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Spies and hackers exploit world cyber rule void
Feb 25th
William Maclean, Security Correspondent
Reuters
Feb 22, 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61L37B20100222
LONDON (Reuters) – The best weapon against the online thieves, spies and vandals who threaten global business and security would be international regulation of cyberspace.
Luckily for them, such cooperation does not yet exist.
Better still, from a hacker’s perspective, such a goal is not a top priority for the international community, despite an outcry over hacking and censorship and disputes over cyberspace pitting China and Iran against U.S. firm Google.
Nations are thinking too parochially about their online security to collaborate on crafting global cyber regulation, an EastWest Institute security conference heard last week.
Policy statements from governments around the world are dominated by the need to heighten national cyber defenses. As a result, too many cyber criminals are getting a free ride.
“Nations are in denial,” a cyber law expert told Reuters, saying national legislation was of limited use in protecting users of a borderless communications tool.
“It may take a big shock of an event to wake people out of their complacency, something equal to a 9/11 in cyberspace,” he said referring to the 2001 coordinated attacks on U.S. cities.
With a quarter of humanity connected to the Internet, cyber crime poses a growing danger to the global economy.
More >China Hacks Inspire Copycats
Jan 31st
COPYCAT : China Hacks Inspire Copycats
Jaikumar Vijayan,
Computerworld
Jan 24, 2010
http://www.pcworld.com/article/187534/china_hacks_inspire_copycats.html?
Malicious hackers have begun using the recent cyberattacks against Google and more than 30 other companies as lures for launching even more targeted attacks, security firm F-Secure said in a blog post today.
The company reported spoofed e-mails purporting to contain details on the alleged Chinese attacks that contain a PDF attachment. When opened, it installs and runs the Acrobat.exe backdoor on the user’s machine.
A screen shot posted on F-Secure’s Web site showed an e-mail designed to look like it came from George Washington University. The e-mail, with the subject header ‘Chinese cyberattack,’ offered the target a review of an article on the recent attacks that the purported author had just written for the Far Eastern Economic Review.
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