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McAfee CSO Issues Warning On the 'New Cold War'

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-thought-global-warming-fixed-that dept.

angry tapir writes "The Cold War between the USA and the USSR may have ended in 1991, but a new conflict involving the same enemies has emerged on the digital frontier, according to McAfee's US chief security officer. Brett Wahlin, a former North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) counter intelligence agent, told Computerworld Australia that the RSA token hack in March this year – where the token information was used to infiltrate US defense contractor Lockheed Martin – used the same espionage tactics he encountered while serving as an agent from 1987 to 1991 with the US army for NATO."

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  1. nebulous and foggy by sourcerror · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I was in that world [NATO] for so long that when it looks and feels like a Cold War, there may be something else going down."

    So it's not Cold War, and summary title is wrong?
    May I suggest a new name? It's the Cloud War. Just to be even more nebulous.