{"id":56338,"date":"2016-08-08T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=56338"},"modified":"2016-08-06T16:07:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T20:07:39","slug":"a-call-to-arms-against-the-hacker-hordes-theodore-kinni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/08\/08\/a-call-to-arms-against-the-hacker-hordes-theodore-kinni\/","title":{"rendered":"A call to arms against the hacker hordes [Theodore Kinni]"},"content":{"rendered":"

A call to arms against the hacker hordes<\/strong><\/a> — from sloanreview.mit.edu by Theodore Kinni<\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Attribution and retribution in the fight against cybercrime:<\/strong> Imagine being enthroned at the end of the long table in the C-suite. You\u2019ve got riches beyond imagination at your disposal; tens of thousands of vassals are toiling day and night for you. Your knights surround you, awaiting your command. And, at this very moment, some evil-minded jester with a computer and an Internet connection is breaching the castle walls.<\/p>\n

But wait, is that a war horn you hear in the distance? Yes, it\u2019s the lawyers from Steptoe & Johnson riding to your rescue. Enough, says partner Stewart Baker and trusty clerk Victoria Muth in an article for Brink<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear that building higher walls around our networks is a dead end. So is tighter scrutiny and control over what happens on the network,\u201d they write. \u201cGovernment is failing us\u2026, too.\u201d The solution? Fight back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attribution and retribution are the weapons in this counterattack. \u201cIt might mean building \u2018beacons\u2019 into documents so that when they are opened by attackers, they phone home to alert defenders that their information was compromised,\u201d suggest Baker and Muth. \u201cIt might mean using information provided by beacons to compromise the attackers\u2019 network and gather evidence as to the attackers\u2019 identities. It might mean stopping a DDOS attack by taking over the botnet, or by patching the vulnerability by which the botnet conscripted third-party machines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n

Machine Learning \u2013 New Weapon in the Hacking Wars?<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 — from by Ed Featherston
\n@CloudExpo #API #Cloud #BigData #MachineLearning<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

It feels like the barbarians are continually at the gate. We can’t seem to go more than a week before a new data breach is in the news, impacting potentially millions of individuals. The targets range from companies like Omni Hotels<\/a>, which had been breached affecting up to 50,000 customers whose personal and credit card information was exposed, to North Carolina State University<\/a>, where over 38,000 students’ personal information, including their SSNs, were at risk. As I mentioned in a recent blog \u2018Internet of Things and Big Data – who owns your data?<\/a>‘, we have been storing our personal and credit card information in a variety of systems, credit card companies, banks, online retailers, hotels – and that’s just naming a few. The information in those systems is more valuable than gold to the hackers. The hacker attacks are constant, creative, and changing frequently.<\/p>\n

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IBM is training Watson to hunt hackers<\/strong><\/a> — from washingtonpost.com by Andrea Peterson<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Watson, IBM’s computer brain,\u00a0has a lot of talents.\u00a0It mastered “Jeopardy!,”\u00a0it cooks<\/a>, and even tries to cure cancer<\/a>. But now, it\u2019s training for a new challenge: Hunting hackers.<\/p>\n

On [May10th, 2016], IBM Security announced a new cloud-based version of the cognitive technology, dubbed \u201cWatson for Cybersecurity.\u201d In the fall, IBM will be partnering with eight universities to help get Watson up to speed by flooding it with security reports and data.<\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nI try never to judge anyone, as I don’t want to be judged (<\/span>Matthew 7:1<\/a>).\u00a0 I try to extend grace, as I, myself, have nothing to stand on.<\/span><\/p>\n

That said, I struggle with how to deal with and view hackers.\u00a0 Daily, they wreak havoc on institutions and individuals throughout the globe — causing billions of dollars of damage. <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m amazed at the lack of punishment dealt out to hackers.<\/em> Our governments don’t step in, likely because they are all trying to hack each others’ systems as well. <\/span><\/p>\n

But the individual and group-based hackers out there have created an underground economy…where one wakes up and goes to the office and hacks away, all for making some coin — just like a normal job evidently.\u00a0 These hackers have smarts, know-how, and intelligence — but they have chosen to put it towards destructive purposes.\u00a0 And there doesn’t seem to be any fear involved in doing so.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, that needs to stop! There needs to be major punishment for those who hack. <\/span><\/p>\n

That’s why the articles above caught my eye. We need to fight back against the hackers. We need to release serious damage to their systems, networks, hardware and software — just as they do to ours.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t like to take this stance. I don’t like to even use the words “fight back.” But there is warfare going on — and fear needs to enter the equation for those who would resort to hacking.<\/span><\/p>\n

BTW, I’m even nervous about posting this item…as some hacker could come after my site. If so, I hope to be back up and running again soon. But if not…yet another one bites the dust.<\/span><\/p>\n

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