Targeted Attacks Focus On Economic Cyberterrorism

Orome1 writes "When it comes to dangerous Web threats, the only constant is change and gone are the days of predictable attack vectors. Instead, modern blended threats such as Aurora, Stuxnet, and Zeus infiltrate organizations through a variety of coordinated tactics, usually a combination of two or more. Phishing, compromised websites, and social networking are carefully coordinated to steal confidential data, because in the world of cybercrime, content equals cash. And, as a new Websense report illustrates, the latest tactics have now moved to a political and nationalistic stage. Cybercriminals and their blended attacks are having a field day taking advantage of security gaps left open by legacy technologies like firewalls, anti-virus, and simple URL blockers."

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Re:Nations are stupid

[Anonymous Coward]

And nations help with that? Nations help keep people repressed. They have a lot to do with why we have religious radicals. In the U.S. we have different names for them, but the same anti-statist religious nuts are here too.

Nations help oppress people, not keep them free.