The ‘golden age’ for cybercrime attackers

Cyberwar, once the stuff of exaggerated Hollywood movie plots, doesn’t seem so implausible anymore. In response to an increase in cyber-attacks, NATO has assembled some of its brightest computer minds in a military base in Estonia to figure out how to keep dangerous hackers at bay. Guardian journalist Bobbie Johnson takes a trip to the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, or K5, as its commonly called, to get a handle on how serious the threat is, and what NATO is doing about it. The picture he paints is not a rosy one; according to U.S. Navy investigator and cybercrime specialist Kenneth Geers, rushing to connect the world with technology before security was in place means that “this is a golden age for attackers.”

Guardian