If the WikiLeaks dump and subsequent attacks have made very clear, it is this: 2010 belongs to hackers.
Piracy, the practice to get your hands on the tools, systems and materials - especially when he has not permitted – is nothing new: MIT students in the 1950s to "pirates" who manipulated telecommunications systems in the world.
But their impact suddenly has skyrocketed. In the last decade, the digital medium in which operate hackers became single most important driver of cultural, commercial and geopolitical world change. And online members, national security agencies credit card companies were much more than their counterparts in the real world.
Tools easily obtained Cybernetics to be glorified in the novels of Stieg Larsson jailbroken iPhone hacker culture is also bike from the underground to the general public.
"Served to decompose into networks and pull data classified, but back in the day that this information was kept within the community, hackers", explains Michael Calce, which, under the pseudonym of Mafiaboy, becomes one of the most famous computer criminals in the world a decade ago when he was able to decrease temporarily websites of several companies, including Yahoo and CNN.
"Now that the information is on a pedestal world." WikiLeaks is that an example, there is much more of this to come.
STATE ISSUES
The largest breach of a U.S. military computer network ever, according to the Deputy Secretary of Defense William III's Lynn j., took place in 2008.
"He started when infected flash drive was inserted in the u.s. based in the Middle East, military laptop" m. Lynn wrote in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. "Malicious computer code flash, by a foreign intelligence agency drive downloaded itself over a network managed by the u.s. central command."
For the first time, a senior government official has confirmed what was most security experts already strongly suspected - United States in constant attacks foreign enemies, and some of these attacks had succeeded intrusive information some of computer networks more sensitive in Washington.
In recent years, Western nations much of their efforts on security policies turned to computer networks conscious of the fact that a growing number of malicious, actors minor criminals at the featured State "patriotic hackers," constantly bend on networks of Government for weaknesses. United States Barack Obama President has created a new Office of the White House to deal with cyber security. Earlier this year, a group of 15 countries, including the United States, China and the Russia agreed in principle to work on the limitation of cyber-attacks.
In 2007, critical infrastructure Estonia, including banks and broadcasters, computers came under attack. In this case, the pro-Russian included guilty "patriotic hackers", but also extensive networks computers maliciously co-opted everywhere in the world, including the users had no idea that they helped an act of war.
Duplication of bodies of State, multinational corporations and the pirates without borders has become a theme of 2010. Canadian BlackBerry - maker Research In Motion has seen many of its markets overseas at risk this year after Governments India, Saudi Arabia and the United Emirates Arab United threatened to ban blackberries unless they were given access to the information passing through the devices. Google has been sponsored by the State piracy in China, something the hangar cables helped WikiLeaks light on. Indeed, the increasing popularity of cloud computing - hosting data and software on the servers of third parties that are accessible from any where in the world - have only increased the potential reward for anyone who is able to penetrate the servers of companies such as Google or Amazon.
-Michelle Thompson / feedback from the globe and Mail4
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