http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2015/09/next-wave-cyberattacks-wont-steal-data-theyll-change-it/120701/
By Patrick Tucker
DefenseOne.com
September 10, 2015
The big attacks that have been disclosed so far in 2015 involved the theft
of data, and a lot of it. Some 21 million personnel records were taken
from the Office of Personnel Management, likely by China, while 4,000
records, some with “sensitive” information, were stolen from the Joint
Chiefs civilian email system, a theft blamed on Russia.
But America’s top spies say the attacks that worry them don’t involve the
theft of data, but the direct manipulation of it, changing perceptions of
what is real and what is not.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper spelled out his concerns
in written testimony presented to the House Subcommittee on Intelligence
today.
“Most of the public discussion regarding cyber threats has focused on the
confidentiality and availability of information; cyber espionage
undermines confidentiality, whereas denial of service operations and data
deletion attacks undermine availability,” he wrote. “In the future,
however, we might also see more cyber operations that will change or
manipulate electronic information in order to compromise its integrity
(i.e., accuracy and reliability) instead of deleting it or disrupting
access to it.”
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