What is a cyber warfare attack exactly, and what is it that separates it from a garden variety cyber attack? When does a cyber attack cross the line into actual warfare? Is it a cyber attack launched by a nation-state or other political or quasi-political entity against the resources of another nation-state? What separates cyber war from actual armed conflict? The answers are surprising.
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Windows XP was released on 2001 replaced by Windows Vista (ugh) in 2006, and Windows 7 in 2009. Official support from Microsoft, including security updates, ended in 2014. It is now 16 years old. Yet 7% of PCs worldwide are still running Windows XP. Considering there are about 3 billion PC in use, that’s a whopping 210 million computers. It is easy to assume that most of these computers are ...
Fighting cyber-crime is a lot like whack-a-mole. By the time cyber-defenders come up with countermeasures that work against one exploit, the cyber-criminals have moved on to another different and more profitable exploit. Old malware is updated with new versions, and the new versions often slide right by the same defenses that stopped the old version.
Cyber-crime has moved from spamming, fake anti-virus, credit card fraud, and “Canadian” pharmaceuticals, to password cracking, ...
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