Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Why International Cybercrime Is Going To Keep Getting Worse

The new digital world order revolves around vigilantes, iron curtains, and lots and lots of frenemies.


If war is politics by other means, then so increasingly, is cyberwarfare. Consider the laundry list of attacks crisscrossing the world right now: Anonymous, the Western anti-establishment hacker collective which started in the U.S., is waging a "full-scale cyber war" against ISIS--at the same time the U.S. is bombing the group. Russian hackers have exploited a Microsoft Windows bug to spy on Ukrainians, and they are thought to be behind an enormous attack on JPMorgan and other businesses--as Russian president Vladimir Putin continues to ratchet up his rhetoric against the U.S..


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from Co.Exist http://www.fastcompany.com/3037072/elasticity/why-international-cybercrime-is-going-to-keep-getting-worse?partner=rss

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