On 12/21/14 11:58 PM, Julio Cesar Fort wrote: > I'm no expert in cyber war but since when a nation-state intrusion > involves dropping docs, exposing corporate secrets, leaking upcoming > movies in Bittorrent and changing the wallpapers of employees's > workstations? If this was really a government-sponsored attack, it > sets a very strange precedent that puts nation-state attacks in > parallel with hacktivists trying to prove a point.
Hacktivists are part of the threat model advanced by the US Executive. Asserting shared techniques between "[c]ommonly recognized cyber-aggressors" serves to validate that threat model. CRS (Dec 15) - "The 2013 Cybersecurity Executive Order: Overview and Considerations for Congress": http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42984.pdf > Cyberhacktivists > Cyberhacktivists are individuals who perform cyberattacks for pleasure, or > for philosophical or other nonmonetary reasons. Examples include someone who > attacks a technology system as a personal challenge (who might be termed a > “classic” hacker), and a "hacktivist" such as a member of the cyber-group > Anonymous who undertakes an attack for political reasons. The activities of > these groups can range from simple nuisance-related denial of service attacks > to disrupting government and private corporation business processes. gf -- Gregory Foster || gfos...@entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/ -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
