Posted on Thursday, 23rd June 2011 by Nathan Thorpe
It has often been said that our nation has been at war with a mostly invisible enemy in rugged and rough terrain. Yes, we are talking about the War on Terror and our military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq. Well, a new invisible enemy is emerging that they operate in total anonymity. We are talking about the hackers responsible for some of the most high-profile breaches – Sony, Google, EMC…just to name a few.
As this Bloomberg article points out, disturbingly, no hacker has been publicly identified, charged or arrested for these major breaches. The article also points to the reality that we may never capture and bring justice to these hackers.
Here are some key excerpts from this article:
“I don’t have a high level of confidence that they will be brought to justice,” said Peter George, chief executive of Fidelis Security Systems Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based data protection consulting firm whose clients include International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), the U.S. Army and the Department of Commerce. “The government is doing what they can, but they need to do a lot more.”
In the U.S., the FBI, the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies are confronting what amounts to a massive crime wave that’s highly organized and hard to combat with traditional methods. The hacker organizations are well funded and global, eluding arrest except in the rarest of cases.
Attacks are coming from organized crime groups based in Eastern Europe and Russia, from industrial spies in China and from groups such as LulzSec, whose members appear to reside mostly in the U.S. and Europe and seem more interested in publicity than in making a profit from their crimes.
Well, even in the aftermath of the death of Bin Laden, we are still fighting a shadow enemy – for nearly a decade. Perhaps the cyber war will also be long, protracted and very tough to ever find a true resolution for?
Welcome all thoughts, comments and feedback.
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