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Is Retaliation the Answer To Cyber Attacks?

Posted by Soulskill on from the with-your-switch-or-on-it dept.

coondoggie writes "Should revenge assaults be just another security tool large IT shops use to counter cyber attacks? It's a controversial idea, and the law generally frowns on cyber attacks in general, but at the Black Hat DC conference last week, some speakers took up the issue of whether and how organizations should counterattack against adversaries clearly using attack tools to break into and subvert corporate data security."

3 of 142 comments (clear)

  1. Bad idea by SHP · · Score: 5, Funny

    Makes about as much sense as conducting panty raids on shoplifters.

  2. Re:Infinite loop by JonySuede · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nobody see the problem?

    If (Cyberattack){

    Cyberattack();

    }

    there was a parenthesis pair missing.

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    Jehovah be praised, Oracle was not selected
  3. Re:New idea. by Geraden · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot a step...

    5. Profit!