Video games, especially online video games, can expose players to cyberattacks. The attacks come both from unsafe behaviors by the players and from inadequate security in the servers hosting the games. Many games require players to have credit cards registered with the server so they can pay for special treatment or game artifacts, such as […]
Russian Propagandists Use Social Media to Inflict Cyber Harm on Americans
Most Americans are aware of Russia’s internet meddling with the reputation of candidates in the 2016 Presidential election. In the run up to election day in 2016, slanderous remarks were posted by trolls posing as opponents to Hillary Clinton. Other trolls posted character attacks on Presidential candidate Trump. Both sides urged readers to vehemently contradict […]
Decryption versus Track Record Issues
Actions by Facebook, Google and Apple have made it very difficult, perhaps impossible, for law enforcement and NSA to obtain the content of cell-phone calls and Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging. The moves were technically simple, but required a marketing decision that they would gain more in public approval for supporting privacy than they would lose through […]
Sony, North Korea, the US, and the Mistake of Hackers
Consumers were alerted to the cyber-attack on Sony evidently conducted by North Korea (NK) in return for a stoner movie called The Interview. As it stands, the US seems to be doing little and Sony has round-filed the offending movie. Sony executives had let their sharp tongues overrun their good judgment in emails that criticized […]
The New Dirty Work
A cyber-espionage system named TURLA has infected thousands of government computers across Europe and the U.S. TURLA is suspected to be a Russian system and probably a recent mutation of Agent BTZ, an espionage worm that infected some U.S. systems as early as 2006. As early as 2007, a virus named Careto or “Mask” was […]
Beware: The Threat of Cyber Taxes
This op-ed was written by Steve Pociask and is available in Real Clear Policy.
The Threat of Cyber-Attacks
The United States faces many threats around the world, but perhaps the newest threat facing the US is that posed by cyber threats, both foreign and domestic. It also might be the area where the US is most vulnerable, as the government currently seems wholly unprepared to deal with the various threats to our financial, […]
Cyber Hands in the Till
With real war brewing in the Middle East, the ongoing ugliness of Washington’s narcissism, and with Europe in deepening recession — do consumers really need to worry about security breaches at inept banks? Yes they do. Consumers know security breaches can burden them for years with legal difficulties and costs. Consumers have heard about types […]
