State Sponsored Cyber Attacks and Crime?
September 13th, 2007 Drazen Drazic Posted in Bad Stuff, Big Galoot Diatribe, Vulnerability Management, Web Application Security, cyber crime, news |
This seems to come up quite often lately in the press. I think it was Risky Business (ITRadio.com) in a recent interview also covered it. Big Galoot raised it in a previous post.
The kiwis first and now the Aussies also are getting into it: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22403224-2,00.html
I wonder how someone can definitively state that it was this government or that. Anyone heard of spoofing IP addresses? Was it raised with China at APEC? 
Big Galoot sent me the following:
“Organisations that still have the mindset that the enemy they are battling against is mainly organised crime gangs. They’d better face up to the grim reality! Cyber crime is also State-sponsored, which given the resources available to an entire country for this type of activity, raises the stakes massively!”
September 14th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Everyone’s in the act:
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/588
September 25th, 2007 at 7:33 am
An SA response to journos:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/C7823E201D556696CC25735C007D9DD9