McAfee CSO Issues Warning On the 'New Cold War'

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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More Bad Omens from a Soothsayer

[eldavojohn]

"It seems the targets like Lockheed Martin are starting to get softened up. This isn't the end game; there is something bigger coming down the pipe and what we are seeing right now is a prelude to that. There could be a new warfare doctrine been created. 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."

Congratulations on the nebulous statements, sir. You rival politicians. Not a single one of these statements is falsifiable. Oh, you're the head of a company that sells remedies to this horrible future? You don't say ...

<Zoidberg> I'll take one "security" please! </Zoidberg>