rest of society. They make prisons for Antisec members who can't live within the laws of society. Have a nice life.
Self righteous people try to describe people who fight corrupt people in power as criminals. That is nothing new. When Australian freedom fighters did not line-up in coloured uniforms like the British they were called barbarians and terrorists.
Every new improvement to society including democracy and women's rights racial rights etc. have been lambasted by the existing morons that were in charge!
Security experts and authorities should use the Antisec attacks to improve security and develop faster means to hunt down these criminals and prosecute them because it's gonna get worse long before it gets better.